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Dreamed early this morning about pointing out to someone where on the bed each dog sleeps. Explained that Penny goes under the covers, and Carter lies in a straight line along the edge. (He doesn't! He curls up behind a pillow against the headboard. But Penny, when she doesn't wander away when I get in bed, does want to get under the covers ( Read more... )

It's often adorable that Carter curls up on the bed near my head, but when he's restless, it's not so good for my own slumber! I woke up early this morning with the realization that there was a paw twitching on my left hand. He was probably just dreaming, but he's certainly been affected by the storminess the last few days ( Read more... )

Penny and Carter and Apollo the yellow lab puppy neighbor all sat and stared at each other for a few minutes while Apollo's person and I chatted this morning! He was a teeny potato when we first saw him, and he's now a beautiful little man!

He's nervous about meeting dogs, so he didn't want to come any closer, and as they headed back to their door ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't been following along on Facebook, a clogged sewer pipe backed up and flooded my basement. I discovered this two weeks ago when I went downstairs to do laundry and discovered an inch or so of not-quite-water on the floor. Hard to tell how long before that the flood started ( Read more... )

My two stinkers ate half of my Papa John's Epic Meatz™ pizza the other night! One of them pulled the box off the top of Carter's crate, where I had set it when I got home ( Read more... )

I finished the 2014 season of "Ray Donovan" with a couple of episodes last night, and have now watched the first three (oops!) episodes of the 2015 season tonight, while the dogs take turns chewing on an elk hoof and hanging out on the couch next to me or on my lap ( Read more... )

Last night I noticed a repeated, well, odor issue! I was on the couch with the dogs, and kept smelling it. Well, tonight I think I figured out what happened ( Read more... )

I don't have time for a lot of writing this afternoon, since I'm heading to Hamilton in a little bit for the women's hockey game, but I wanted to take a moment to mark this milestone. I'm under 200 pounds! It's the first time in a long time ( Read more... )

Poor pup had quite a day. He seemed to have settled in very quickly, but I need to remember he's still new to his environment and, I'm sure, feeling that way ( Read more... )