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Goodbye old friend...

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I have been wanting to print my blog into a book for sometime now and it's just one of those things that gets pushed aside.  I now know why, it needed to wait for this post.  As a puppy just a few weeks old. Tomorrow we say goodbye to our dearest, oldest Rottweiler, Yukon.  His time has arrived to be let go, he is in pain and can't get up and down anymore.  He has given us over 10 years as part of our family.  This morning he looked up at me with his big brown eyes, and his grey muzzle and I knew, he was telling me he just couldn't do it anymore, he couldn't go on any longer for us.  I made the call to John, and the call to the vet.  Tomorrow is going to be a very sad day in our house. Yukon came to us a puppy full of life, energy and a playful spirit.  I remember I was terrified of getting a Rottie, but they were John's breed.  He loved them.  One of our first Christmas' living together in 2000, I decided to get Yukon for John, as a gift.  We went over to

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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What a difference a year makes.  I'll probably say that about a million times before Rhett is 18. So, I distinctly remember only one year ago, propping my little baby baby boy Rhett up in his cute little GREEN onesie my girlfriend, Janet, bought him last year for St. Paddy's.  Posing him with his frog buddy and taking about 100 pictures to get the absolute cutest picture possible of this little man, who was only a few weeks old last year at St. Paddy's day.  It was great fun, and he would just sit, flop over to the side, drool and gaze around at mommy and the camera.  I remember it was 15 minutes of activity and he slept for a good hour afterwards.  See evidence of this fun photo shoot below... Then....we arrive to 2011, where my little man is an active 13 1/2 month old toddler, all boy.  It was ALL I could do to snap 10 pictures, most of them were in mid-motion...grabbing the remotes, the wipes, monitor, whatever he could get his hands on...climbing on the sofa (s

Bubbles, babies & rottweilers

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Bubble fun from this morning, little did we know the dogs would love it as much as Rhett does. He asks for 'bubble' now. YouTube Video - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone