We just got a call from my mom on her way home from the vet with the last of the three litters! Bumper had eleven puppies. We can’t wait to see them.
You can keep an eye on things at my parent’s website: Blue Heaven Kennels.
Here’s a picture of the mommy, Bumper, at a dog show.
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It’s feeding time again! These are Celeste’s 6 puppies.
(On going… you can catch up at www.blueheavennewfoundlands.com)
The second litter was born yesterday. I’m helping to watch over them today. Celeste has to feed them every two hours and they nurse for over 1/2 hour. In between everyone rests up and the puppies get a Snuggle Puppy to curl up with. These are more than toys as they have a heartbeat and are warm. Sometimes they are all underneath it. Here’s what they are doing right now (there are 6 total but you can’t see them all here). The upstairs puppies (the litter of 17 that is now two weeks old) get two Snuggle puppies!
At the recent Mix n Mash 08, Bill Gates talked about how Microsoft creates their vision for software and computing and the acts upon that vision. Read more…
[A New DevLife post]
Although I wasn’t able to be in Vermont on Thursday for the Bob & Chris Roadshow or the VS2008 Installfest, I have gotten emails from Chris Bowen and others letting me know that it was a great success. Over 40 people showed up for the installfest, and I learned from Dave Burke’s blog that they also had TWO XB0X 360’s set up for folks to play with.
Larry Keyes blogged his extensive notes from the day.
Sorry to have missed it.
What I really enjoyed reading was Dave Burke’s epiphany about VS2008. The sessions from Bob & Chris really made things click for him and he’s ready to get in bed wiht VS2008. I was thinking about that becasue he said he’s seen LINQ 4 times before, but not until Thursday did he finally get to his AHA! moment with it. I believe this may have a lot to do with the fact that it’s finished, it’s deployed and in hand, rather than seeing very early bits (we’ve had 3 LINQ talks at VTdotNET in the last 1 1/2 years).
Sam Druker spends an hour talking in depth about Entity Framework in this new channel 9 video.
After I left Seattle, rather than going home as I had planned I ended up going to my parent’s house (where I still am) to attend a funeral after which I was whisked up to Canastota NY where my mom was camped out with two pregnant dogs (Celeste and Bumper) near her fabulous vet (Village Vet in Canastota) waiting for the right time to do c-sections and bring the pups into the world. Celeste had 6 beautiful puppies yesterday and I drove them back to Binghamton and am now helping out with her pups as well as the 2 week old litter of 17. Mom and my sister are still in Canastota with Bumper and they will be doing (they = vet, not my mom & sister) doing her c-section today with an expectation of 10 or more puppies.
In the meantime, what did I miss?
We were sent the entire transcript of our conversation with Bill Gates earlier this week. Keith Peters is posting it (in sections) on his blog.
Entity Framework Beta3 and the CTP2 of the tools were released. (Also, here’s a list of breaking changes) I’ve only been waiting for this for months and I can’t even look at it right now because I am responsible for precious little lives.