Author: wendyllbehrend
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How I spent my summer by Piper
24 August 2020 In early June, I received a call from a good friend who had managed to cross the border from Quebec into Vermont, make his way down to NYC to grab his daughter and return to Stowe. His daughter wanted out of Manhattan (for good reason) and found herself solo in a house…
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Kristof arrived, Questa x Ziva puppies have left and Koko & I have begun agility!
18 July 2020 Hallo, peeps! Never a dull moment, over here at Kensington Palace. I kid you not. Since I last reached out to you, Campari has left and gone to Kentucky, Questa was wicketed at 16″, Xtremely Yvette has returned, Kristof has arrived from Slovakia, Piper has gone on holiday, Ziva’s been re-homed and…
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Hey, everyone – Annabel’s famous! From Facebook to television!
26 May 2020 I know that many of us scorn aspects of Facebook and some refuse to participate. Myself? I find that it’s a great way to reach out to folks who are interested in what I’m doing but may not know me personally. I use Wagging Tales at Kensington as my more ‘intimate’ platform…
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Just when you thought you knew what came next . . .
7 May 2020 Unlike my mentor Nina Wagner, never did I ever think that we’d use C-section as a tool in my breeding program. But when you get a singleton puppy? The puppy doesn’t secrete enough of the hormone that stimulates first stage labor and so, the procedure is very often used to get the…
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Ramblings to keep us all entertained . . .
15 April 2020 So, today may as well be Sunday, after yesterday’s ‘Sunday’, and before tomorrow’s ‘Sunday’ . . . I’ve been cooking, washing & ironing bed linens, grooming dogs, making doggie treats and cleaning my house, with not much else to do. Next on the agenda is to vacuum the carpeted stairs to the…
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How our lifestyles have shifted, for the moment . . .
10 April 2020 Emilie-Claire Barlow sings a lovely version of C’est Si Bon on her album Seule ce soir from 2012. Translated, it means ‘alone tonight’, as many of us are during these curious times. Lately, I’ve had my Google Assistant playing Brazilian Jazz and I get great bossanova, when I ask for Brazilian Jazz. …
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Springtime is soon to be upon us and that means deer ticks . . .
29 March 2020 Thank you all for reaching out to check on us, during these last few weeks. We are safe & well in our little house and grateful that so far? Everyone we know is ok. So, with those details behind us? Let’s share a happy photo! Meet Leopold! Leo was planning to move…
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Here we go, again . . .
4 March 2020 Once again, it was off to New Hampshire that we drove yesterday. Piper was a very good girl in her crate in the way back and the lovely Lady Ziva sat next to me in her harness and seat belt in the passenger’s seat. At 28.4 pounds, my car knew she wasn’t…
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And what do you do with your free time? ;>)
22 February 2020 Isn’t it a curious expression, ‘Free time’? I wonder what the etymology is of this phrase. You know what? I’m going to check . . . Well, this is very interesting and it explains why ‘leisure’ rhymes with ‘pleasure’, when spoken by an Englishwoman. Apparently, ‘free time’ is time available to one’s…
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The best year yet and the next one begins . . . now!
9 January 2020 (Can’t believe that I actually typed the correct year: 2020. Perhaps I am more rested than I’ve been in years past?) Regardless, we have achieved the one goal I set for Kensington in 2019 and that is to have eclipsed Billie’s 2016 #14 National Breed placing. Billie was our first US…