Me and Mr Millan

I'm ending Friday as happy as a clam because, yep, Spot and I got the chance to fulfill just about every dog owner's dream this week - Hang out with Cesar Millan, who'd made his first ever trip to Toronto to talk about Swiffer and creating a clean and calm pet - and people - friendly home. But not just Cesar, since his gorgeous and incredibly calm Blue Pitbull, Junior, was also on hand for moral (and hand licking) support. And yes, of course I peppered him with tons of questions on Spot's bad habits which, no surprise, mostly came down to training, and letting our mischevious little Whippet know exactly who's boss...

That first shot shows Spot relaxing in his smart black Chilly Dogs coat before our meet-and-greet. The next shows me and Cesar chatting on the couch (I totally get what he said about not making cleaning stressful, and how your dog can pick up on those cranky vibes). And then the final snap caught Cesar in mid "Tsst" when Junior and Spot were getting a tad too rambunctious. Major thanks to writer/photographer Laura Muir (check out her cool blog here) who kindly came along and took all the pictures.

  

Pretty clean

Jerry was the last worker to sand anything in the house which (yay!) means the reno is finally complete and we can get onto the 'pretty' stuff. We've had a painter quote on the trim work and my absolutely great wallpaper guy, Rod Dunn, came by to look at all the papering that'll be happening in the house. In the meantime, we set about with a top-to-bottom clean of the house tryng to rid it of any remaining bits of construction dust that might be floating about. Of course drywall dust is the death knell for any vacuum cleaner so a microfiber duster and good all purpose cleaner will definitely do the trick. One of the latest cleaners we've been trying out is the J.R. Watkins natural plant-based All Purpose Cleaner. It not only does the trick it looks pretty doing it, plus I loved reading on their website about all the ingredients it doesn't have in it (lol). Have a boo below at some of the products in the line.