Life if full of transitions. My summer is over and today I went back to work to plan for another school year. Sunday finalized the transition from carpet to hardwood floors in the main part of the house. No more smelly puppy pee carpet!!!! But now there is the transition of dusting everything off and putting it back in place, or deciding to donate much of it to Goodwill.
We are also making a transition in Dawgpatch. On Friday Blossom's puppies will be 8 weeks old and will begin leaving to go to their new families. Maggie will leave first Friday afternoon as she goes to live with the Farley family and Lizzy, the cocker they adopted from us a couple of years ago. Then on Saturday the Walden family will come down from Virginia to pick up Ribsy so he can go live with them and his very own older sister, Lula. My beautiful little sable girl will be waiting for her new mom to get back from her vacation and she'll be going to North Carolina on the 16th. That leaves the other 3 babies who will stay here and play and be with us until the right family comes along and decides to adopt them.
In the meantime, Emma has blessed us with 6 new baby English Toys. They are so tiny and fresh and warm, and again I marvel at how quickly they are growing and changing. Emma is a wonderful mom and turns her back on me every time I open the door to change the bed. She hates the disruption of her little family for the sake of cleanliness! But she forgives easily if I rub her head for a while and tell her how proud I am of her for producing these wonderful babies. Thank you, Emma!
