This is Gunner

And now there are two in the pond

I am a Decorative (tole) painter. MY favorite items to paint are Front door plaques and signs, Wall Hangings, birdhouses, and what ever is available.  Hand Painted baseball caps, visors and wide brim hats.  I have been working on fall and Winter, can't wait to get them up on line, but had an accident, my camera froze. I went and purchased a new battery and still no luck. I have to get it repaired and I will probably buy a new one.

I have two children, My son and his wife just had their first child a beautiful little girl, and my daughter who has a beautiful 13 yearold....(how time flies)  He is 13 going on 30.  I am 5'2" and he now towers over me.

I have been married forever.  My husband travels alot so I get lots of time to paint.  He is also a avid fisherman, loves to fish the summers in Lake Erie for Walleye and Perch. He also does as much ice fishing as he can.  We have had a lot of wind this year, so the fishing hasn't been that great.  When he is home it has been either raining or very windy. We do a lot of boating in the summer. Many evenings just sitting in the harbor relaxing on the boat. Went out yesterday and came home with 2 perch and 1 walleye. 

We're going to try tonight, the lake is like glass.  I love it like that, especially in August, on a clear night with the northern lights over Buffalo.  It's like taking a ride to Heaven.  He is also an avid hunter.  He comes home to eat and sleep so I have a lot of time to paint. 

Last summer my husband brought home a new puppy, a Golden Retriever, they said? My grandson named him Gunner, he is full of spunk, he races around the yard and house like a greyhound and barks like a hound dog. Sometimes when he barks he scares himself and jumps off all four legs. At night he is my lap dog, sometimes making it hard to see the TV. He thinks the decorative pond is his pool,low hanging tree branches are swings,and my bushes belong in the kitchen. If I lay a hose down while it is running, he brings it to me. no matter where I am? Lately he has been helping me load wood for the wood burner, I found a log in his bed. 

Gunner has a new friend, my husband brought home a 8 week old black lab.  His name is Shadow, he is still a little shy and growing fast.  Alot of fun..... 

I love watching the two together. Gunner tries to catch the squirrels and Shadow follows next to him.  Gunner is now the big guy.  Gunner has a habit of hanging his tongue out of his mouth, especially when it is hot.  The puppy grabs hold of it and tries to pull him around.  Yesterday, they were making butter, they had each others tails and kept going in circles.

As you can see we had to move the pond, it was too close to the kitchen, with the mud......