Birdie
pet: Peg Ostrander
Dog
born Apr 6, 2019 · 7 on Oct 5, 2026breed Labrador Retriever
45linked records
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What the account says about Birdie
65 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
Peg Ostrander
2019
May 8
Fetch the puppy, 10:00
Jun 2
Gus Two. Because he was one and she's the next one. It's just math.
Jun 2
Call her Birdie, because Grandma is always looking at birds and now she can loo…
…k at the dog.
Jun 8
Birdie - balance to the breeder
Carol Hefty, near Lodi. By cheque, on top of the $300.00 deposit in April. · Birdie - balance to the breeder
Jun 8
We have a dog. Her name is Birdie. She is a yellow Labrador, nine weeks old, fo…
…urteen pounds, and she is asleep in a laundry basket beside my chair with one ear inside out.
R. said in November that we were not getting another dog, and said it again at Christmas and at Easter. Then on a Tuesday in April he came in from the shop and said that a man in his woodworking guild knew of a litter comin…
Jun 9
Birdie's papers from Carol Hefty - kitchen desk, left drawer
Jun 10
Crate, a puppy collar and lead, and large-breed puppy food
Jun 12
Birdie: home June 8, nine weeks old. From Carol Hefty's farm near Lodi. Her fir…
…st visit to Dr. Aylward was yesterday.
- 14.2 lb. Sound heart, clear eyes, a clean bill.
- Second puppy shot given. Third on July 9, rabies at 16 weeks.
- Microchipped. The number is on the clinic's sheet.
- Heartworm and flea pills begin now, by weight, monthly.
- Spay at about nine months. Dr. Aylward prefers to w…
Jun 13
Birdie - first visit, second puppy shot, microchip
Jun 14
Birdie's first visit, Dr. Aylward. Nine weeks old, 14.2 lb. Second puppy shot.…
…Microchip number 985112004417630.
Jun 16
Birdie's first weekend up north. She fell off the dock on Saturday morning chas…
…ing a dragonfly, went under, came up, and discovered that she can swim, and has had to be carried out of the lake at intervals ever since.
R. has acquired a pontoon boat, secondhand, with a canopy. He says it is for the grandchildren and for my knees. Yesterday evening he took Bev and Arnie and me round the whole la…
Jun 27
Puppy class, six sessions
Jul 6
The week of the Fourth: thirteen people, one puppy, one pontoon. Maeve is three…
…, and asked me at breakfast whether I was "the same Grandma as last time." I said I was. She looked me over and said, "You got smaller."
Theo is seventeen months old and goes straight for the water every time he is set down. Birdie has learned "sit" from Hannah, "no" from everybody, and how to open the cooler from O…
Jul 21
Birdie will bring back a stick 41 times.
Aug 9
Birdie - rabies and the last puppy shot
Finch Meadow. 32.0 lb. · Birdie - rabies and the last puppy shot
Sep 2
Labor Day at the cabin, the two of us and the dog. The last swim of the year: 6…
…6 degrees by R.'s thermometer, and I was in and out in four minutes. Birdie was in for an hour.
R. hauled the kayaks up to the boathouse this afternoon and stopped halfway up the path with his hand on a birch. I asked. He said it was the humidity. It was 71 degrees and dry.
Both loon chicks have made it and are nea…
Sep 10
R. is in the hospital. Arbor Bluff, the cardiac floor, room 4117. He is asleep,…
…or pretending, and I have come home for the night because the nurse told me to and because of the dog.
About half past two this afternoon he was raking under the honey locust. I was in the kitchen with the list for Thursday's sorting. I looked out, and the rake was lying on the grass and he was sitting on the back s…
Sep 13
Home at 2:15. He walked from the car to the back door by himself, stopped on th…
…e step where he sat on Tuesday, looked at it, and went in.
Birdie lost her mind. She is five months old and forty pounds and may not jump on him.
He is in his chair with the dog across his feet, and has asked twice whether I brought in the rake. Ellen set up the pills in a box with fourteen doors before she would s…
Dec 27
Christmas here, quietly, with Ellen's four. Birdie ate a wise man off the crèch…
…e, the wooden one.
I read "Olive, Again" in two sittings on Christmas afternoon while everyone else slept. Olive is old now, and has had a heart attack of her own, and is exactly as rude as ever.
Also this fall, in waiting rooms: "The Dutch House." A brother and sister who cannot stop driving back to look at the ho…
2020
Jan 10
Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Egret Pointe 407, February 1 to 22: $2,360.00 and $150.00 for Birdie. Dottie's statement for the stay, counting the deposit left with Wade last February. · Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Jan 14
Birdie spayed. Home the same evening in a cone, which she hated. Stitches out o…
…n the 24th.
