And Just Like That…
…life tumbled again. The Tuesday night before Halloween, I felt a baseball-sized mass just behind and below Athena’s ribs. She’d been having some incontinence issues that I was treating as…
Read moreThe Golden Retriever’s Owner
I didn’t really want to walk the dogs one night earlier this week (okay, most nights this week). It was cooler and windy and threatening to rain – it had…
Read moreVariety News: March 1, 2022
Photo of the Week General Discussion One year ago, we walked over to the parking lot at the church across the street from our house and introduced Athena to Apollo.…
Read moreVariety News: February 1, 2022
Photo of the Week Apollo & Athena, watching and snoozing. General Discussion I’m making an effort to change my perspective on food this year, because I really need to lose…
Read moreSpringy Spring
The front yard landscaping is done! Huzzah! We’ll spend the next several years paying for it, but it looks great, and is very low maintenance, which was the main goal.…
Read moreFlirting with Danger
You know how it feels to walk headlong into a gust of wind so strong you really have to lean into it in order to walk? That’s kind of how…
Read moreSpring, Renewal, & Moving On
The sun is shining, the weather is beautiful (at least for now), there’s a bobcat in our front yard because the landscapers we hired last fall are finally starting work…
Read moreOn Loss, Remembrance, and Renewal
Last Wednesday, we said goodbye to the Murphy-dog. I’m still not one-hundred percent sure what happened, because he was doing better, and then just sort of crashed, but due to…
Read moreDoggie Vertigo, Routines, & Other Stuff
You know how when you set up a bunch of new routines that are almost guaranteed to be successful just because you’ve done the research and testing and everything is…
Read moreVariety Pages – March 9, 2020
It had been a particularly windy day when I came across these pants while walking to my car after work. I often pass discarded articles of clothing, but they’re normally…
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