Puppies are starting to leave and its not quite as crazy around here - a little easier to manage now. Between club activities and doing things around the house, we have been busy! Last Tuesday I turned on our 3 year old TV to listen to the noon news, and the TV went on, the screen flashed a bright lime green, then went black. That was the end of that! We decided we'd get a new TV over the weekend, which meant watching American Idol and Dancing with the Stars on the 12 inch TV from upstairs. Quite an adjustment to make!
I caught up on reading and played WoW most evenings because it was just too irritating watching such a small screen. It wasn't hooked up to the digital cable box, either, which meant no DVR and about 15 channels, so choices were definitely limited. Saturday afternoon Andy came over and helped move the old TV out (it must have weighed 150 pounds), then got everything set up with the cable, DVR, and DVD player. Thank goodness for sons who understand electronics! I think the HD looks kind of weird, almost too sharp and vibrant, but Marc loves it.

I've made it to level 49 in World of Warcraft and am definitely getting better at this. I downloaded The Burning Crusade last week, and can now visit new territory - cool!!

Cassie was spayed last week and after a quiet day or two, is now back to her sassy self. Hurray! One less to come into season and drive the boys nuts. March was a big birthday month - Cassie was 8 on the 10th, Dylan and Stormy were 6 on the 20th, and Biz was 8 on the 31st! The time sure does fly by.

Phoebe is almost a year old and loves to babysit the puppies. I got a couple of snapshots of her yesterday when I was able to get the pups out to play inbetween rain showers.

It's been very busy around here with 8 lively puppies! I can't believe they are already 7 weeks old. They were wormed and weighed this morning, with the boys being close to 18 pounds, and the girls between 13 and 15 pounds. A pretty hefty crew Tuesday afternoon they go for their first vet visit, vaccines, and microchip - it'll be interesting trying to get 8 of them in there at the same time. Fortunately all the techs are very happy to help carry in puppies

Trudy is sure she still needs to help them be fed. When they are outside in their pen, she brings dog biscuits over to them...but if they don't manage to pull them in and eat them, she goes ahead and eats them herself - wouldn't want to waste food! This morning she regugitated her breakfast next to the pen for them...she is so feral sometimes it's amazing. I was able to clean that up before any of the pups tried to dig out for it, although they had just eaten and I doubt they were hungry at all. She did manage to break them all out earlier in the week - I looked outside to check on things and saw 8 puppies running around, Trudy looking quite pleased with herself, and Smiley looking very confused and a bit concerned. He loves the puppies on the other side of the fence, but I'm not certain how thrilled he was to have them nipping at his privates .

Phoebe is a great nursemaid, she runs around their pen and keeps them running from side to side and wears them out so they sleep well all afternoon.

Yesterday Alyssa came to visit and socialize with the pups. They all had a great time, and I managed to get a couple of pretty good pictures.

Why is it that projects always take about three times longer than it seems they should? We spent what seemed like the entire weekend putting up a new pen for the puppies. Granted, it did include putting down sand and a patio block floor, but it just seemed that it took way too long for what should have been a simple project!

That said, now it is done and the puppies have a new run to play in, and they think its great fun! So do all the big dogs who are very curious about it and try to find a way in to get to those puppy toys

Here are a few pictures of the weekend project, LOL.



Looks simple enough, doesn't it? Frozen fingers didn't help when putting that hardware on!

Now the pups enjoying themselves.



And Momma Trudy, who moseyed in to check things out, but was ready to leave in about two minutes.

Duet

Yesterday was a stormy, rainy day - a good day to take an afternoon nap! Here are the pups taking their afternoon snooze, except for Kelly and Hootie, who were curious about that flash