Goodbye Summer

Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Another beautiful September day, it's been a great month so far. It's hard to believe that Summer is almost over. 

All is good with us. Our week was uneventful...for the most part. Cooper and I went back to school on Friday. It was a fun class and the Coop didn't miss a beat. He heeled properly, did his about turns, figure eights, long stays, all that good stuff that he likes doing. I quite like the fact that there are only 6 dogs in class, it gives us more time to practice each exercise/routine. We're back in the groove and it feels good. In the past years, there were three Havanese in our class: Cooper, Blu-Belle and Macey. This year, it's just Coop and Macey. Blu-Belle and Lillian decided to take a Rally class for a change. We miss them though.

While Cooper and I were in class, in the basement of the church, a crane that was parked in the parking lot backed out and hit our SUV. The driver had no way of knowing where I was so he waited. He must have figured that since I was parked in the church parking lot, I would be showing up eventually. Meanwhile, he called the police to report the accident. Long story short, no fault of my own. I filed the claim as soon as I got home. We have an appointment tomorrow to get an estimate for the repair. From what we can see, the whole front bumper will have to be replaced. It's a nuisance, such is life sometimes, we carry on.

Russell is doing well. On Thursday, he had lunch with a few high school friends that he hadn't seen for a very very long time. It was a nice reunion and the group had lots of catching up to do. This coming week, it's my turn to meet up with two friends, Lise & Diane. We will have lunch at a Thai restaurant downtown Montreal. The last time we got together was in the Summer of 2019. I look forward to it.

We had a pleasant walk this morning by the lake. There were lots of people setting up for a picnic, a beautiful day for that. We met a group of seniors who must have spent a good 10 minutes chatting us up while patting our pooches. It was good therapy for them and we were happy to indulge 💕

That's my blog for today. Spicy and Cooper are napping with their daddy, I will watch a couple of episodes of Downton Abbey, I'm almost done with this series and will be sad when it's over. It's such a "feel good" series. Tonight's dinner is simple...grilled pork tenderloin and a greek salad. Russell was commenting this morning that we used our three barbecues this weekend: on Friday, we grilled chicken wings on the Weber Kettle using the vortex. Last night, we used our Big Green Egg to smoke some trout and tonight we will use the good old Weber propane. A man and his barbecues 😂

Have a great week everyone, enjoy the rest of the Summer!

Always time for a photo with these two by the 
Lake at Park Alexandre-Bourgeau.

A bright sunny near Fall day by the Lake.

Cooper and Macey in fine form in the "stay
down"position.

Cooper is always such a happy boy, 
especially when he's on rabbit patrol.

Spicy's big smile and such
bright eyes, a happy girl.