Thanksgiving!

Our mostest favoritest holiday of the year!

This year I will be heading to Canada where John's sister and her family will meet up with us at John's mother's house in Stratford. The kids really enjoy seeing each other, I cook the meal, and the dogs get to go to the best dog park ever. They have sooo much fun at the park it makes us feel great.

Our dogs are very social, all labs are really, they have one mood, happy. My pooches love it when dogs come to visit. They don't feel territorial or threatened at all. Ranger has so much fun being a host, you can just see it in him, and Skyler attaches easily to a new best buddy.

This weekend our friends brought over their new dog, Bella. Bella lives up to her name, a sweet beautiful little chow.


Bella had to contend with a great deal of sniffing but she held her own with the big rumpusing boys. As Ranger said afterward in his blase matter-of-fact way, "Yup, she digs me. All chicks do."

There was a corgi up in Maine that adored Ranger and he would come by our place looking for him, and just follow him around. But it all stopped at the dock when Ranger would go in swimming and the corgi couldn't swim. Then one day Ranger left the property, as usual--he "ranges", and John headed to the boat launch looking for him. As he neared it he could see all these Mainers laughing their heads off and pointing out in the lake. John asked what was going on? "Darndest thing", a man replied, "there's a yellow lab teaching a corgi how to swim!" And he was. Darned little corgi was tipping port and starboard but he was determined to learn; with Ranger swimming around him.

If any of our visitors to Maine have dogs that are ok with cats, we tell them to bring them, the dogs all have a blast up at the lake.

And when dogs are having a blast, as when kids are having a blast, it makes me really happy.

Lauren