When in Doubt, Fetch it Couch!

 When you are a cute little doggie and you NEVER know what the weather is going to bring... The best thing you can do is come up with your own motto and stick to it. 

This is 10000000% Lulu's

When in Doubt

To get your sillies out

Always

Play

Fetch it couch!!

First give your best "Will you play with me face"

REALLY sell it

Then do a really big Havanese POUNCE

Bonus points for throwing it yourself down the couch to have to fetch it again

I know... It's truly amazing

Keep giving cute faces to repeat fetch it couch until you are ready for your nap.

The PAWfect motto to live by <3

Always,

Amelia 

Henry the Very Good Boy

Henry is almost FIVE months old!!!! 

This cutie patootie sent us another wonderful PUPdate and I was so excited to hear from this very good boy.

Henry and Julie continue to be healthy, happy, and as always, truly adored <3

Henry is learning how to be the best doodle just like his sister

In fact this little otter was the only pup to not jump at all in his puppy kindergarten "we do not jump" class! WOOHOO go Henry Bennett go!! 

Henry is just being the best overall good boy!

AND had his very first sPAW day!!

Thank you for the amazingly sweet and adorable PUPdate on Henry Bennett!

He is such a good boy!!!

Always,

Amelia 

You Know you are Essential Personnel When...

You know you are essential personnel when 

During bedtime routine

You go from

Supportive snuggle buddy

To beloved blankie wrapped snuggle buddy

"Look Mom, I did it!"

You aren't just here for the stories and snuggles now

You ARE the bedtime snuggles

And that deserves the highest of honors a toddler can bestow

Pink Blankie 

When you look like this at bedtime

You know you are essential personnel

"I love you Lulu!"

*SMOOOCH* I love you too Hazel!

Bedtime buddies FURever <3

To the Moon and Pink Blankie and Back!

Always,

Amelia

Not the PUPdate We Wanted to Share

 We have really heartbreaking news here from Yesteryear Acres and certainly not the PUPdate I was expecting to write this Monday. We will not be having any Fall doodle puppies this year. In all the years our family has been raising and caring for animals we have never experienced a loss like this. Our sweet Clover experienced a miscarriage over the weekend and we are extremely heart broken. We have notified the wonderful families waiting for the FURever buddy to arrive of this hard news and we are all beyond devastated. We strive to be the light that brings love and tail-wagging devotion everywhere we go and I am not only extremely upset for having this news to share, but I am so overwhelmingly sad for Clover, for us, and for my children as well. Hazel had a countdown calendar and everything just waiting for the puppies to arrive as much as their planned families were. We are all emotional and so saddened to be delivering this news. On top of our sorrow- because when you are down apparently you can always go further- Comet has had a false pregnancy. She was always a little behind Clover in due dates and experienced most signs of a viable pregnancy, fiddled around with her food in the beginning, then ate extra, tummy started to get round, her milk ducts started to enlarge for milk production and then she just stopped getting any rounder, and slowly she is starting to thin back out. And so with so much grief, we are officially announcing that we will not have any puppies this fall.  

To all the kind families willing to wait for the best friend to get here, thank you for being so wonderful during a time like this. It has been an awful weekend and it is so nice to be reminded of the kindness and warmth that humans can possess. Thank you for waiting with us and for your understanding in the things we certainly cannot control nor would we ever want to have happen. This is our livelihood, our pride, our joy, our love. Thank you for your comforting words. 

We are still planning on early Winter Doodle puppies.  We will have Havanese puppies in early December AND as soon as Miss Ruby Lou decides to cycle, we will have our Red and Apricot Double Doodle puppies - arriving in late December along with cream Goldendoodle puppies expected around that time as well. 

As always, we will continue share everything Yesteryear Acres with you, the ups, the downs, and all of our heart and soul we bring to our life every day.

With lots of big feelings and big hugs

Always,

Amelia 

"Lazy Made" Sourdough Savior

 Hi! It's me again... Blogging about sourdough! I have an awesome Yesteryear Acres FURever family member pen pal! I adore her and all her awesome baking ideas!!! I cannot wait for one of our upcoming puppies to be in her home and be so loved and surrounded by homemade baked goodness! I look forward to our baking chats with sooo much happiness. She sent me a method for making "lazy sourdough" and I was baffled!! With all her epic notes and tips/tricks from trying it herself plus my starter, I was finally ready to take the leap of faith and disregard everything I knew to be tried and true in the art of making sourdough bread and make "lazy" bread. 

So at 2:30am I started the bread process. I weighed out my starter

Added water, flour, and just the right amount of salt

Gave it a rough mix until incorporated 

And put it inside an oiled ziplock bag. AND WENT TO BED

I left it untouched on the counter top...

No stretch and folds every 30 minutes for four rounds

No babying

NOTHING

Just okay... goodnight then hopeful bread

For about 15(ish) hours it just did it's own thing in the bag

When it looked poofy enough, I poured the dough out, gave it a quick shaping and tossed it into the fridge for another 12 hours

After the cold proof, I scored the bread and put it in the oven to bake

The GASP of wonderment that left my body when I pulled the lid off for the rest of the bake time...

PURE MAGIC! Look at that beauteous loaf!

WHY is it so perfect when I practically neglected it in comparison to the other loaves I have made?!?! 

Sorcery! 

AND I LOVE IT!

This entire loaf of bread was gone by the end of dinner.

Lazy sourdough has just saved our family from bread starvation!! I found out that my SISTER BOUGHT sourdough bread the other day because I have been too busy to bake bread. 

THE AUDACITY!

Never again!!! The Lazy Sourdough method is a HUGE success!

Thank you Sourdough Buddy!!!

You have saved us all!

Always,

Amelia

Somebody's Watching Me Caturday

 Do you ever feel like someone may be watching you?

Happy Caturday!

Would you like a kiss

Are you upside down or am I?

I always feel like.......

Somebody's watching me

Happy Caturday from our little peepers!