Puppy love x 2!

Today, we visited with Nathan and Darlah of Talemakers Havanese. The purpose of this visit was two folds: first, to meet our gal puppy Maxie for the first time, which was born on September 5. As mentioned in a previous blog, the puppy stays with the breeder for 10 weeks, in order to be conditioned, socialized and vet checked for shots and microchipping. Today was the introductory visit with Maxie. Although we had been following Maxie's progress on Darlah's blog, and knew that she had won our hearts, we instantly fell in love with her when we saw her in person today. She's a spunky little thing, takes no guff from anybody, and is very strong. We decided to name her Maxie for her maximum attitude, which will blend nicely with ours :-) She will come home to us on November 23.

The second reason for the visit was to meet another puppy, a 5 1/2 months old, boy. We instantly loved him and decided to add him to our Family. His name will be Cooper and he will come home to us on November 9. We had originally planned on getting a second puppy in the New Year, so we are just a few months early, but with the benefit of having a second puppy that is a few months older than planned. We also had a different name picked for this puppy but for many reasons, we decided to name this one Cooper. He is very much like Gary Cooper, the famed movie actor, tall, a bit rough and tumble with chiseled good looks. So, now we wait the arrival of our two dogs with much excitement.

On the log home front, lots of progress was made this week. The lot is now ready for the foundation, which will start this week. The well should get started in a few weeks. As for our home itself, the height of the log walls is now 70 inches. Matt and his crew will start the roof in a few weeks. All is going well, although the weather has not been cooperating too much.

We got some good work done in our Mississauga home, and more to do in the next few weeks. We also started buying a few "dog things" such as gates and a few toys. It's all good. We now look forward to having Maxie and Cooper home.

As promised in my last blog, click this link for our latest Huntsville video. Enjoy and have a good week!