Tuesday Night Hanami

Tuesday Night Hanami

April 8, 2009
I woke up at 4:15a.m this morning with the intention of going to my first morning run in Fukuda but within about 5 seconds decided to go back to sleep. Feeling guilty about that most of the day I did a lot. Well, a lot more than I usually do. 1: Home center. More pebbles […]
Sunday Morning Hisashiburi

Sunday Morning Hisashiburi

April 5, 2009
Today was my first Sunday morning in a long time. Last week was puppy sitting, the week before was Tokyo Marathon, the weeks before then were running or raining. I got the puppies weighed and checked before 6:30, had the bike ready by 7 and was at the start right on time at 7:30. My […]
Eyes Opening

Eyes Opening

April 1, 2009
Tonight three of the puppies had their eyes open and some of them were walking rather than squirming around like slugs with legs. Here are the daily weigh ins. Every morning while Lunar is out for a toilet break I take their weights. Girls Green/Gold 364 402 428 460 480 510 560 600 645 690 […]
Tuesday Night Training

Tuesday Night Training

March 31, 2009
Finally managed to slip away from puppy duties and get on the bike. It was a fast paced training. I did 10kms before the others arrived then we started about 9:30pm. One guy escaped on the first lap and we never caught him. We tried pretty hard to catch him too. Considering I hadn’t been […]
Day 12 Puppies

Day 12 Puppies

March 31, 2009
All is well.
Day 10 Lunar & Sora & Puppies

Day 10 Lunar & Sora & Puppies

March 30, 2009
The puppies are usually sleeping and not too active yet, so to liven up these daily youtube clips I’ve got Sora to do a few Beckham impersonations and Lunar is doing a Vitoria Spice one. Not sure when I’ll be able to post a cycling message again. Hopefully tomorrow night if I resume training.
Airedale Puppy Tail Docking

Airedale Puppy Tail Docking

March 28, 2009
Well, I was quite surprised at how painless and easy this was. Our local vet wanted to charge us 25000 yen ($250)per puppy for the procedure and they had never done an Airedale before. We shopped around and decided to go to Sora’s (father) mother’s vet who did each puppy for 7000 yen ($70). That […]
Day 7 Airedale Terrier Puppies

Day 7 Airedale Terrier Puppies

March 27, 2009
Tomorrow is tail docking day. We already have somebody wanting one of the boys. I want to keep them all of course.
Day 6 Airedale Puppies

Day 6 Airedale Puppies

March 26, 2009
Lunar won’t eat her normal Science Diet dry food so I’m cooking her up liver and hearts and chicken and beef and also handfuls of tiny dried fish. Her calcium levels were a little low the other day so the fish should help. She still has diarrhea and is walking around very slowly. She is […]
5 days old

5 days old

March 25, 2009
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