Madness

I can't believe I haven't blogged since Easter! Bad Little Ma, bad!
But we've had sick people and hospital visits so I haven't always been here at the computer. Big Pa had a very clever op on some tube in his body - amazing what they can do . He's better now and back working in his shed. He's happy!
Dudette got a bout of kidney infection and was hospitalised. Thankgoodness I had my family helping me with food and staying at the hospital when I had to go and see to stuff at home! She's all better now but it was yuk seeing her so ill and in so much pain. Finding out she has reactions to codiene wasn't pleasant either. Especially as they administered it again when she was on the mend and I had gone home. Needless to say she got pretty sick pretty quickly again. What can you do but roll your eyes.
We didn't get much sleep so in between caring for Dudette I got some knitting done for

Picklesticks

. ( A little beret, poncho and cute little socks. I can't believe socks are so small. ) It was so calming. I didn't need a pattern so I could drop it when I needed to , pick it up again when I just had to sit around and wait. BUT I forgot to take a pic- rats. I'll pop in a photo of something else.


MnM calls this one 'Ying and Yang" obviously!!
Not Knitting but cute anyway!! There's a constant battle of wits for that bed between the 2 dogs. Tan ( the black one - yeah I know but I didn't name him) was so looking forward to Letty going but she caught Kennel Cough from her brother and shared it with Tan so they are both quarantined for 21 days. Which means she missed the intake for her guide dog training and has to wait for the next one . I don't want to think about how far away that is - it's going to be harder when she does go. Oh joy , oh joy.

Huggs Little Ma

RSB Guide dog update!!!!

Hi everyone!!!
As some of you would know our first ever blog published was of Little Letty. Exactly 37 weeks ago our family decided we'd ( I mean Dudette) would train a guide dog. And exactly 29 weeks ago we picked up our "Little Letty". I thought it would be nice to do a two part special of her progress in the past 29 weeks. This post will be of the cheeky, mischievous, funny puppy we've come to know and love. This side is the side we see every day, and the side most other people won't get to see once she's out of the house and working. When we first got Letty she did a lot of sleeping, and us being softies took lots of pics. These are my faves.








Tim Tan enjoyed having Letty for the first few weeks, that is until she stopped needing so much sleep. He is 8 years old and needs 4 or 5 'Nanna' naps a day, Letty had other ideas about that and would bug him till she got what she wanted. However after the initial shock he has enjoyed having her here, and especially because we've had to give him more food because of the amount of exercise Letty has made him do.


Since then Letty has done lots of growing up, and when I say lots I mean lots.



Letty is a very interactive dog and is always trying to tempt someone to play with her. She loves toys. They've both been going through toys faster than a rocket over the last few months, and is starting to cost a bit. While shopping at Big W we found a very big Nyla-bone which is great for both of them because they can walk each other around without pulling it in two, which has been the fate of all the previous toys.



For Xmas she got the squeakiest toy ever. And will sit just out of reach in the middle of a movie and squeak it, either with her nose or in her mouth. Then run off just as you get up to stop her. It's also the longest lasting rubber toy.



I swear that dog was a seal in a previous life. Water. She loves it. When ever she hears the hose on she's right behind, ready to eat, catch and bite it. We took her to the beach for a swim the other day. I had to force her to sit on my lap in the water or she probably would have swum to the end of the earth. She quite likes to stop the sprinkler with her nose, and jump and run rings around it. (If you're from the RSB - we do stop her : )



Stay tuned for next months issue "Letty on the job" Got to get some pics first.
Sayounora MnM!!!!!!!!!!!

Little Ma here, To all those people who say to me "oh I couldn't do it. I couldn't give them up".... I Knoooow. I'm having heartbreak moments already just thinking about it. So I'm busy trying not to think about it.