Jan 15
Birdie was spayed yesterday. Dr. Aylward's sheet:
- The cone stays on for ten days, day and night.
- No running, jumping or stairs for ten days.
- Pain tablets with breakfast and supper for four days.
- Stitches out Friday the 24th.
57 lb, at nine months. Two meals a day now, 1 1/2 cups each.
Jan 16
Birdie - spay
Jan 21
Second shingles shot yesterday, and today I am in bed with an arm like a fence…
…post and a low fever, exactly as promised. I had the real thing in 2013.
Reading, since I can do nothing else, "The Salt Path." I believed about three-quarters of it and liked all of it.
Birdie was spayed a week ago and is in a plastic cone, with which she has cleared the coffee table twice. R. has two patients. Te…
Feb 23
Gulf Shores, February 1 to 22.
- Dottie's dog fee is $150 for the stay. Birdie is 61 lb, well under her limit of 80.
- One new bird: a clapper rail at the wildlife refuge, on the 11th. Life list 274.
Booked 2021: February 6 to 27. Deposit with Wade.
Apr 22
Birdie - annual visit, heartworm test and tablets
May 2
Going north tomorrow, to stay. What goes, in two vehicles:
The truck (Ray, the dog): the Bernina in its case, wedged with quilts; the cutting mat; two tubs of fabric; Ray's hand tools and the small lathe; Birdie's crate; the chest freezer's contents in three coolers.
The CR-V (me): Sigrid; 40 lb of flour and 10 of sugar; the pills, ninety days of everything for both of us, i…
2021
Apr 14
Birdie: annual visit yesterday. 64 lb; Dr. Aylward asked me to hold it.
What she eats:
- Purina Pro Plan, the Large Breed ADULT kind, chicken and rice. The purple bag, 34 lb.
- 1 1/2 cups in the morning (7:00) and 1 1/2 cups at night (5:00), measured with the blue scoop that lives in the bin.
- Two biscuits a day at most. A carrot is free.
- Never: grapes, raisins, chocolate, onions, anyt…
Apr 15
Birdie - annual visit and vaccines
Jul 30
For Ray, August 1 to 21, while I am in Portland. Taped to the refrigerator; a c…
…opy here.
1. Meals: there are 14 suppers in the chest freezer, labelled with the day. The other seven nights are the Nordic Table (once), Marlene's (she has asked for Thursdays), and your own devices.
2. Pills: the box is filled for three weeks. Refills are not due until September.
3. Birdie: 1 1/2 cups at 7 and at…
2022
Jan 7
Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Egret Pointe 407, February 5 to 26: $2,540.00 and $150.00 for Birdie. Dottie's statement for the stay, the deposit included. · Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Apr 2
Current, all year, since 2022. Dr. Aylward. Six to a box; reorder in April and… · birdie
Current, all year, since 2022. Dr. Aylward. Six to a box; reorder in April and October.
Apr 20
Birdie - annual visit, and the first box of the monthly chews
Oct 4
Birdie - six monthly chews
Oct 30
RAY'S KNEE: getting the house and ourselves ready. Surgery is Tuesday, November…
…8; check in at 5:45 in the morning. From the class on the 18th, the booklet, and Julia on the telephone.
THE HOUSE
- He sleeps in our own bed; the stairs are allowed. One step at a time, good leg up first, new leg down first. I sleep in Kate's old room for the first weeks.
- Rugs: every loose one is rolled up and in…
2023
Apr 21
Birdie - annual visit, and six monthly chews
Oct 4
Birdie - six monthly chews
Dec 10
Christmas 2023, in Portland, six days. We fly the 22nd. Everything for Napervil…
…le and Denver is posted by the 12th; what goes to Portland must fit two suitcases.
Sizes:
- Hannah (15): women's small. She has stopped eating meat as of October; no beef sticks in that box. A set of good coloured pencils, 72, and paper.
- Owen (12 1/2): men's small. Skates 8.
- Lucas (10): 12. A fillet knife, with…
2024
Jan 7
Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Egret Pointe 407, February 3 to 24: $2,780.00 and $150.00 for Birdie. Dottie's statement for the stay, the deposit included. · Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Mar 26
Birdie, 9:20 - rabies (the three-year) and her annual
Apr 16
Birdie - annual visit, three-year rabies, six monthly chews
Finch Meadow. Rabies tag 24-11873. · Birdie - annual visit, three-year rabies, six monthly chews
Apr 18
Rabies, three-year. Tag 24-11873. Due again April 2027.
Jul 7
Family week 2024, June 29 to July 6. Fourteen.
