They are little doggies now. Running around, eating and sleeping and getting into all sorts of mischief! I’m simply having the time of my life with them. So without further comment I am thrilled to present a new video of my darlings.
Pink = Angelika
Blue = Arnie
Green = Anneliese
Red = Anja
Yellow = Anita
I was lying in bed this morning, having just woken up from a restless night sleep, when I suddenly had a wonderful idea! Yes, this was the idea to end all idea’s, and it’s implementation would ease my life considerably.
I got up and got my cane and hobbled out to the puppy room. As I passed the coffee pot I flipped it on. I picked up a puppy and carried it into our living room where I have a playpen set up.
I plopped it into the playpen and went back for another pup. After I had all 5 pups in the playpen, I set a dish of their food in there and left them.
I went back to the puppy room and rolled up the well used newspapers, swept the floor and then washed it. Then I lay down fresh newspapers, fresh water and a dozen new puppy rawhide bones.
By this time the puppies were all done with their breakfast and I was able to bring each one back to the puppy room, where they soon discovered the rawhides! Each pup got their own bone and for the next 2 hours we had peace and quiet.
I drank my coffee, ate my breakfast and even read my email. Yes, I am a genius!
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Broken
Hubby had to have both of his knees replaced last year because they were essentially, “broken”. Now, after many months of therapy, he is back to his old self, and able to walk and ski and do all that he could before. This picture was taken after the second knee was replaced. He was one very happy surgical patient!
I am flexible. I had begun to think that I wasn’t during my first month at the health club. However, in the last week I have learned that I am not strong, but I am definitely flexible.
You see, since I hurt my knee I have still had to clean and maintain the puppy room. This means cleaning up their poop and wet newspapers. How do I do that when I can’t bed my knee? I bend at my waist, that’s how!
I wasn’t certain I still could move like that. After all, it’s been years since I actually had to do that. Although I have the dachshunds, I have always had the ability to bend my knees in order to pick them up. Bending at the waist? Well, not so much.
Nothing will get you bending faster than 5 puppies about to leap into their own poop!
I get up each morning and hobble out to the puppy room. I am always equipped with a large kitchen garbage bag, a pooper scooper and a bucket and mop!
I’ve got this whole, clean up after the long night thing, down to a science, but you have to move fast. Fast is something that, no matter how hard I try, is simply not possible when I’m dealing with a painful knee. Moderately fast is about all I can do.
I clean up, put down fresh newspaper (which, of course, is fouled quickly), and then I feed my little munchkins. I do this, by once again bending from the waist, and placing their dish on the floor.
Then I make coffee.
Yes, even more amazing than the fact that I am able to bend from the waist and accomplish so much on the floor is, I do it all before I have my first cup of coffee.
Yes, I know. I rock!
My Favorite Perfect Lunch
1. Lettuce. Shredded into bite size pieces.
2. Cucumber. Peeled and sliced into bite size chunks.
3. 2 slices of deli roast beef or deli turkey, rolled up and sliced.
4. 1 ounce of cheddar cheese cut into match sticks.
5. 1 Roma tomato cut into bite size pieces.
6. 1 wedge of green pepper cut into match sticks.
7. 1/2 a stalk of celery sliced thinly
8. Red salad onion, sliced thin. As much or as little as you’d like.
9. 6-8 large Calamata olives. (the ones with pits are the best.)
10. Low Carb. Ranch dressing drizzled over the top.
11. One large glass of water with your meal.
12. A cup of hot tea afterwards
13. A small dish of sugar free Jell-O.
I have now graduated to a cane. Ah yes., a cane. At first I thought that if Hugh Laurie can do it, then so can I, but I soon found that using a cane successfully truly was a challenge. Pain is a great motivator though and I soon found my rhythm and was getting around pretty well. So what’s the problem? I did too much. By noon I could feel my knee really hurting, and tonight, well, not so good.
