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New baby in the family soon

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I heard from my niece yesterday. She was writing up all her thank you cards for all of the baby gifts she received at her baby shower a week ago. She said that the baby room and one of their spare rooms are just filled with things for the baby! A good portion of which are things that they got as gifts.

She did well!

I can’t wait for the baby to be born. She due February 22nd. I was just thinking that it would be nice if she had her baby on the 18th though as that is our new Statutory holiday here in Ontario. The new holiday is called Family Day so I figured it would be fitting if she had her little girl that day. Of course this is her first baby so it will probably be late.





We can travel with our puppy now

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I just realized that now that our puppy has all of her shots we can take her not just to the park, but over the boarder to the US soon!

She finished her shots last Monday so she should have built up immunity and recovered fully from her shots by this weekend. Yeah … we can go to the park or maybe to the beaches for the first time with our puppy! Cool. Oh and she also had her rabies shot too.

Apparently if we want to bring her with us to the States we should have proof of rabies vaccination and proof of age. I guess it’s a good thing that we got her registration certificate for the Canadian Kennel Club as well this week. The certificate lists her parents names – Buck Shot Buck is the Sire – good name, her tattoo numbers, her CKC registration number, our names and her date of birth.

So now if we want to say visit Niagara Falls and then slip over to the US side with our dog we can. Heck, maybe we’ll do a road trip vacation in a few months. I’ve always wanted to go to Carolina’s Outer Banks. Several of our friends have been there and they say it’s a lovely vacation area. It’s a long drive, but not too bad. We just need to make time for a road trip. They do take longer than flying to a vacation spot after all.

Snow covered pine branches

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Mugo pine branch covered in snow

This is a photo of a dwarf Mugo pine branch that’s been dusted in snow. I took this photo a couple of weeks ago after a big snow storm came through town.

When we bought our house it came with three dwarf pines in large barrel planters at the front of the house. The planters are actually in the walkway between our house and our neighbors. Usually I decorate the pines each winter with clear LED lights and tiny red bows on some of the branches and they look quite lovely. I didn’t decorate them this year for the holidays, but that snowfall added a beautiful touch.

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Melting old snow sure is messy!

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Remember that storm that I said we had two weeks ago? Well I took this photo two weeks ago Sunday in the evening once most of the snow had finished falling. Pretty messy huh?

That’s our car in the foreground on the right in the driveway, and our neighbors car on the street surrounded by a mountain of snow.

We’ve had temperatures around freezing or just above freezing mostly since that time so the snow’s been melting slowly. We’ve even had some rain and a thunder storm or two as well. Imagine, thunder in December! Weird. Very weird.

Since we haven’t had much new snow, only a dusting, the melting piles of snow are kind of dirty from car exhaust and look quite yucky. Midnight, our puppy tends to do some of her business on our front lawn so our snow is starting to have a bit of a yellow tinge to it as well. Do you know how hard it is to keep a puppy from eating dirty snow that’s on the lawn or in the snow banks we pass on our walks!

Christmas with the in-laws!

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How is everyone on this lovely Christmas Eve?

We’re having a quite Christmas here this year. I don’t think we’ve celebrated Christmas on Christmas day with Chris’ family in years! It’s always a day or two before Christmas or the following weekend. It seems that no one can manage to get together on Christmas day for some reason.

When my parents were around we had this problem too of course, but we tried to alternate Christmases between the families.

Anyway … Yesterday we went to Brantford to have Christmas with Chris’ parents and his two sisters, their spouses and their kids.

It didn’t quite work out that way though.

Chris’ younger sister had been to Sarnia the night before seeing friends and as they returned home they discovered that their young daughter was very sick so they ended up in a walk in clinic. My niece has strep throat so bad she won’t even drink any liquids! I don’t envy my sister in law at all today!

Chris’ older sister and her husband didn’t make it either! It turned out that she had a cold or the flu and since they are going to Hawaii on Christmas day she wanted to rest and get better before their flight.

So as it turned out it was just Chris and I, Chris’ parents and one of his aunts.

Chris nephew was in the basement with a friend while we were visiting, but for some reason he didn’t want to eat dinner … so that dinner for 12 or 13 people ended up being for only 5!

So that was Christmas with the in-laws.

Oh and I’ve said before that my mother in law can’t really cook … I think she said she cooked the turkey for 10 hours. It was good but it was very dry.

We brought Midnight along for the day so she could meet the family. She was afraid to go in the house when we first go there! I coaxed her in and then we kept her on her leash for a while as we led her around the main floor showing her the house and introducing her to the in-laws. She did pretty good while she was there. No accidents (actually she hasn’t had an accident for close to a week so she might be housetrained!) and she didn’t jump on people too much. Over all I’d say it was a good experience for the puppy. (and us)

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