Archive for the 'Animals' Category

Susan & Cash on Greater Boston

December 8, 2007 | Animals

Last Thursday, my puppy Cash and I were on Greater Boston with Emily Rooney. I was there to talk about the Bay Colony Cluster dog shows going on this weekend in Boston. Cash was there to look cute. Watch yourself to see how we did.

Panda Pumpkin

October 20, 2007 | Animals, Art

While my mom and I were enjoying Wicked in Boston, my husband was kind enough to carve me this Panda pumpkin from the stencils created by HP and the WWF.

And the winner is….

September 23, 2007 | Animals

Yesterday I showed my puppy in his very first match. It was his first time in a dog show setting and only his second time on a lead for any length of time. It was also the first time I was doing the showing.

Well the good news is, I didn’t screw him up too badly - we managed to win Best Puppy and then Best in Match.

Here he is: Blueberry’s Cold Cash, call name Cash, in a picture taken by someone at the match.

Doug’s View on Vermont

September 9, 2007 | Animals, Douglas Says, Travel, Vermont

Douglas is developing quite a photographic eye. Some of his pictures, I wonder, but others, I think wow, only 7 years old.

He loves his HP digital camera. It is easy to use and brand new when he got it — not a hand-me-down from mum or dad. That makes a difference, and I urge parents to consider that when getting their kids started with photography. I think it is better to get your child his or her own really simple, inexpensive camera, versus giving them one of your old ones which may have more options and buttons than they are ready for. Plus, all kids like it when they get it new, not hand-me-down.

The camera he has, courtesy of my client HP, the HP Photosmart M537, retails for about $130, and uses AA batteries. No need to even fuss about charging, just make sure you have a spare pair of batteries in your pocket or purse for when your kid says “my camera is out of juice.” Happened to us and I had to let him use mine for a few shots of poisonous frogs.

Here are some of the pictures he took during our stay in Vermont last month:

At Shelburne Museum

The boiler of the Ticonderoga

Statuary

At the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller mansion and gardens. He has quite an eye for flowers.

And finally a video of some fish at VINS

Pupdate

July 18, 2007 | Animals

For those of you jonesing for a pupdate, here is a video taken with my digital camera.You can hear the lens move, which is a bit distracting. I guess that explains why people still buy video cameras.

BTW, any YouTube experts out there — can you help me understand why I can’t get a preview of my video on the blog? Is it because I just left the file in raw .avi? Thanks Now we see the preview. Do we know why now and not before? No. And we really don’t care

Pupdate July 8

July 8, 2007 | Animals

The puppies are four weeks old, and we’ve started weaning them.

 Puppy bitch. She’s the adventurous one.  

 A puppy dog.

 Most definitely a puppy dog.

The week that was

June 24, 2007 | Animals, Douglas, Family

No easy way to say it. Last week, a good friend died unexpectedly and way too soon.  He was a good friend to Dave and me, and my brother in law Dick’s best friend since, well, forever. Rest in Peace Flip.

Dick, my brother in law, came up from Pittsburgh for the funeral. Here is a picture Douglas took of his Uncle and Dad.

In more lighthearted news (unless you are a field rodent or a chipmunk) our nine-year old bitch Music and her best feline friend Merlin have been casing a section of the fence. I rescued a chipmunk yesterday from a fate…. well, you know.

Edited in Picasa, image size reduced in irfanview.

Finally, for puppy fans, here’s a picture of the puppy bitch at two weeks.

 

Their eyes are open and they should be walking, albeit like drunken sailors, within the next few days.

Tags: dogs, puppies, Scottish Terrier

Pupdate, June 18

June 18, 2007 | Animals

Last week was pretty much work and puppies. All are doing well and have doubled their birthweight.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions for eliminating “blue eye?”

Puppies

June 11, 2007 | Animals

Readers of my business blog Marketing Roadmaps know by now that I breed and show Scottish Terriers. Our three-year old bitch Reva had her second litter on Friday night. Mom and pups doing fine.