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Midnight is getting bigger!

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When we first got our puppy, Midnight, in November she was exactly three months old and she was a skinny little thing. She doesn’t look that skinny in the above photo, but believe me she was very sick and she was much too thin.

She’s grown quite a bit in the 7 weeks that we’ve had her. I think she’s going to be on the small side for a Lab as she only weighs 20 pounds right now, but she’s apparently healthy again and growing and gaining weight as each day goes by.

Just to show you how much she’s grown. I placed her doggy bed on her favorite chair last night. We’d taken her doggy bed away a month ago or so when she started having diarrhea while in her crate and well … she also chewed a hole in her bed. Darn those labs and their need to chew! So last night was the first time she’d used her doggy bed in quite a while.

As you can see she’s grown a lot. She pretty much takes up the whole doggy bed when she lies in it now. Good thing I just bought her a new one eh? She won’t get to use the new one for a couple of months though. I’d like to wait until she’s finished teething or at least just about done finished teething as I’m hoping her chewing will have slowed down or at the very least all the new adult teeth she’ll have won’t be so sharp and damaging!

Oh and she’s definitely not skinny anymore. I think she’s just right for her size.





Losing some weight

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Well it looks like I won’t have to go on a formal diet or a diet plan like slimquick after all. Ever since we got our puppy in November my activity level has gone way up!

I’d gained a bit of weight due to being on prednisone and because I’ve been in so much pain over the last two years that I just haven’t been very active at all. Actually as time went on I became less and less active. You might have called me a couch potato.

Just to show you how inactive I must have become … When we’d only had our puppy, who’s very very active, for three weeks I went to see my pain doctor. I think that was December 15th or so. She weighs me every time I see her much to my dismay! Even if I hadn’t been gain weight I’d still have hated being weighed every visit. Well I was pleased to see that I’d lost 10lb according to her scale.

We’ve had our puppy for just under two months now and I’ve lost 25 lb. It won’t take much longer for me to be back in shape!

One of the reasons we got the puppy was to keep me company and to get me a little more motivated to exercise. I’d wanted to get more active but when you are always in pain it’s very hard to will yourself to go out for a walk or even to go out in the garden to look at your flowers let alone work in the garden. However, when you have a dog, especially a puppy, you must get moving. Puppies need to go outside about ten times a day when they are young. Of course now that Midnight is 4.5 months old and has some bladder control she’s not going out that often anymore, but we are talking longer walks. It’s good for both of us.

If you have a young pet at home did you notice that you lost a bit of weight or started to get in better shape as a result of all the extra walks you were doing?

Just a nice lazy day

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Chris and I are just having a very lazy Saturday.

Actually this is the first weekend in a while that we’re both home. The last two weekends Chris went to Brantford to help out with things at his parents and to visit with his brother that was up from Chicago (last weekend).

We both slept in, much to our puppies disappointment. However we both needed it. She’s totally changed both our schedules since we got her and this was the first time we’ve both slept in since she’s been with us. So she ate her breakfast a little late this morning. That’s ok.

Since the weather was fairly nice and there’s no snow on the ground Chris went out and raked the leaves that had blown onto the lawn. So now our garden beds have a little extra winter protection and the yard looks so much nicer. The dishes and laundry also got done.

Wait … didn’t I say it was a lazy Saturday … hmmm seems we got a bit more accomplished than I thought. Still it’s felt kind of lazy as we’ve just been sitting back for the last few hours watching shows that we taped on the PVR.

Even our puppy’s been having a lazy day. She was in her crate a bit longer than normal today since we both slept in and she was in her crate when some of the yard and house work were done as well. After that we had a good play session … A play session with the puppy usually consists of playing ball with her for oh maybe two or three hours!

I guess we tired her out or she’s picking up on our “just relax” mood because she fell asleep on the couch at 9 pm which is much earlier than normal. She just woke up a few minutes ago and wanted to go outside to do her business and now she’s on the lazyboy chair looking like she’s about to fall asleep again. Maybe last nights puppy training class wore her out.

How was your Saturday?

Donate your car to Car Angel

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I was just saying on my other blog My World that I think Chris and I will be getting a new car in the spring or early summer. Our car is 12 years old! It’s still in pretty good shape and barely has any rust (nothing noticeable) and drives well … but I think maybe we should start looking for a new car before the old one begins acting up.

I don’t think we’d get much money for trading in our old car. I could be wrong, but considering it’s age I doubt it. Too bad there isn’t a branch of Car Angel here in Canada or we’d consider perhaps donating our car.

If you are in the US and perhaps have a car that you don’t use or one that you’re thinking of replacing you should think about donating it to Car Angel. It’s like donating to charity. When people choose to donate car, boats, trailers, RV’s or other vehicles to Car Angel they use the money they’ve raised to make videos for kids and teens, and assist single mothers, the homeless, orphans and other worth while causes.

I know it’s probably a little unusual to think about donating a car to charity but people donate money all the time to worthwhile causes and a vehicle donation is just like donating money. The folks at Car Angel will even arrange to have your car picked up and they’ll do the paper work so that you’ll get an IRS tax deduction too.

As I said earlier Car Angel makes videos for kids and teens and they’ve given away over 2.4 million videos so far. Here’s an example of one of their videos:

My niece took in a nice haul at her shower

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Last Sunday I went to my brothers house in Aurora for my niece’s baby shower.

Earlier in the week I’d gone out shopping with Chris to pick up something on her baby gift registry. Instead of getting just one item on her list I got three, plus one extra gift. I couldn’t help myself! Plus it didn’t hurt that everything I bought had an extra 20% off either!

I got her and Eddie Bauer diaper bag, a Jolly Jumper baby carrier, a soother pin with a cute little duck on it and a teething ring that can be put in the freezer.

A lot of people turned out for the shower and she got a lot of gifts. She did really well! We all passed each gift around and some of the things were so very nice.

My sister and her daughter were also at the shower so I got a ride back to the subway with them. Well, actually my nieces boyfriend came to pick us up in his parents Charger. I didn’t realize how much that car had changed over the years!

I remember when I was in high school one of my good friends boyfriends had a Dodge Charger. I think it was a 1970 or ’72 or something and that was quite the car! The newer Charger that my nieces boyfriend was driving looked like a toy car compared to the old Chargers that I remember. It was a nice ride though. Very smooth.

I’d say it almost looked like a kit car. Maybe I got that impression because it had billet grilles, fancy hubcabs and other add ons. I guess my nieces boyfriends father must be a car enthusiast.

It was great to see some of my family and my niece who’s expecting. She looked great. She due near the end of February and it looks like they are having a little girl.

I’m pretty sure when the babies born that I’ll be buying more gifts. That babies going to be spoiled!

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