"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Cats, Distractions, Playing With Weather, Ruby the Dog, Utter Silliness, videos on Apr 13th, 2010
I let Minnie outside for a little while today. Griswald is banned from the Great Outdoors because he always gets “the call of the wild” and tries to break for broader and greener pastures. Then I have to chase all over the neighborhood trying to recapture him. Also, he is very, very, very stupid and […]
Posted in Adventures, Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Family, Party, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Nov 6th, 2009
I said something recently about writing more frequently…and once again I did a lot of fun stuff, didn’t write about it, built up a backlog of postable material, got overwhelmed, and will be babbling forth a disjointed and photo-heavy entry…AGAIN. So. We went to Nebraska this past weekend-ish. We left town Halloween night, did a […]
Posted in Photo entries, Ruby the Dog, Super-Short Entries on Sep 20th, 2009
This picture of Ruby and Bagheera continues to amuse me. B-dawg has gotten so HUGE. He’s got to be around 110lb at this point and his back is level with my hip. He’s still got that silly, merry puppy personality. Ruby’s always beside herself with doggish glee when I borrow Bagheera for a playdate. 8-31-09 […]
Posted in Ruby the Dog on Jul 28th, 2009
The cats had no idea what was in store for them! A year ago, we decided to keep a stray pup that had shown up on our back step. She was sickly, ridden with vermin, and ever so pathetic, but she came around well: For a while, her snoot was kind of too big for […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, bike commuting, Distractions, Lists, Ruby the Dog, Well I'll Be Darned on Jun 13th, 2009
Just some little bits and pieces of thoughts of late: The other night when I was coming home from work, I had one of those absolutely glorious and magical rides that just makes you happy to be alive and pedalling. It has been surprisingly cool and rainy lately and there’s quite a lot of marshy […]
Posted in Ruby the Dog on Apr 1st, 2009
I borrow James & Dalia’s dogs Nieve & Bagheera pretty regularly so that they can play with Ruby (or I take Ruby over there to pester their dogs…either way, it works). I had the dogs over today ’cause Ruby was full of beans, and I personally couldn’t wear her out! I’d taken her on about […]
Posted in Ruby the Dog on Mar 25th, 2009
As you can see, our dog Ruby is one furry beast. She’s got super-fuzzy ears, a fine ruff of fur around her neck and shoulders, shaggy haunches, and an impressive plume of a tail. While she doesn’t exactly have what you call a double coat, she does have what I call a coat-and-a-half. She has […]
Posted in Distractions, Party, Ruby the Dog on Feb 25th, 2009
When all of the dogs are horizontal, you know that a good time has been had by all. Apparently, we were on the ground floor of a trend amongst our social circle of taking in abandoned puppies. Our friends Julie & Tracey took in a stray Rottweiler/GSD pup about two weeks ago. His name is […]
Posted in Cats, Ruby the Dog, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on Jan 29th, 2009
As a pet-owner, I have many nicknames for my pets, individually and collectively. I figured what the heck, I might as well highlight a bit of the silliness that is my life with critters. This one is Minnie Pearl. Mostly known as Minnie, but also as “dammit, kitty,” “kittygirl” “Little Miss” “Pesty-pest,” “small-cat,” “dumbass,” “Satan,” […]
Posted in Cats, dumb things I have done, Ruby the Dog on Jan 25th, 2009
I am obviously not a prescient woman, and have one especial blind spot in my planning; I scrub out the bathtub twice every two weeks. Okay, so I scrub it out once a week, every week. However, every two weeks, I give the dog a bath, and almost invariably, the dog gets her bath in […]