Oh she is going to be big!!! My Hazel is one year, full grown, 27 pounds. Perfect size - not small, but not too big for me to pick her up and carry her. She won't do new stairs, so I do have to carry her quite often - whenever we are in a new place. Eventually she figures out that she can do them, but the first couple days, I have to carry her.

Airbnb! I search first for ones that take dogs, then for those that have fully fenced yards. Surprisingly many of them do. I like to be comfortable, no freaking camping for me. Full homes. The last one had a sauna.

I suppose a dog that size is going to have growing pains. Do they distress her? Or just you?

I just got a trainer. Hazel was good, but I feel a need to find things for her to do with me besides just fetch and catch and that type of thing. Also better leash skills (don't pull my arm out of my socket), come when called (even when there's a car, dog, human, squirrel etc present), stop barking at every little thing that walks by the house. She's very smart!

I'm the problem, trying to find the easiest way to get through the next moment with her, usually by sticking something in her mouth. We were just outside playing fetch with a ball. The snow is ice. It was pretty funny to watch her take these tiny mincy steps over to the ball and back. Tired her out long enough for me to type this comment, so I'm good.