Welcome, Dan.

Here's a picture of Dan, our 4th puppy. His parents are Simon and Tess. His birthday was 3/8/12 - exactly 14 months after France was born.

France @ 1 year

This is France's 1 year old birthday picture. January 8, 2012. Jim took France to the Brickyard Cove Marina and captured our puppy's expression in the late afternoon sun.

Handsome guy!

France's last day at Yoshi's

France has gone with me to Kinuko's hair salon once a month for the past year. He owns the place. Today is his last visit to Kinuko's. France's recall date is May 21 (although it still needs to be confirmed). We are beginning the period of recording France's "last" visits to all the places he has frequented since March 19, 2011.

He also owns Yoshi, haircutter extraordinaire!

 And Yoshi's wife, Hitomi. They love France and have loved him since the first time they saw him.

France always enters the salon in his puppy coat. He sleeps in front of the chairs while I am shampooed and shorn. Then I take his puppy coat off and he visits with Yoshi and Hitomi. It's hard to tell who enjoys the puppy rubs more.

France @ Kaiser

France and I went to Kaiser to pick some things up from the pharmacy. We sat down to wait our turn and saw a little boy sitting with his mom just across from us. The boy was shy, his mom said he was afraid whenever he left home. France just kept looking at him; the boy kept looking at France. The attraction was irresistible.

Good boy France!!!!

France at 15 months

I've been totally remiss about posting about our little BLM, France. He's a big boy now and ready for recall. Rumor has it he will be on the list for the May 21 recall. That has to be confirmed, so the actual date may be later. We're making plans, though, for May 21.

Here is France on his 15 month birthday. He's very long, tall and weighs 70 pounds. He's by far the largest puppy from his litter. His brother, Fred, went to Oregon with the April 19 recall. Their sister, Filly, is in San Rafael at breeder evaluation. Their other sister, Fiona, was career-changed.

I hope to post some pictures to "fill in" many of these past months. France has been a delight to live with -- he's a soft dog with a sweet personality.

Puppy club outing at the Hamilton Fire Station

 Our puppy club visited the Hamilton Fire Station in Novato. The folks there were great -- they led the puppy parade through the station, started engines, blew sirens, opened up the ambulance for the puppies to walk through and showed us all their gear. We had a great time!

 Lovely group photo. For more pictures of the outing, click on this link:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112987909984668507901/albums/5682127833676116113
It will take you to a Google+ photo album.

I'll try and upload all the pictures from there to this blog later this weekend.

France and Half Dome

Here's a picture of France and me in front of Half Dome. It was pretty cold -- for us coastal folks. France did really well on his first trip to the mountains. More later.