Maple!   I did make that trip to SC to meet with Helen Holbrook.  And it was well worth the 3.5 hours one way.  I admit, after the accident with things even more chaotic than usual as we navigated insurance and being down a car with a holiday and family coming the following week, not to mention prepping puppies to head to new homes… I was feeling like such a long trip in the midst of all that was just too much.  However, I was also really interested in what Helen could share

Writing helps me decompress… when I get the chance to write, that is.  I should probably do it more often and decompress a bit more but, ah well, such is life.  We do what we have to do to.  Today I kicked the kids and the puppies outside to make time for writing.  It’s a beautiful day.  The boys are tossing the football.  Apparently one of them is not a very good catcher because it keeps hitting the side of the house.  I’m sitting in the sun on the couch with a box of Kleene

What does a day in the life of a Brambly Mountain puppy look like?  After the first 4 weeks of essentially living and breathing mama and littermates in the whelping box, life changes dramatically for these little guys. Last season, my husband and older son built a “puppy shed” and fenced area which has been a game changer!  We no longer have a litter of puppies taking over the center of our living space for 2 months!  Once they develop past the mama-phase, we move them outsid