Our New Trophy!

Hi everyone!

Thank you so much for the kind words of encouragement for Charlie. That is so nice of all of you! Charlie went to Grandma's house for games and training today. We all hope she will be on her game for the weekend. I hear she did well today and listened and followed instructions.

I am so excited, when I got home from work there was a box from Mango's Mom!! It was our trophy from Mango Minster! Wow! Is this beautiful!! I couldn't believe that we got an actual trophy. It is a paw print in a kind of nugget look golden stone. The base feels like a ceramic one and there is an awesome plaque with the name of the show, group and Charlie's name!

We Love Our Trophy!!!

Thank you very much, Mango Mom, Mango and Dexter too! It is so nice of you to have these made and then mail them out. It is a terrific trophy and we really appreciate all the work you did.

We also got a bag of some yummy Organic Pumpkin treats for the puppies to share. They are gobbling them up! They look like Teddy Grahams for dogs. They are just a little bigger but still a teddy bear shape.

That's all of our excitement. It has been a quiet week, just business as usual. I signed up for Girlville's relaxing swap and I have started putting my swap package together. It's items you consider relaxing. I will post pictures of my package once it has been received. ;o)

take care!

hugs,

puglette

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Awards and Certificates!

Hi everyone!

I hope you have all had a pleasant weekend! Just another quiet Sunday at the puglette household. On Saturday we did some shopping, had dinner with our daughter and Charlie did some agility.

Charlie had an agility trial on Saturday and we apparently missed the boat on this one. Hubby and I didn't notice the schedule and had planned our dinner and shopping day...well, I planned it. Charlie's grandma was nice and took Charlie with her doggies to the show. We heard later that Charlie was not in the mood to weave. She plunked her little bottom down and watched as her grandma tried to coax her through the weave poles.

Our shopping trip was a bit stressful. We went looking at orthotics and shoes to help my hip and back pain. Geesh, it is so hard for me to buy shoes! I love shoes, I would love nothing better than to be able to just wear any kind of shoe I thought was cute...but nooo. I have bad feet and have to have ankle support and arch support. That just does not scream "cute shoes" in my head. >:o(

I did get some schmancy inserts and sport shoes. I am not a tennis shoe girl, I prefer a nice casual mary jane. But I couldn't find anything that met the cute and supportive criteria so I bought some green tennis shoes. They do make my hip feel better and my pinched nerve pain has lessened so I will get comfortable with them.

OK! Now on to the good stuff! I received an award from my new friend Tweedles! She sent us the Honest Award because she likes us! Thank you Tweedles!! We like you too!

And we received Charlie's Certificate from winning the Sporty Group in Mango-Minster! This certificate is just beautiful! We love it so much, thank you Mango!

Next weekend will be a busy one! Charlie will be running in the Seattle Kennel Club AKC Dog Show agility trials. This is a big show and we are excited and nervous too! We have plans for Charlie to go to the groomers for a good bath and toe nail trim. Hubby keeps asking me if we should dye her fur. She has a few white hairs in her shiny black coat that he has talked about dying or putting mascara on them to hide them. Yesterday he asked me if we should dye her coat a really dark black, you know the kind of black dye that has a colored sheen? He's a goofy guy! ;o)

Well, off to finish the laundry!

take care!

hugs,

puglette

Broken Comments?

Hi everyone!
I guess the comment moderation thingy is not working correctly. I changed the setting and hope we are back to accepting your comments.
Thanks!
puglette
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A Trip to the Beach!

Hi everyone!

Hubby and I took Friday off and packed up the puppies and headed to the Oregon Coast. It was a beautiful day, sunny and almost warm. You could smell spring trying to break out. We even saw some daffodils and crocus popping their heads up to get some sun.

We headed south and then west to get to Cannon Beach, Oregon. Cannon Beach is a really quaint town on the beach. The beach is huge, very wide and flat. Cannon Beach holds a sand castle building contest every summer, there are fabulous creations everywhere.

We took the scenic route to the ocean. We spent a good part of the drive meandering along the Columbia River. The Columbia is a huge river and it makes a natural border between Washington and Oregon. We like to follow this route as it leads to the small town of Cathlamet and the small ferry boat that crosses the Columbia River. The Cathlamet ferry is a small barge type ferry. The first time we took the ferry, we drove onto a platform and waited for the ferry to arrive. We were totally surprised when we started floating out into the river! We had actually driven onto the boat and didn't even realize until we started moving. Unfortunately our timing wasn't good on this trip and the ferry sailed as we pulled up. We decided not to wait the hour until the next boat and continued our drive.

Just before crossing the bridge over to Oregon there is a small rest stop. This rest stop has the funniest name for a rest stop that I have ever seen. Welcome to Dismal Nitch!

Whoever named this place must have been having a bad day. This Nitch is anything but Dismal. It is a lovely place to stop and look across the river at the lovely bridge and the town of Astoria. Actually, William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame named this little spot Dismal Nitch. He and his crew were stopped by stormy weather just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean and meeting with a trade ship. They were stuck for six days in this location and missed their meeting with the ship. I guess the bathrooms weren't built then.

Just a friendly reminder...No Fish Cleaning in drinking fountains.

We stay in a nice hotel in Cannon Beach called the Hallmark Inn. The Hallmark is right on the beach and we had an ocean front room. All of the ocean front rooms have a view of the biggest attraction in Cannon Beach, Haystack Rock. What a view! Haystack Rock on our left and Ecola Lighthouse to our right. Simply beautiful scenery!!!

Hubby and I had been saving some gift certificates we had received for use at the Hallmark Inns. Our family knows we love this hotel so we had been given these gifts. We were even able to use the gift certificate for a yummy steak and seafood dinner at the restaurant across the street. Our stay was totally free! We really like the Hallmark because of the way they welcome our stinky doggies. We had a basket waiting for us with dog biscuits, three Frisbee's, a sheet for the bed so the puppies can snuggle and three of the cutest water bottle holders with a collapsible water bowl in one of the pockets.

We only stayed the one night and headed home after a yummy breakfast and a trip to the local yarn store. We also stopped in some of the other shops and looked around. Tons of cute shops are ready to wander through. There is a great quilt shop, glass blowers, souvenirs and art galleries. I bought a book of patterns and sizing techniques for crocheting fluffy woman sweaters. Not fluffy sweaters...fluffy women. ;o)

We arrived at home early Saturday evening and spent the rest of the weekend at home. We love to have some down time at home to recharge before the work week. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend too! We are all booked up with dog show activity in March...yikes! So we need to get our relaxing in when we can.

Take care everyone!

hugs,

puglette

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