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Wordless Wednesday: Just don’t call it a catwalk

Last week’s Wordless Wednesday was an oxymoronic version, being that y’all were subjected to my lengthy lamentations about the change up of Holly’s weekly photo shoot. Wordless it was not.

And like I didn’t have enough challenges, what with the drizzling rain and shortage of dog cookies, but still I was presented with yet another task by a fellow puppy raiser.

You know, she says in a Facebook comment.  In your photo, Holly looks like she’s ready for the runway. 

She ended the comment with a hashtag of AmericasNextTopDogModel.

And I respond with, Sure, just don’t call it a catwalk.

But I can’t just leave it there. Not me.

Oh hey, I continue. That gives me an idea. Next week, I’ll have her walk down the sidewalk like she’s a model on a runway. 

I just have to get the chalkboard in the background, I muse. And make sure everything’s in focus since the pup will be a moving target.

Right, says fellow puppy raiser. You do that. With music.

Dang.

Oh, no matter. All I have to do is the what I usually do.

Lower my standards.

And we present you with Holly at fifteen weeks.  Strutting her stuff on the dogwalk.

Music selection is the choice of the reader.

We suggest humming to the tune Puttin’ on the Ritz.

If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to
Why don’t you go where fashion sits?
Puttin’ on the ritz …

Wordless Wednesday: It be raining. Again.

You know, if I’ve learned anything in this long-lived career in the corporate workplace, it’s the importance of being agile. To be flexible. How to embrace change.

Because no matter how carefully you may have planned, things are going to shift on you.

Or wait. No.

No, that’s just life.

So I was thinking that I’d take a weekly photo of Holly. At least until she reached a stage where her growth was not so profound in change. Dunno, maybe five or six months.

And then I figured easy ’nuff to take the photos in the same spot in the yard.

And then yesterday it rained. Stormed, actually. Thunder and lightning and should we be hunkering in the basement stuff going on out there.

Ah, but as many summer storms, it passed within minutes. Leaving us with a light rain shower.

And a tight schedule of taking Holly’s fourteen week photo.

So here we are with a misty rain causing the blackboard paint to run and the photographer’s assistant quickly running out of dog treats (do note The Husband’s shoes, bottom right), me fussing about the precious Canon in the misty rain, and Holly’s tail attempting to underline her name.

So take that, Life.  We can work around all your drama and plot twists.

We give you Holly at fourteen weeks.  Good lord, look at the legs on this pup, willya?

Wordless Wednesday: Holly at Thirteen Weeks

We interrupt a period of puppy goofiness, to bring you Holly and her Serious Face.

This is her being serious.

Thirteen weeks old now. She’s growing into those ears quite nicely, isn’t she?

Now she needs to schedule a growth spurt to catch up with that foot long tail of hers.

Wordless Wednesday: Miss Holly is Eleven Weeks

Not quite two months old, our Heros are still insisting on growing up. The Canine Companions for Independence Hero Litter – Holly, Harvest, Harpo, Hala, Hoagy, Harbor and Hudson – are across the country with their puppy raisers now and ready to rock the world.

Here’s our Miss Holly at her Eleven Week photo shoot, looking all sassy and ready to prey on another inappropriate choice to chew upon in the great outdoors.

While I admit to have lowing my standards on permitting the occasional bug nom nom, we did put the ixnay on sticks and twigs. There’s a certain cringe factor when one imagines how such things could gum up the delicate innards of a growing pup.

Do notice the photo bomb off in the background here. Our little Jagermeister may not have been the subject of the day but, he says, he is a force not to be ignored.

A Jager Bomb, so to speak.

Wordless Wednesday: Introducing Holly

Introducing the next little ball o’spunk, Miss Holly, of Canine Companions for Independence‘s Hero Litter.

Just arrived on Ohio soil this morning from sunny California.

Actually, I have no idea of today’s weather out there, but in my imagination it’s always a beautiful day. And I’m not going to mess with that by looking it up or something.

Hang loose for more stories and adventures with our newest addition and the fifth puppy we’ll be raising for Canine Companions for Independence.

In the meantime, I’m typing very, very quietly. It’s naptime.  shhh…..