Merry Christmas

Just a quick post to say that I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season.
I hope you enjoy good company, decadent food, some sparkly bubbles and just a few little gifts.
I know I will.
Thanks for dropping by the Hut Chronicles this year, I love to hear from you.
I'm looking forward to a new year of adventures and hope to spend Christmas 2011 in our new little hut (we'd better be in by then!)
Nigella and Claudia send licks and waggy tails your way too.

P.S. You have no idea how long it took to get this one photo- antlers are much more fun to steal from eachother than to pose in!

Do my ears look big in this?

I had forgotten a few things about a little German Shepherd puppy:

• they go through a teenage stage with big paws and ears!
• how sharp their teeth are,
• how they want to try to eat everything, rocks, tow balls, Nigella's tail,
• how they are really messy when drinking water (she sticks her whole face in the bowl),
• that first 15 minutes of whining when we put her in the laundry to sleep,
• that they're all action for a while then they just fall over and have a power nap.

But I haven't forgotten how they just make you smile for no reason, that she really does want to please you and that she wants to go everywhere with you.

I'm afraid both Rob and I (and Nigella but she won't admit it) are totally smitten.

A crazy running dog

I was wandering through my pictures and found this series of shots. We had headed down to the block to check on the progress of our driveway. Nigella thought it was great, she could leap off the piles of soil and turf and run across the drive at full speed. It was hilarious.