When I was wrestling with Rosie after I first got her, I had no idea she would end up being a little sweetheart. She's a year old now. Lost so much of her puppyhood to the Puppy Strangles ( Read more... )

My schnoodle pup, Rosie, is finally starting to be her old self again. She has been so sick for about a month. It took them almost 2 weeks to finally diagnose that she had something called Puppy Strangles. It's a bizarre immune reaction. Fortunately, they say that once cleared up, it doesn't come back. It is so good to see her bright eyed and ( Read more... )

Last night I was suddenly knocked offline. Not uncommon with dial-up. I tried reconnecting and got "no dial tone". Dead modem? Without lightning? I decided to just head to bed so I shut the computer down and unplugged the phone line (lightning protection) and found myself holding the plug and 4 inches of phone cord. Found the other end, both ( Read more... )

Dear Rosie, the Tasmanian Devil dog has kept me busy untangling yarn and string all day. I'd get a skein of yarn straightened out, and there she'd be with a "skein" of beading twine. Finish that and another skein of yarn is in a heap. Obviously she has finally found the main source of yarn, but I can't figure out how she gets to it. Sum total of my ( Read more... )

Spent 2 days grouping my container garden into "will freeze" and "won't freeze". Covered the tender plants with tarps and brought the house plants in. I need to open up more window space for the new house plants. Sooooo, no frost. It was early for a first frost, usually it's somewhere in the first week of October. But, it's the old rule--if I hadn' ( Read more... )

Icon of the new puppy. The schnoodle. She's nuts, bouncie, yappy, and adorable.
Pippin doesn't think much of her. They sleep withing feet of each other, but
every night around 9-10pm they bark at each other for about an hour.

Having trouble house breaking Rosie. (The only female Hobbit name we knew)

This is so disturbing to me. They're trying to improve education and test scores ( Read more... )

I got my first site of spring today. The winter aconites are blooming as the snow
melts off of them. I could see a patch by the driveway. Time to bring out some of
the flower icons.

Okay, US readers....follow the link and read the whole article. Michigan's new governor is setting up some awfully scary things if you happen to like Democracy. He's *insane ( Read more... )

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40990339/ns/health-behavior/