Step One: Get a dog.
Step Two: Walk the dog.
We moved in to this house 4.5 years ago. We immediately made friends with the across-the-road neighbours, whose kids are the same age as ours and go to the same school. We are casually friendly with the old guy to the left who lives with his mom [...]
Archive for February, 2007
How to meet your neighbours
Posted in dogs, pets on February 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Sock joy, friend joy
Posted in knitting on February 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I am loving the sock knitting. Small, portable, fast. I kept sticking the half-made part on my foot to admire it. I finished the first one last night. This is what it looks like:
Of course, I promptly put it on and took it for a test drive (test walk?). It wasn’t comfortable. Despite using soft [...]
The other shoe drops
Posted in dogs, doodles, knitting, pets on February 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
but at least it’ll have a nice sock in it!*
Jasper is showing his true doggy colours. He’s turned into a barky dog. He also loves to chew wood and paper. He has gone through a few toilet paper rolls already. I’ve had to spray bitter apple on the legs of our tables and the corner [...]
The smartest dog ever; and socks
Posted in dogs, doodles, knitting, pets on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Jasper really is brilliant. He learned his name in about a day, and it took three runs of holding a treat over his head until he sat while saying “Sit” to teach him to sit on command. Last weekend, we went for a nice long snowshoe through the woods and he came along off-leash. We’d [...]
Doggy bloggy
Posted in dogs, doodles, pets on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Because I don’t seem to be talking about anything else. It really is like having another child.
We’ve discovered Jasper adores bananas. He went nuts (bananas?) over Boo while she was eating one, so we gave him a taste. He has never shown such excitement. I’ll have to try to find dried banana chips – might [...]
A mammal-raising revelation
Posted in dogs, doodles, parenting on February 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Turns out those pet-training manuals are as useful as the children-training ones. (Okay, ‘children-raising’ ones.) I bought that puppy several different recommended chew toys – kong-type things. He ignores them completely. I bought him a rope, which he finds mildly amusing. But all he really wants is soft things – socks, stuffed animals, mittens.
The training [...]
Happy Hallmark holiday
Posted in dogs, doodles on February 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I think it was the second year together that I gave J the best Valentine’s Day gift he ever got: I told him not to worry about ever getting me a Valentine’s Day gift again. Sure, I like flowers or chocolate and expressions of affection, but I realized quickly that that just isn’t the kind [...]
Just doodling along
Posted in dogs, pets on February 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Please consider the following to be an advertisement for Golden Doodles:
Jasper is the calmest, friendliest, most well-behaved, loving puppy I’ve ever met. He doesn’t bark, jump up on people or shed. He sleeps all night in his crate without a peep of protest. He smushes his head against people’s legs for love. The biggest complaint [...]
New Baby
Posted in dogs, doodles, pets on February 9, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Introducing Jasper, who is 31 lbs and 4.5 months old. He is a golden retriever/poodle cross, commonly known as a doodle. He arrived yesterday and has been a complete angel, except for the car sickness that almost got him named Ralph.
breastfeeding continued
Posted in breastfeeding, parenting, pregnancy on February 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I realize I never followed up on my weaning post with my breastfeeding post. Given the response to my list of places I’ve nursed babies, and the weaning post, clearly I should have started blogging when I was still nursing a baby. Truth is, I nursed for so long, I can’t quite believe my breasts [...]
