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<\/a><\/p>\nShe is the sweet puppy of my cousin. After the Minnesota winter rained on my parade once, we finally found a not too frigid morning that actually had sunshine to make this photo shoot happen. But you know what really gets me about that last statement? That apparently Winter is starting in October this year. Not Cool Minnesota, I don\u2019t think you checked with your residents on that one. None of us are ready or happy about it and unless you plan to quit winter in February this year, I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair.<\/p>\n
Phew.<\/p>\n
At most holiday events I haven\u2019t gotten the chance to spend much quality time with Gracie discussing life\u2019s conundrums such as why dogs eat twice a day but people get to eat as many times as they want. Or why Odie always got kicked off the counter by Garfield. So it was fun to see her at home in her element with her mama. She is a sweet and energetic little lady who is pretty darn good at sharing the insides <\/em>of her toys.<\/p>\n After toy time we ventured outside into the backyard that overlooks a lake\/pond type body of water. With the sun a shining, it was a gorgeous view!<\/p>\n \u2026Well there you have it. Little Gracie. Just a taste of images for now, but there might be some others later. You\u2019ll just have to wait. And. See. Enjoy your gloomy Thursday morning\u2026 it\u2019s ishy here, I just hope it\u2019s not where you are.<\/p>\n But there is an up side to today. Tomorrow is FRIDAY. Hot Dog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meet Gracie\u2026 She is the sweet puppy of my cousin. After the Minnesota winter rained on my parade once, we finally found a not too frigid morning that actually had sunshine to make this photo shoot happen. But you know what really gets me about that last statement? That apparently Winter is starting in October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[456,37,452,127],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choco-moose","category-dogs","tag-choco-moose","tag-dog-portraits","tag-dogs","tag-gracie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bqtn-bB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n