Rainwater Rambling Archive

Chloe Chronicles 2

A few pictures of Chloe from during the week. She turned 10 weeks on Friday.

She loves her bucket.

Angela and Chloe.

Chloe playing frisbee with Angela or also known as chewing.

An action shot of Chloe running around the backyard in a frenzy.

Loki from next door trying to get a closer look at the furball running around.

Sometimes she poops herself out and plops down on the grass for a snooze.

Is she really asleep? or pretending?

Can you tell where she has been, perhaps the yellow petal from the black eye susan's gives it away.

Getting belly rubs from Claudia.

Chloe with her rawhide stogie.

Another of her favourite toys outside.

Bath Day

Today was bath day for Chloe, I thought why not take her for a good run, get her tired out and then give her a bath. We headed over to the Meadowvale Conservation Area not far from the house. The girls found a sloth tree (a tree which allows them to hang like a sloth).

There was lots of open space for Chloe to run around. We stayed clear of the GINA picnic. GINA is short for "Greyhounds In Need of Adoption". It is an organization that tries to find homes for retired racing Greyhounds.

We stayed clear of the Hogweed. It looks like giant Queen Annes Lace, the sap is bad news if it gets on human skin.

We remembered there "use to be" a bridge to cross over the river.

It wasn't very nice down by the river, lots of broken glass and beer bottles.

We were teaching Chloe her name.

Some of the leaves are starting to change already.

We found another path to the river and when Claudia stepped towards it, the ground moved. It was a garter snake that freaked her out. Later I started stopping on the ground and he started to slither away.

Claudia poking around for more snakes.

Chloe was tired out after our walk, she decided she was going to lie down in the shade.

The girls with Chloe.

We headed back home and started to get her bath ready. It wasn't her favourite thing, she looked like the drowned rat.

Here she is shaking away in the backyard. She looked pretty good afterwards.

Of course she was rolling around in the rocks and grass as soon as she got the chance.

Cockapoo Humour

It's been a busy week for the family, I just finished giving a 2 day workshop to six of our regional inspectors on our air and precipitation sampling program. It the third workshop I have put together this year for various sampling programs. The last time I gave this one was 3 years ago, so I was a little rusty, but it turned out well.

Susan had a night meeting yesterday and had to miss the first night of Chloe's puppy lessons. The girls and I went and Chloe did well. When it came time for free play, they let the puppies off the leash and they can play with each other. The other six dogs were running around the room and ours sat by our feet.

Tonight was our first School Council meeting of the year and it looks like I'll be Chair again this year. When I told them I would probably not be able to make the next meeting in October, the principal was more than willing to set the next meeting by my schedule. October will be a busy travel month for me, I have trips to Saratoga Springs, NY; Island Falls, SK; Chapais, QC; and Nashville,TN all in a span of about 6 weeks. Hope Chloe has some room in the dog house for me.

This little cartoon originally was sent to us in the mail by Aunt Gert, and a little digging on the Internet found the on-line version. The timing was perfect for us. Thanks! Aunt Gert.

Chloe's Cousins

We headed out to Hamilton to Lori's to introduce Chloe to Mickey and Nike.

Chloe getting the once over by Mickey and Nike.

Chloe ducking from a left hook.

Later on Barney showed up, he is Dale's Moms dog. You can see Chloe hiding out under Angela's legs.

Claudia with all four dogs.

Mickey.

Nike.

Chloe's Invisible Shield

Chloe seems to think that her bed has an invisibility cloak around it. Whenever she grabs something that she shouldn't have she runs to her bed. Here she is with one of Claudia's stuffed animals.

Chloe Practicing

Chloe has been practicing for Halloween.

Chloe Update

It's been awhile since we have done a Chloe update. She is still growing and keeping us busy.

She loves playing with her margarine container. She is getting better with the shoes, we don't have to hide them in the closet as often.

She is going to the groomers next week and then the week after she is going in to get spayed.

Happy Halloween

Chloe was looking out the window waiting for kids to come to the door. 

See Angela in the window.

The three girls ready to go out.

Chloe didn't keep her skirt on very long.

We only had about 20 kids come to the door. The girls and I went around the neighbourhood and they got a lot of "take what you want, we haven't had very many kids".

Chloe Back Home

I was off today for Remembrance Day, so I went to the school for their Remembrance Day ceremony. They do a great job and the last couple of years they have invited a bag piper to participate. Chloe went in yesterday for her surgery. She was spayed and had her back dew claws removed.

She was very happy to see me when I picked her up. She stayed overnight at the vets.

She is doing well, we opted for the laser surgery, so her recovery should be quicker and there are no stitches.

Kodak Moment

Claudia and Chloe fell asleep watching tv tonight.

Chloe and Bella

We went to Ikea for the breakfast combo today. The breakfast combo is the $1.00 breakfast and because we're there we inevitably buy the rest of the combo. The best way to keep the combo down is to take the Yaris. While we were there Gillian received a text from Sarah to see if we could let Bella out through the day. We thought why not just bring Bella over and her and Chloe can play, or rather Chloe could bug Bella all day. Eventually Chloe settled down and she followed Bella around.

I had them outside for some photos. I asked them to look at me.

Then look up and to the left.

Look away from each other.

Look at each other.

Another Play date for Chloe

Chloe had another buddy over to the house. Karen who was our sitter for the girls and now comes over and lets Chloe out during the day has put their house on the market. They were having a couple of showings tonight, so they asked if Hailey could come over for a couple of hours. Susan and I had a School Council meeting, but the girls were home. Karen has brought Hailey over during the day when she lets Chloe out, so they get along. Of course Chloe being the puppy she is, gets all spazzy and is always bugging Hailey.

