About two years ago on Christmas Eve, my wife and I decided we were going to take the leap. We were going to give our daughter the gift of all gifts… a puppy.
We basically gift wrapped a card that when opened revealed to our 6th grade daughter a coupon eligible for one puppy.
Well, we had full intentions of getting her that puppy that very same Christmas holiday, but I think we all realized that we were not ready just yet.
So we regrouped, told our daughter that she would in fact be getting a puppy, but that it might take a little longer than we first thought. She surprisingly took the news well. She did however remind us through the next couple of years of our promise. I was baffled by how understanding she was about the whole thing.
Anyway, earlier this year on one of our visits to our new weekend getaway in the Catskills mountains of upstate NY we stopped for ice cream. The place was called the “Bun-n-cone” and was located in Margaretville NY. On my way out with my ice cream ( Perry’s Ice Cream, an upstate NY brand) I spied a flyer of a lady selling Labrador puppies.
That lady ended up being the owner of a farm called “Breezy Acres” and she didn’t have any puppies from that litter but she did have another litter due from her Labrador named “Maggy” due in about a month from the time I called.
Well to make a long story a bit shorter, we called her about a month later and found out that we had several puppies to pick from….
We went up the following weekend and found our Koko:
We named Koko after the Hawaiian word for chocolate, which is Koko-leka. As a former Army officer, my last duty station was in Hawaii and my family now calls that paradise a second home hence our affinity for all things Hawaiian.
We would then come back two weeks later to breezy Acres to pick up Koko and bring him to his new home.
This blog is intended to be a record of Koko’s life.
Be warned though, I like to write, take pictures, AND I’m an ecommerce guy, so this blog will be a hopefully a nice mix of all of those interests.
Thanks for joining us, as our family welcomes Koko into our lives.
(This particular post is always a work in progress, so always to be continued…)