Friday Five – the Canine edition
#1 She’s a Southern girl. Part Border Collie with a little bit of Aussie Shepherd and Spitz. I got Chelise in New Orleans. Yes, I know that is not the way most people spell Chelise but trust me, it...
View ArticleFriday Five – The Sunflower Edition
#1 I am the sort of person that needs to be around plants and flowers and bugs and birds and stuff like that. At my last house, even though it was a rental, we put in a small native garden. When I...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to Chelsie
It was not a coincidence that today’s memory challenge was about animals. I have been trying to get up the courage to write this post. I still don’t think I have the courage but I need to write it now....
View ArticleFriday Five – The Animal Edition
1 - Thank you to everyone who shared my pain in saying goodbye to my long-time four legged friend, Chelsie. It really does help to hear from so many of you. While I miss Chelsie and will continue to...
View ArticleMeet Cassie
I’ve spent most of the week looking on Petfinder, at the animal shelters and at the various rescue groups. Once we eliminated breeds that didn’t speak to us we really didn’t have a lot of choices. We...
View ArticleMonday, Monday – an update of sorts
You know how it is - you don’t blog regularly for a while and then you think of all these things you should blog about but you don’t and you don’t have time to read and post to other people’s blogs so...
View ArticleThankful Thursday
In my typical random order - I am thankful that we found a dog trainer that I think is a great match for helping us work with Cassie. I am thankful that the company we are merging with is doing it all...
View ArticleFriday Five – the Cassie edition
Cassie has been with us almost 3 weeks now so I thought this edition of the Friday Five should be about her. #1 We are still working on separation anxiety. She has super-bonded with my husband...
View ArticleFriday Five – More about dogs
These are the thoughts going through my head this Friday: 1 – Cassie is very attached to my husband. I adore her, she has a giant chunk of my heart already, but if I had it to do over again I might go...
View ArticleFriday Five – dogs again
I’ve been trying to write this post all week but it’s been hard. So here are my five dogs things first, and then the story. #1 We met a dog named Cullen.#2 We agreed to foster Cullen.#3 Cullen came...
View ArticleNo doggy daycare for Cassie
Cassie had her evaluation for doggy daycare today. It was at the same place we do our dog training classes. It was a long shot because, as an older rescue dog (as in past the puppy socialization stage)...
View ArticleFriday five – a random edition
1. This is the new tree bench we got for the backyard. On clearance no less! Now if I could only find some chairs I liked on clearance too.(I’m debating removing the rock path. It feels a bit...
View ArticleSmile Meme
beckylevine tagged me for this and probably doesn’t realize how hard it is for me think of things that make me smile.(hulabunny however knows my struggle.) 1. My dog Cassie playing bone hockey on the...
View ArticleNew Year's Day
It is morning and I have been up a few hours thanks to the dog who can’t sleep past 7:30 no matter what time she last goes outside. I stayed up til midnight though I was ready for bed by 11, still...
View ArticleSix random things on Saturday
1. For some reason Cassie has changed her wake-up time to 6am. 7 days a week. This does not endear me to her at all. Remember, I am NOTa morning person. 2. It took me two hours to water the yard today....
View ArticleSunday thoughts
Today I: Worked on CW article. I have the interview questions but now I am worried about finding the editors to interview. That’s always the hardest part for me. Started and stopped a WFH project 11...
View ArticleCassie update
I posted this in FB and Twitter updates but not here. A few weeks ago we found a hard bump on Cassie’s side. It wasn’t irritated and she wasn’t bothering it so we decided to do the wait and see....
View ArticleCassie update 2
So the first results are back from the biopsy and the lab said it is consistent with something called panniculitis but they are not saying that’s what it is. The doctor is having a consult with the...
View ArticleSix on Saturday
1. I got the first wine barrel pot pond planted yesterday. I like it, well I will once the plants grow and stuff starts to hide the black pots that you can still see, but I really, really wish I could...
View ArticleFive on Friday – A random edition
1. I continue to see bits and pieces of Cassie’s personality returning as we taper her off the steroids however she seems to be in the 2% group that suffers from lethargy as a side-effect from the...
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