In October of 2020, after a tumultuous year, my mom had to say goodbye to her basset hound, Trucker who you've seen on this blog before. Trucker lived a good, long life, but living without a dog was just too much for my mom. She really wanted to have a German Shepherd for … [Read more...]
Pandemic Life with my trio
Like much of America, I was sent to work from home on March 13th 2020. We thought it might be short term, but it looks to be much longer term now. My husband is also home, so it's just the 5 of us, trying to keep each other sane and not make each other miserable. My office is … [Read more...]
Duke has vertigo
More dog trouble - My rescued basset hound, Duke (age 9) seems to have vertigo. We thought he had a stroke (he still might). At 3:30 am today, he woke us up stumbling down the hall and running into walls. After a day at the vet, he's home and resting now. The vet thinks it is … [Read more...]
Tilda gets stung by bees
Tilda got into a ground hive of yellow jackets that was right in her potty area. She was stung by about a half dozen or more. Steve was out with her and she went wild thrashing around and he had to pluck them off of her. Luckily, we had an antihistamine and my friends here were … [Read more...]
Tilda at Daycare
Tilda went on an outing while we went out of town. I just love to see her able to run. … [Read more...]
A bunch of yard critters!
I thought this was an enormous cricket, then I found out it was a giant spider. I briefly thought Steve was throwing it at me. We were trying to photograph the tiniest snake we ever saw but he got away into the grass and we found 2 of the biggest spiders ever seen around here … [Read more...]