Mostly Photos...and Something about Email Problems

Happy Summer Solstice! (I know, I am a day late!) So...Summer is officially underway and I hope your summer days are all happy ones.

This blog post will mainly be for showing you photos of the puppies and of Joyslyn's dogs that now belong to others.

Four of Kimmi's puppies left for their new homes. The fifth one is staying with us. This is Archie at 11 weeks. His name used to be Noah, and I explained in the last post why we changed it.

Archie's siblings' owners sent updates and photos too.
This is the puppy formerly known as Gabe and now named Carso.

This is Teddy, previously named Liam.

Here is  the boys' litter sister, Hazel just hanging out with her girls.

And this is their sister Minnie.

We have new puppies. Greta's litter was born June 6th and are now 2 weeks old. They are not very photogenic at this age but here they are.

Two gold females: 

Two black females:

And one black male:

All these puppies have been reserved.

Jenna has one puppy, who is now one week old. I call her Solo, for obvious reasons!

I have contacted the next 8 people on my list so that I can keep the list up to date. Not everyone on the list wants a black puppy.

Onyx's litter is due any day now. My guess is that all her puppies will be black. She was bred to Breaker, who is gold, and the last time they had puppies, all were black. My apologies to those on my list who are waiting for gold puppies. It's not like shopping online where you can put an order in for number of puppies, number of males and females, and color choices.

Stacey sent a photo of Enzo. Usually he is pictured cuddled up to his buddy Elliot, but not this time.

Judy sent a photo of Gus and his ribbons. Gus is now an AKC S.T.A.R  puppy and recipient of the AKC Canine Good Citizen Award. He also just earned his Trick Dog Novice Award.

Sally sent a photo of Ginger, taken after Ginger had been racing around with a German Shepherd friend. She got hot and dug herself a hole to cool off. Bath time for Ginger!

My Email Problems

If you are on my waiting list for a female and are among the 8 people who originally  contacted me between February 11, 2020, and April 22, 2020, you should have received an email on June 11th asking if you wanted to stay on the waiting list and if you would confirm again your color preference*. If you did not receive that email, first check your SPAM or JUNK folders and if it is not there, let me know because I have had some problems with email lately. Thanks to those four who have already responded.

If you did receive the email, please reply by June 24 or I will assume you have found a puppy from another breeder and are no longer interested.

Yes, outlook.com has been giving me some problems. These were first discovered when a close friend sent me an important email to which I responded. However, she never received the response and wrote wondering why. We did a couple of experiments and found that, while I received her messages, mine were not getting through to her, not even in her SPAM or JUNK files. So she has to use my work email address to communicate with me via email.

Something similar happened with someone who is buying a puppy. I receive her messages and if I click "Reply," and respond to her that way, she does not receive my messages, but if I start a new message, it goes through. Go figure...

I just do not want anyone to think I am ignoring their messages. So, if you email me and do not get a response after a day, send an email again asking if I received your original message. I check my messages numerous times a day unless I am traveling (not likely these days).

Technology can be so helpful and yet so frustrating! Is anyone else noticing that the letters x, y, and z are not showing up in some emails and on some websites? Weird...and it seems to be happening with the serif fonts.

Anyway, Happy Summer!

Joyce

* I have not received return messages from Tracy S., Tamara S., Roger A., or Kim K.

Replies have been received from Terry D., Judy B., Robert O., and Stephanie W. 

June Is Bustin' Out All Over!

"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."  
~ Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tibb 


Well, we've made it through another month without haircuts. That is something to celebrate, I guess. Actually, with businesses opening up this month, if you really need a reason to celebrate, just google "Wacky June holidays," and you will get a long list. Here are a few I found: 
4th - Hug Your Cat Day (missed that one!)
9th - Donald Duck Day
18th - Go Fishing Day
23rd - National Pink Day
26th - Forgiveness Day (We definitely need to celebrate this one)

As I write this, June 6th is tomorrow and, of course, that is a day of celebration in honor of the 76th anniversary of D-Day and the Americans who fought under such terrible circumstances. 

An excerpt from "Normandy" by Cyril Crain

"...The battle raged in Normandy, many lives were lost.
The war must end in victory and this must be the cost.
When my life is over, and I reach the other side,
I'll meet my friends from Normandy and shake their hands with pride."

Upcoming we have Flag Day on the 14th and

Juneteenth on the 19th. The word is a combination of June and the June day (19th) in 1865 that Texas governor read the Emancipation Proclamation (2 years after it was written!) to the state's African-American slaves. It is also known as Freedom Day.

And, of course, we remember our dads on June 21st.

We have been quietly celebrating the publication of my husband's first novel. It's been getting great reviews, so if you like a good mystery novel, you should definitely get a copy. All the book signings had to be canceled because of the Covid19 virus and that was disappointing. Look for Rose's Thorn by Lynn-Steven Johanson. Those of you who have already read it and said you hope there is another with the same main character will be pleased to know Lynn has written the first draft of the next book and is currently revising it before it goes to the publisher for more editing. 

Two days ago I quietly celebrated the completion of a task for the American Lhasa Apso Club that I had been putting off. I actually found out, once I got started, that it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I mentally patted myself on the back and ate some ice cream. 

We'll soon be celebrating new puppies. They are due this weekend. People at the top of our waiting list will be happy too!

The current litter of puppies will soon be leaving and I hope their pick-up day is a day of celebration for the new owners. I am keeping one of them - the male that was given the temporary name Noah. I decided I could not call him Noah, although I thought naming him Joyslyn's Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head would be fun! However, the name Noah begins with the syllable "no" and it occurred to me that every time I said "no" to any of the other dogs, the poor boy would think I was chastising him! So, we are still working on both a call name and registered name for him.

Here are the puppies' photos at age 9 weeks. From top to bottom: Gabe, Hazel, Liam, Noah, and Minnie. 

We took photos of Millie also. She is now 14 months old. She is very pretty and I love her happy, playful attitude. She looks so dignified in these photos. Don't let that fool you! She is a character!

Chuck and Steve sent this photo of their Lhasa Cooper, who is a Rafe (GCH CH Joyslyn's Inherit the Wind) son. He's a handsome boy! 

Jan sent photos of Pebbles Grace, a litter sister of Millie's. As puppies, they were hard for me to tell apart. We called them the twins and I had to mark them to be able to tell who was who.

Denise sent this photo of Colonel. What a cutie!

Finally, it is my hope that we all find many things, large and small, to celebrate not only in June but throughout our lives. The first months of 2020 have not been good ones for so many people as the virus, the killings and resulting protests, and the small and large trials of daily life lately have turned our lives upside down, making us question "why" day after day. 

May you find something good in every day and may you always be thankful for your Lhasa Apso and the love and devotion he/she gives you. A Lhasa kiss makes things so much better!

Joyce