Oct 08 2008
Our new addition!
Ok, it’s been quite a while since we posted anything. We’ve just had a new addition to our family and he has been keeping us extremely busy!
Behold our little bouncing boy called Barley:
Barley is a 10 week old Golden Retriever puppy. He’s very cute and very friendly, and has eyelashes that girls would sell their grannies for. Everyone who meets him falls instantly in love with him - he has our whole neighbourhood charmed. Even Toby the cat can’t help but tolerate him 
However, to any of you who now simply must have a puppy, make no mistake - it’s hard work. I’ve already been interrupted 3 times while writing this post. Once to feed him, again to pick up his poo, and again to disentangle his jaws from my ankle. He’s not yet convinced about going for walks (I’m in the process of lead training him), but he still needs to burn off his boundless energy.
Puppies are just like that. He’ll grow out of the insane phase in a few months, and he’ll grow up to be the nicest, most handsomest coolest doggie in the whole wide world 
In the meantime, we’ll get the cookzors posts going again (maybe with a couple of Barley progress reports thrown in).
And we’ll be very, very busy….
Aw… I’m not a dog person at all, but even I have to admit that he’s gorgeous! I love the name too! Best of luck!
I know ye have been having yer hands well more than full with this little guy, but hold in there, he will grow out of it and by gum he melts my heart every time I see him
and if ye need a break anytime Keith and I will babysit him so ye can have a breather 
I love you Barley,
Your Aunty Lette
Hi JD, your cousin here, congrats on your new addition, he is absolutely gorgeous!! You might find it takes a few years rather than a few months for him to grow out of his insanity though! But..it’ll be great fun. Did you hear about our new addition?
All the best
Mary
Hi Mary, welcome to Cookzors!
Saw the pic of your new kitten Molly. She’s lovely. And I hear she’ll sit on your lap too, not like our cat, Toby. Toby doesn’t like to be too far away from us, but he’d never let us think that he likes us!
Say hi to all the family for me.
JD
What a cutie!