Happy Snow Day!!!!

This morning I woke up singing the "Snow" song from White Christmas. Well, guess what!?! I opened the curtains and it had snowed! Yipee! Hilde loves the snow. Since we don't have a fenced in yard and we don't like her on the tie out without us outside with her, sometimes she goes to the "puppy play pen". Ok it is the deck. But it lets her be outside safely.

She really does like it out there.

Snooooow- I want to wash my paws, my face and fur with snow....

Thanksgiving part 2

Here are some more pictures from Thanksgiving. Here are Hilde and Britta sharing Hilde's bed nicely.


Hilde has this funny little yawn. Her tongue curls up when she is almost done yawning.

These pictures are of Hilde eating her Thanksgiving dinner. It was the first time she ever had wet food. She thought it was SPLENDID!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here is the first installment of Hilde's Thanksgiving fun. She spent the whole afternoon playing with her furry cousin Britta. Today (the next day) she is very tired.

Look at Hilde share her bed so nicely!

Hilde and Britta like to snuggle.

Here are Hilde and Britta looking at something fun out the window.

This is when they were tired out. I promise there was WAY more wrestling and rough-housing then these pictures would have you believe.

Lunch time walkies

Hilde and I go for a walk every day over my lunch time. Most days Hilde likes to take a stick home. Today she decided this would be the "stick du jour".

After about five minutes of wrestling with her "stick" Hilde decided it was too much to handle and let it be.

Happy Winter!!!

Here is Hilde being a winter pup. Too bad there isn't some snow to complete the picture.


With winter comes fur! Hilde's fluffy, fancy fur is really growing in. In this picture you can really see her whole coat and lots of her fancy tail.

Here you can see Hilde's tail and her fancy pants.

Silly little pooch

Hilde likes to get in the shower. She also likes to put her head under the bathtub faucet and play in the water. She did that the other day and the back of her head got wet. The result was one little crazy curl in the back of her head. She looks like Dennis the Menace. Come to think of it sometimes she acts like him!

Hilde is SO tired!

We had a very busy weekend. Tired of the house being unorganized and a bit untidy I imposed fall/winter cleaning and it lasted all weekend. We cleaned windows, closets, drawers.... Nothing was safe. Happily for Hilde we were home all weekend and the breaks we did take were to entertain her. She got to play outside with her friend Coal a lot. They love to wrestle and run all over Coal's yard. We also went for quite a few very long walks. After being in the house working some fresh air was a welcome respite. On Sunday my Dad came over- he is the president of the farm puppy fan club. My Dad might spoil Hilde more than we do. As an added bonus Serena came over while my Dad was here. One of Hilde's favorite girls is Serena. So she had lots of play time and lots of visits this weekend. Below are some pictures from the snowy last weekend and beginning of the week. We got a little more snow up by our house then most of the metro.



Here is such a beautiful picture of Hilde. She looks like a picture book pup.



Hilde sees about 6-7 deer in the woods. If you look closely you can see one or two in the picture. She was very intent on watching them.

More puppies in the neighborhood and SNOW!!!

We had a little snow earlier this month, but last night we got some snow that stuck. That is great news for Hilde! She loves it! This morning she took her first step onto the snow and stopped in her tracks. She looked back at me, like "what in the world is this?" She put her nose in it and made tiny snowballs. She thought it was just great.



Here is Hilde checking out the snow. What is in there?



Here is one of Hilde's favorite friends, Coal. I let her play off leash with Coal and they ran around and slipped and slid and wrestled until they could go no more.

Here are Hilde and Coal wrestling some more.

Day off with Hilde

Today I had the day off while we had a new furnace installed. Hilde really, really wanted to play with the tarps they had on the floor and even more she wanted to play with the five or so furnace guys that were in and on out of the house all day. So to amuse Hilde I gated her on the deck with a new, nummy, smoked meaty bone. She loved this bone.

Update on the bone: Hilde was up four times last night starting at about 2 am throwing up bone bits. Needless to say everyone is tired today and the bone is gone.


Here is Hilde outside in wet leaves in the sleet and she does NOT want to come in.

Hilde is going to town on this bone. She thinks it is REALLY nummy.

A day in the life of Hilde

Hilde had a bath today. She hasn't bathed since she get spayed so she was smelling a little funky. After rolling all over the carpet she settled in on her bed.



It has been cold here today so Hilde has been snuggling in her favorite blanket. It feels like what I think cookie monster would feel like. It is very soft.


Here is Hilde on her morning walk. She always brings a souvenir home. She is required to check them at the front door though. We figure she is contributing to the fireplace stash for Christmas.

The Soccer Ball

Hilde loves her soccer ball toy. On the right is her old soccer ball. She sleeps with it, rests her mouth on and generally loved it to death. So today we got Hilde a soccer ball replacement. They new one is SO white. The old one is SO icky!

Hilde's autumnal week

Last weekend was really nice and warm. Much different from this cold, blustery and snowy weekend. We spent most of Sunday outside trying to get all of the leaves cleaned up. It was and remains a losing battle. Hilde, however, had a grand time playing outside all day.

Here is Hilde smelling some very good fall smells.

What a lovely picture of the girl!

More sniffys....

Her eyes are closed!! Funny!

When we are outside Hilde doesn't stay close by so she is on a tie-out near us.

Hilde's weigh in

Oh boy, oh boy. We took Hilde to Chuck and Don's today to get some new things to chew on. She has been REALLY chewy lately. We weighed her and.... are you ready??

Hilde is 69 pounds.


Whoa.

First grade started today!

Today Hilde started first grade. Ok- the class is called "Basic Manners" but is her second level of class so it must be first grade. She is clearly excelling when compared to her classmates even after the first class.

These are the puppies in your neighborhood

This entry begins the first installation of the puppies in the neighborhood. Hilde has lots of puppy buddies in the neighborhood. She likes to go over to her friends' houses to play and sometimes they come to our house to play. Last night her friend Riley came over for a romp. Riley's sister is Molly. Molly is not the biggest fan of Hilde. Maybe because Hilde out weighs her by 70,000 times and when they play she gets squashed.


Riley and Hilde wrestling.

Hilde and Riley being good dogs showing "sit and stay"!