- NEW RULE, as of Saturday morning: no lures, hooks or rigged rods are left on the dock, ever. They go in the boathouse on the rack. Birdie found a lure of Lucas's at six in the morning and put a treble hook through her lip. The emergency vet in Minocqua (open all night; the number is on the refrigerator now) had it o…
Jul 7
The Fourth, fourteen of us, hot. Two loon chicks this year, both riding.
Hannah set up an easel at the end of the dock on Friday evening and painted until she could not see: the dock itself going out into the water, and the far shore, and the light that comes at about eight. R. looked at it for a long time and asked whether he could buy it. She said it was not for sale, and then that it wa…
Jul 8
Birdie - emergency visit, fish hook in the lip
Emergency vet, Minocqua. Sedation, the barb cut, the hook backed out. · Birdie - emergency visit, fish hook in the lip
Jul 9
Birdie got a treble hook through her lip on the dock, from a lure left out over…
…night. Emergency vet in Minocqua; a light sedative, the barb cut and the hook backed out. $286. New rule - no lures left on the dock.
Oct 11
Birdie - six monthly chews
Dec 15
Christmas 2024, in Denver. We fly out the 21st and home the 28th. Birdie goes t…
…o Naperville on the 20th; Hannah has the feeding card.
Sizes:
- Hannah (16): women's small. Paints, the good ones, from the shop Kate recommended.
- Owen (13 1/2): men's medium.
- Lucas (11): 12-14. An ice-fishing rod.
- Maeve (8 3/4): 10. December's book. Ray is building her a bookcase, cherry, to be delivered in t…
2025
Jan 5
Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Egret Pointe 407, February 1 to 22: $2,860.00 and $150.00 for Birdie. Dottie's statement for the stay, the deposit included. · Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Apr 17
Distemper and parvo (DHPP), three-year
Apr 18
Birdie - annual visit, distemper and parvo, six monthly chews
Sep 28
Portugal, October 9 to 19. Lists.
Before we go:
- Close the cabin EARLY, October 4 and 5. Boats to Pike Bay on the 3rd; I have telephoned Rod. Earl blows the lines on the 6th.
- Ray's cardiology visit is moved from the 14th to the 28th.
- My mammogram is the 21st.
- Birdie to Ellen's on the 8th, on our way to O'Hare, with her food measured out.
- Marl…
Oct 8
Birdie - six monthly chews
2026
Jan 2
Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Egret Pointe 407, January 31 to February 21: $2,950.00 and $150.00 for Birdie. Dottie's statement for the stay, the deposit included. · Gulf Shores condominium, three weeks
Mar 27
Birdie - annual visit, 9:00
Apr 15
Birdie, annual visit yesterday. Seven years old. 68 lb, which Dr. Aylward calls…
…"two pounds of treats too many."
NEW AMOUNTS:
- 1 1/4 cups in the morning and 1 1/4 cups at night. Two and a half cups a day, down from three. Same food (Pro Plan Large Breed Adult, chicken and rice), same blue scoop; I have drawn a line on the scoop.
- ONE biscuit a day. Carrots and green beans without limit.
- Not…
Apr 15
Lyme, yearly, because of the ticks at the cabin
Apr 17
Leptospirosis, yearly
Apr 17
Birdie - annual visit, three vaccines, heartworm test, six monthly chews
Finch Meadow. 68 lb. · Birdie - annual visit, three vaccines, heartworm test, six monthly chews
Apr 17
Birdie, annual visit. 68 lb, which Dr. Aylward calls two pounds of treats too m…
…any. Heartworm test negative. Teeth good. Lepto, Lyme and kennel cough shots given.
Sep 23
Reorder Birdie's heartworm chews
Oct 4
Before we close the cabin (we go up Friday the 16th; close the 17th and 18th).
DONE
- Earl: telephoned. He blows the lines Monday the 19th. His winter bill is $810.00 this year, up $30, due November 15.
- Generator serviced.
- Chimney swept in September.
TO DO THIS WEEK
1. The dishwasher: its year of warranty is nearly up, and the wheel on the lower rack has been sticking since August. Telephon…
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Facts
| Name | Birdie |
|---|---|
| Breed | Labrador Retriever |
| Date of birth | 2019-04-06 |
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Peg OstranderBirdie is pet of Peg Ostrander
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q011 What did it cost when Birdie got the fish hook in her lip? q012 What did Birdie cost us at the vet last year? q024 What happened in September 2019? I'd like the whole month back, in order. q034 Who named Birdie? q036 Make me a list of every book I have written about in my journal. q054 Hannah is looking after Birdie for the weekend. What does she eat, and how much? q174 When is the dog's rabies shot due?