A good friend of mine came to spend time with the babies today and we took them out and played with them. I am watching the pups carefully these days as I am trying to evaluate which of the two female pups would be best for our family. Anneliese is a strong, energetic pup, with a sweet nature and endless amounts of devotion. She is also hysterically funny.
Anita is a sweet, pup, slightly less energetic, but who loves to play with Greta. I have also noticed that she will go up to check out Fritz, but when he gets upset, she will back off and give him his personal space. She loves to curl up in your lap and she is a kisser. She loves to be held and knows her name.
In fact all the pups seem to know their names. I’m surprised by this, but pleasantly so. They also come running to the door when they hear the can opener grinding, or when they hear me open my bedroom door in the morning.
Life is so good right now, despite my knee. Every day is full of wonder as I watch my babies grow and change. Yes, life if good!
I had Anita out today, to play quite a bit. She is a real hoot. Greta was playing with her and the two of them rolled around, chased each other and had so much fun. I did too. I love watching Greta play with one of her babies. As I sat there watching, it sort of dawned on me, that although Greta is very good with all her babies and is a wonderful Mother, she actually acts like a puppy herself with Anita. Had I been more flexible I would have jumped up and gotten the video camera and would be boring you with a mother/daughter video.
However, I couldn’t do that, so I sat back and just watched. Anita didn’t chase Uncle Fritz, and she doesn’t bark like her sister, and she is happy to just play quietly. Mmmmmm……could this be the puppy I should keep? I have said that I need to keep the puppy that is the best fit for our family and perhaps Anita is it. Mmmmmm….stay tuned.
For anyone wondering, Uncle Fritz is doing better accepting the pups. At least he did okay with Anita this morning. By this I don’t mean to say he was happily playing with her, but after she went back to the puppy room, he went and smelled everywhere that she had been and was accepting of it. Mmmmmm, maybe Anita is the one?
It was VERY cold here today. I think the highest the temperature got was about 10 degrees F. The winds were also quite strong, at 42 miles an hour. I hope winter is making a brief stop in so we know she still exists, and hen leaves just as quickly. Perhaps if I were in better shape and my knee wasn’t wracked up I would want more snow and more cold, bug for now, I would be happy if it were spring.
I was actually productive today. I refuse to allow this silly knee to keep me down. I did three loads of laundry, thoroughly cleaned the puppy room and cooked three meals! I’m quite proud. The puppy room is never easy as we take the pups out, put them into a children’s playpen and then literally take everything out of the room, swab the decks and put things back before putting the puppies back into their room. But we got it done and now the entire house smells fresh!
It’s hard to believe that the babies are now 8 weeks old! Bernie’s owner’s came up today to visit and we talked about and evaluated each pup.
Three of our pups have homes. Good homes, and we are thrilled with that. Anja is going to Paul and Stephanie in the next town to us, Angelika is going to Nancy and her husband in New York State and Arnie is going to Leslie and her family in Upstate New York. Yes, it makes me happy that they have found good homes where they will be loved and cherished.
It appears that Anneliese will be the newest member of our family, but since we haven’t found a home yet for Anita, we will count her as a family member. Both of these girls are beautiful and sweet and I adore them. We had the two of them out playing in the family room for quite some time and they had a ball. I wish you could have seen them running around playing.
The neatest thing is that they seem to know their names and they come when you call them. They also wag their tails with happiness.
It’s so nice to have such a great litter of happy, healthy and beautiful puppies.
It’s amazing how one puppy will crack you up. Recently, it has been Anneliese. She seems to find funny positions to get into, funny sounds to make and funny places to fall asleep. She makes me laugh. As you can see in the last photo she is asleep with all the others, but her leg is hanging off the little sofa in a funny way. as she is half on the sofa and half on the little doggy bed. Too, too funny.
Life is good when you have a pack of puppies around!
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Gross
Some people will think that this is gross because of the blood, but this is a puppy being born, Anja, in fact. So although the picture shows a little blood and gore, and is a tad gross, to me it is beautiful because it is one of my grand puppies!
