The day after the Christmas Tree Cutting Party in 2019, my mother and I got into the car, leaving a mess and a house full of people behind us, and drove at the safest top speed we could, to a house in Lexington, Texas. My mother was practically quivering with excitement the whole time.


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Graham talked to her owners. She didn't break anything. The car saw her and braked hard, and while she was hit, it wasn't as bad as it could have been.  The person in the car stayed with her until the owners got to the vet, and there were dozens of calls to the vet's office to make donations.  The dog people on social media in this city are pretty ( Read more... )

So I'm innocently working, and I get a message that I've been tagged on a post in facebook.  I click.  I regret ( Read more... )

Fusilli just jumped on the couch!  He's 12 weeks old today ( Read more... )

Fusilli went to the ranch this weekend.  He had a BLAST and thought that the ranch was great fun.  He went flying through the screen porch because he saw me and Graham on the patio and thought it was unfair that we were there and he wasn't.  He also discovered that it's lots of fun to play with his sister in a bigger house.  He didn't understand ( Read more... )

So shortly after Crianza died, I e-mailed her breeder to let her know what had happened. Irma had already been in the loop about Crianza's illness, but since we didn't have a diagnosis until the day she died, she didn't know what had been wrong with her.  I thought that she needed to know.  In the e-mail, I said that Celosa really does best when ( Read more... )

Noir, the cat that's not our cat, had a rough day yesterday ( Read more... )

My friend Normal is saying goodbye to her Diva today ( Read more... )

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My mother told me while we were at the gym this morning that my uncle reported yesterday that the dog won't leave my grandmother's side ( Read more... )