We received these photos a couple of weeks ago from northern Minnesota.  9 month old Mavis is looking stunning. Her person wrote, “The calendar says it’s just about spring, but it’s a winter wonderland here. The dogs are enjoying the snow.  Have her [Mavis] enrolled in a foundation agility class and she is a rock star. Until they are older we don’t jump them. Work on contacts, the teeter, dog walk, ramp and tunnels.  The word I use for the teeter is bang as it makes a loud noise.  The instructor calls Mavis ‘Big bang’ as she fearlessly slams it down.”

(For those of you with Mavis’ sisters, you might appreciate knowing that Mavis’ began her first heat cycle.)

I came across photos of growing puppies from last summer’s litter that I realized I received but never got posted.  Here are Remmie (number 1) and Croix (number 12) with their people, living wonderful lives in the midwest.  The first two below are Remmie:

The next two are Croix (below)

It warms our hearts to see them living well-loved and active lives.  Apologies that it took me a couple months to get them posted!

Unbelievably mild weather allowed us to open up windows and doors yesterday and imagine that spring is imminent, even though we know we could get a dumping of snow before spring really arrives.  I spent some time out on our screened porch yesterday and captured this “panorama” photo using my phone and then drank it all in – the view, the sounds of migrating birds, the mild air and those fresh smells that come with the earth waking up.

Xupe, Finley and Chev were out there with me and wound up in the lower left corner of the photo. They could care less about weather – snow, mud, cold, warm, rain, wind –  they’re all good as long as they can get out there in it.