December means that another year has come and gone for Penny and Lucy. Penny is 13 this month and Lucy is 12. We have been extremely fortunate that both have been very healthy, very active girls all their lives. We’ve been out the last few days hiking a bit. The old girls sure do love [...]

When we went to bed on Monday night, the weather forecast said to expect a mixture of snow and rain. This was what we woke up to instead. Over a foot. And while I shoveled, and shoveled, it just kept snowing. 4 1/2 hours later, I can say that if my husband had a list [...]

For once, the weather forecast was correct. They said snow in the evening yesterday and through the night, but that the accumulation wouldn’t be much. That’s exactly what happened. We woke up to about 3 in. of snow but it’s all pretty much melted now. I did get a couple pictures of the view of [...]

This was just absolutely gorgeous, but by the time I got a chance to run in and grab the camera, the sun was setting faster than I’d hoped. I snapped a few pictures, but it just didn’t do it justice. There was a beautiful sunset over the mountains that had just gotten another coating of [...]

I’ve been sorting and organizing, and I finally got around to tackling the task of sorting through Zoe’s ribbons. When we started doing agility, I used to hang her ribbons up, and then I got a big photo album thing and started putting them in there at some point. Then, eventually, as the years went [...]

It seems pretty obvious to state that there are multitudes of methods for training dogs. Lately though I’ve been thinking about how one of the privileges of having multiple dogs is that you get constant reminders that one method does not work for all…even if it’s one we are most comfortable with. Over the years, [...]

It’s that time of year again. Time for me to start searching for good ways to melt snow and ice. Actually, I haven’t had much use for snow and ice melt yet, but the colder temps always make me start thinking in that direction. Anyway, I was watching the news today and they were reporting [...]

Penny’s favorite time of year has always been the winter. Ever since she was a little pup one of her favorite things to do in the snow was either to bury her head and up to her eyes and run, plowing as she goes, or have a good roll through the snow. Well, on our [...]

I have a confession. I may have passed over a line that no one should admit. I wanted to do a post about the walk that we took yesterday with the dogs, but the pictures that I want to post are on the desktop computer and that is waaaay in the back of my 900 [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about contentment. I’ve decided that the whole system we live in, our whole environment is geared to make us discontent. We constantly bombarded with advertising to tell us that we would be happier if we just had the latest and newest of everything. Especially this time of [...]