Chloe waiting for her picture to be taken, but Hailey wasn't co-operating.

Chloe's Sweater

I made Chloe a sweater to keep her a little warmer in the snow. I had made Coco a sweater like this years ago. Here is Chloe modelling her sweater.

It is made from a hockey sock. Not having any lying around the house, I had to go buy one. We picked the Detroit Red Wings colours since it was closest to the Team Canada colours. Our other choices were the Habs (never!), the Kings (black on black, we'd never see her at night) or the Leafs (didn't want her buddies to make fun of her).

Chloe and the Snow

Chloe is still adjusting to the snow. The first morning it really snowed she spent a lot of time running around trying to catch the snowflakes. She digs, she eats the snow and she pees wherever she wants. We shovelled off the deck and some of the grass area for her. Since there is still snow on the deck she hasn't quite figured out that under the snow is the deck. Next time it snows we'll have to shovel just a trail for her to get out to the grass. Claudia shovelled the deck and more of the deck is showing, so now she goes right out to the grass.

She comes in from the outside and she has snow all stuck to her beard.

Angela and Chloe.

Chloe likes to look out the window, especially when someone goes out the door.

Chloe and the Snowman

The girls built a snowman on the back deck and Chloe sat there and barked at it for awhile.

Eventually she stopped barking and decided she was going to chew on his arm.

A Dog-filled Christmas

We headed out to Lori and Dale's for Christmas dinner. We brought Chloe with us to celebrate with her buddies. We thought there would be four dogs, but it turned out to be five. Sara and Brent showed up with Pretzel, a Rat Terrier/Chihuahua cross.

Lori's Christmas Tree with a few presents still under it.

Here are four of the five dogs, Chloe and her black coat sticks out like a sore thumb. Mickey and Nike are getting old and for the most part ignored the puppies.

Here are Kiely and Chloe, it's not what it looks like, They were tearing around the house and then they would come barrelling down the stairs. When Chloe got to the second step, she would leap off the stairs, this time she came down right on top of Kiely. Kiely is a couple of months older than Chloe and has more energy than Chloe.

Melissa and Eric checkng out her Netbook.

Alex sporting his 'fro.

Claudia on paper patrol.

Grandpa with his new Wii.

Emi and Pretzel.

Brad, Lisa and a couple of dogs.

Chloe waiting for the door to open. Mickey and Nike have a bowl of food that sits out for them all day, and when Chloe discovered it she was all over it, hence the reason the door is closed.

The girls and their jar of flavoured jelly beans. The general consensus was that nobody likes the popcorn flavoured ones.

Pretzel playing with Chloe.

Melissa in her Obi-wan Kenobi costume. May the force be with you!

Kiely and Chloe.

They finally tired and took a break.

Chloe Update

It's been awhile since I've done a Chloe update. She is up to 14 lbs, and Susan thinks she has stopped growing, I think she still has a little more to go. She started out in the bed, but she slowly ended up sleeping on the floor.

She loves her bucket, this one has cracked, but she still plays with it everyday. We'll have to look for a new one in the summer.

What little snow we got this winter sure liked to stick to Chloe. She would come in covered in snow.

Crazy Weather!

Hope you got a chance to get out and enjoy the crazy temperatures, Mississauga reached 24.3 °C on Good Friday. Here is Claudia, her friend and Chloe hanging out on the front lawn.

Chloe is enjoying the good weather, she has been especially interested in the birds. It must be the Cocker Spaniel in her.

We headed out to Mom and Dad's place on Good Friday. Chloe travels well in the car, her and Angela are ready to go.

Sara and Brent brought Pretzel with them, so Chloe had someone to play with.

Danny had the kids out at the park playing soccer. Claudia taking a break.

Alex. 

Things were going well until Danny stepped on Alex's foot with his industrial soccer shoes.

Here is Chloe telling Pretzel to wait his turn to look out Grandma's window.

Chloe telling Pretzel to hurry up and look out the window.

Hey wait a minute I think there is enough room on the stool for both of us.

Chloe doing her wet noodle with Melissa.

Chloe's Summer Cut

Chloe got her first summer cut today. Here she is before going to the groomers.

Here she is after the groomers.

Back to Blogging

I am finally getting around to updating the blog for this summer, it's not that we haven't been doing things, if anything, we have been doing too much. It will take a while to get this complete, I've taken close to 2000 photos since the last post back in May. Last night we watched "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" outside in the backyard with the Carr's. This has been our 4th or 5th movie this summer that we have done outside. Last Sunday we watched "Get Smart". I've gotten the set-up to the point where it only takes 10-15 minutes and we now have four locations we can mount or makeshift screen between our house and our neighbours.

On Friday morning, Angela, Claudia, Chloe and I were up early to head over to the Leash-free dog park. It is about five minutes from the house. Claudia and I went last Saturday morning, but it was after 9:00 am when we got there and there had to be over 30 dogs at the park. Chloe has quite figured out what she is suppose to do. She barks at the big dogs, sometimes running towards them, but as soon as they turn, she high tails it back to us. Friday she would run under one of the picnic tables. Here is Angela doing some scooping after Chloe did her business.

The girls managed to find a caterpillar while they were in the woods with Chloe.

The girls have been looking after Lily and Loki, the two pugs that live next door, for the past couple of weeks. They have been feeding, playing and walking them while our neighbours are away. Their oldest is home, but not always around. They have been watering the plants and veggies as well. Here is Lily trying to get in our house.

Chloe has been playing with the pugs everyday, her and Loki run laps around the backyards. By the evening she is pooped. Here she is kind of in and out of her bed.