This is such a wonderful portrait! I hope the good times here offset the other tribulations you've described.

I understand that the tyre couldn't be plugged, but what about fitting a tube? or isn't that done any more in the US?

Not so good an update for us today but you've still made a stunning picture of youthful cheerfulness. Gosh this good!

Hey you put as many sloppy shots up you want, I just lap em up.

those eyes! Nice puppy shot. well done.

Another day and more smiles. Mabel's looking well. I for one, am enjoying not enduring your pictures - it's an enthralling saga. And you get to use so many lenses

Cute beyond words,

Hallelujah! Truly you now live in the land of milk and puppies.

ROFL I was wondering how this beast crept into the sequence!

Hugely encouraging!