Off to the Rheingau

Since New Year’s eve is tomorrow, we decided we would go on a mission into the Rheingau wine-growing region and see what we could find to accompany dinner and hopefully pick up some nice bottles of sparkling wine (sekt) as well. We did a bit of research online...

Ayla’s Weigh In Stats

Current weight stats of our Newfoundland puppy December 30 ~ 43 weeks ~ 90 pounds (41 kg) November 12th ~ 36 weeks ~ 83 pounds (38 kg) October 10th ~ 32 weeks ~ 80 pounds (36 kg) September 24th ~ 30 weeks ~ 74.5 pounds (34 kg) September 10th ~ 28 weeks ~ 71 pounds (32...

Ideas for Christmas 2007

Since my mom is here visiting and it’s almost New Years, we decided to go down to the Rheingau with hopes of finding some good sparkling wine for the celebration. Our first stop was Kloster Eberbach which is more or less a tourist trap but the grounds are quite...

Too much cleaning

Well it seems we don’t have too much to worry about aside from the fact that Ayla seems to be cleaning herself a bit too much and has caused a slight infection and irritation to her vulva because she is licking it so often. The vet gave us some light antibiotics...

Off to the vet

For the past couple of days, Ayla has been having accidents in the house again. We’re pretty certain she’s in heat so we figure it might have something to do with that…or perhaps we’re less intelligent than we thought and she’s actually...