Home with Mats

We are home!

Two well-timed breedings for Daisy with a delightful boy. I love him — a wonderful match for Daisy. Everything crossed.

I do not reveal stud dogs until I have a confirmed pregnancy but suffice it to say that I am really excited about both potential litters. REALLY excited. And I am grateful to the stud dog owners who were willing to work together to make the breedings happen. Quality dogs bred and owned by quality people — can’t get better than that.

And now we practice that challenging virtue of patience.

Unlike humans, we cannot tell if a dog is pregnant until she is almost halfway through her pregnancy. If Claire is pregnant, her puppies will be due on January 21 and if Daisy is pregnant, her babies will arrive a week later (January 28). We will know the status of the potential L and M Litters by Christmas.

One thing I did on the way home today was to meet Dear Son-in-Law to pick up my new floor mats.

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Self-care matters and especially during a Pandemic Winter. The mats are now covering most of our large living room. I needed a non-slip surface to train things like scent articles and so Elizabethanne and I did a mat order together since she was doing her basement.

Dear Daughter and Dear Dear Son-in-Law picked the mats up from her in Salt Lake City and then Dear Son-in-Law met me today as I took the long way home from Boise, saving me hours of driving to get those mats. He works nights and so we met very early and I was home by 1:00 pm.

Of course, I immediately put down the mats.

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The living room is big — and it also has a treadmill and my Peloton bike…

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It isn’t very fashionable but it will all help as we march through the dark winter in a pandemic.

What are you doing to make sure you will be okay through the next few months?

Remember — You Matter. And so do what you need to do to be okay, even if it means there is no furniture in your living room.

Furniture is so over-rated. Self-care, on the other hand, is essential.

A Weekend in Boise, Improvised

I am in Boise for Daisy’s adventures but since I have had contact with humans through the veterinarian visits, I cannot see the family. Sigh. I will be so glad when this pandemic is done — for so many reasons.

And so we improvised.

When Galen was growing up, we established a tradition of getting cocoa and then driving around to look at Christmas lights — just the two of us. Last night we did a modified version — his little family in one car and me in my car. Connected through our phones/bluetooth/speakers, we did the drive-up at Starbucks for the requisite beverages and then did a caravan looking at lights — and talking.

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Pandemic Life requires flexibility and creativity. We can bemoan what is lost AND come up with ideas to make the best of it. All feelings and experiences have value. I wish I could hugs those kids AND it was great fun.

I made sure to get a hotel room near an exit and one that was empty the night before my arrival. It has a kitchen, and I brought my sanitizing wipes and my own bedding, which was probably overkill but it also prevents worry about dog hair on their sheets. Pozy and Daisy are along for this trip…

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I hope you have a wonderful Sunday, improvising as necessary to make it so.

Quick Note

Rosebud is already enjoying the holidays — maybe too much…

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We left our house at about 4:30 a.m. today in order to make Daisy’s date.

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All went well.

One more rendezvous tomorrow and then we are done with this stretch of progesterone/breeding, and we sit tight and wait to see what happens.

I keep thinking it is Monday but it isn’t — and so Happy Saturday!