April - Happy Birthday to Kimberlite Pups

Happy 4nd birthday to Q Litter - born April 13.


Happy Birthday  to O Litter - you are all 8 years old. The entire litter is still alive and well.  Born April 24.

Happy 9th birthday to Joey from the N litter, born today.

April 28th is the 11th birthday of I litter. To the best of my knowledge 2 remain from that litter of 10.

Hugs and belly rubs to all - Love Favourite Mommy :-)

Marilyn Bernroe

Inspired by Andy Warhol - I call this piece Marilyn Bernroe

How To Reduce the Junk in Your Inbox

I know...what 3 posts in 1 day after 2 years of non-activity!

Interestingly, I quit facebook today (cold turkey - probably why there are 3 posts here).  But what is more surprising, my inbox is quiet.

For love of my sanity - won't someone please send me an email!

Art by Tripz

Since I've retired from breeding berners, I've taken up painting and working with mixed media.  I had to find something to occupy my time.

It's Been Two Years - Hello Again

Hello!

It's been two years since I've blogged and I'm hoping that I will get back into it.  Today, I deactivated my facebook account.  That thing is far too addictive and I wanted to free myself.

What has happened since I last blogged here:

My boyfriend Bogart passed away in May 2012.

Old Puddy passed away in Oct. 2012

I am down to two berners - Lola and Sparkle and 4 kitties:  Lil' Puddy, Baby Puddy, Mr. Slinky and Pepe.

Winter is never-ending here.

Anyway - I hope to get starting doing some blogging again.

No Puppies

Another disappointment - Lola is not pregnant.  I was sure I could feel one puppy, but I guess it was just gas.  We do not have any future breeding plans.  I guess I'll be in the puppy market myself - looking for a new boy. 

I wish I had better news.  I hope all who were waiting for a puppy will find their little sweeties soon.  I'll certainly keep my ear to the ground if I hear of any upcoming litters.

Great Aunt Deb

I became a Great Aunt on May 16 at 3:15 pm.  My niece Jenny gave birth to her daughter, Colombe.  What a wonderful day.  I managed to drive to Yorkton, SK yesterday to suprise Jen, new dad Neil and new Gramma Dar (I thought I'd be busy with pups).  Darlene and I ended up driving to Regina that day to deliever the stem cell blood to the airport so it could be shipped to Vancouver.  Fedex SCREWED UP and did not pick up the package for delivery despite arrangements made the day before.  FedEX picked up someone else's stem cell blood instead.  Makes you go hmmmm - wonder if that blood was delivered to the right place?  This stem cell blood is precious and time sensitive and for FedEX to screw up like that (and it's expensive - parents pay around $2,500 to get the blood stored).  Shame on you FedEX.

Anyway - Gramma Dar and Great Aunt Deb saved the day and delivered the package to Regina.  It was quite the journey.  We had problems finding the aiport (not great signage Regina). Then trying to find Air Canada Cargo...sheesh.  The signs at the aiport did not point to the terminal.  However, the staff at Air Canada Cargo were top notch.  They have done this shipping of stem cell blood so many times.  Thank you!

And after that, we were headed back to Yorkton (2 hour drive) and managed to get lost.  Found ourselves headed to Winnipeg.  Well, we did get back on course and arrived back in Yorkton around 8:45 pm.  Had a great dinner at the York Steak House and then got back to our hotel and watched a movie on Netflix.