I am still alive ( Read more... )

I suspect that a good many people are under the impression that Cobie is the brawn and Kelly is the brains of the canine part of the pack. Me, I'm not so sure ( Read more... )

Yesterday the dogs decided they were going with me to the Kid Factory to pick up Zor. Yes, I know who is supposed to be in charge, but they staked out the van for a half an hour.


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Recently some (annoying know-all) person said something to me along the lines of, "From reading your FaceBook, it looks like dogs have taken over your life ( Read more... )

Last night the maple in the front yard accumulated so much ice it sagged within inches of the front of the house. When I turned on the garage light to let the dogs out, the two front lights came on too and lit up the ice on the tree. When the wind blew, the limbs twitched and jerked as though it had contracted some kind of palsy. It reminded me ( Read more... )

What more is there to say about winter? At least it isn't hot. In fact, brr. It's hard to get me brrry, but when I'm hotflashing like whoa, and wet all the time, taking the trash out is an adventure in survival. I'm actually sparing brain space to things like consolidating trips to the garage. Pitiful ( Read more... )

Winter grinds on. It rained for two straight days and covered everything with ice, yuck. Then it started to snow. Welcome to winter in Ohio. Get over it, or get Prozac ( Read more... )

It's hard to come up with things to blog about when your head is full of a story you can't talk about. Not that it's a high secret, or that I think anyone would steal it. It's just my experience that talking about a newborn story in public is like taking a newborn baby on a crab boat ( Read more... )

It broke my heart to do it, but for the last few Cobie and Kelly have been in a power struggle over the dog bed. Well, mostly Cobie, who refuses to go to bed if Kelly's in it. He paces and paces, his tags jingling and jingling, around the bed. Upon giving up pacing, he'd woof at her head a couple of times, which she ignored. Then he'd go lie ( Read more... )

I have been slacking on the posts again, obviously. The good news is, I finished the revision. Well, I finished the revising part of the revision. I still have to type the corrections I made on hard copy into the final document, and write the synopsis ( Read more... )