Puppies

 Quincy and Conrad had a litter of pups in the spring, and instead of making a blog post for everytime we took pictures of them, I am just going to make one small one here. If you are interested in the pups, you can click here to see them.
Most of our life during the months of February, March, and April consisted with working in the orchard, with nothing really big happening...and no one was carrying around the camera. We would work the morning in the orchard, and then come home at noon or so. While mom was making lunch we would all play with the puppies. When the pups got big enough to be in the orchard it was always a morning ritual trying to get all 8 of them in a rig and head on down. By the time they were 6 weeks old they all knew how to stay in the back of a pick-up (with no tailgate), and to ride in an enclosed car.

 When the pups turned 8 weeks old, Janessa, Garrett and I went up to Portland to ship two of them off to their new homes. That was the first of the bittersweet moments of selling puppies.

 Right in the middle of it all, Janessa got a really nice camera, so the pictures got much better than the iphone I was using before.