Swamp Things
(cue ominous music) When it rains heavily, the back of the property turns into a wet, grassy swamp. This makes all of my dogs (except Dexter) ridiculously happy. They get to swim, splash and bounce around like morons. They also get to hunt. Although really, I don’t know what they are hunting for. Maybe for [...]
Blackie Spit Off Leash Park
The dogs give it Two Tongues Up. The “dry” off leash area was all sandy, so no mud!! (Big improvement over, say, my own property) And it had dogs for Wootie to play with. He was so excited he used his magical powers to transform his Flamboyance ™ into the back end of a cattle [...]
Farm Dogs
are too poor for real toys. They have to make do with old milk jugs, and sticks. Which they may or may not find whilst digging up the horse paddock OMG! Are we poor? Yes Dexter, we are very poor! And we almost got a lot poorer recently too. The other day, we thought Piper [...]
Pineapple Express
Being no stranger to the PNW and its wet weather patterns, I was unsurprised (but unimpressed) to awake a couple of days ago to relentless, pounding, whipping, freezing and CONSTANT punishing rain that lasted for days and days. I don’t *like it* but I wasn’t shocked or anything. I wasn’t even surprised when late afternoon [...]
Fitting in
Listen kid, if you want to be a part of this family, you’ll listen to my advice. First things first – you can’t be afraid of Mad Teeth ™. No hiding. Face your fears And give ‘em as good as you get ‘em.Ha ha! That’s my boy. He’s learning the ropes around here pretty good [...]
This is great
The view this afternoon from my patio doorThey all touched down in the big pines surrounding my yard, and sang for about half an hour. The noise was deafening, but amazing. I think they were red winged blackbirds.This is NOT so great:That’s after ONE potty trip, and right after those mats were freshly washed. The [...]
Home, Home on the Range
We’re back! Did you miss us? We are finally all moved in. That’s not the same as being settled in or even the same as being unpacked. But why waste time unpacking when we can be exploring our new neighborhood? We are located at the end of a dead-end road and surrounded by dykes and [...]
