LAB TAILS

When the Gracie girl came to stay with us (while my sister and her family vacationed in Germany), I wondered if the dogs would get along oka...

Yup, the National Weather Service issued a genuine "heat warning" for our area today. And get this: it's for the next five day...

Elsie and Gracie sharing the hose spray! Ridge waiting his turn. :o) 

Yup. A heat wave. Temps approaching triple digits (Farenheit) and heat indices between 105 and 115. Our digital thermometer read 117.5 (F) ...

Yup, that's right: you see FOUR dogs in the picture on the left. We've added my sister's Golden Retriever, Gracie, to our pack f...

The dogs sure love the new room. Even Baxter (our normally afraid-of-slick-floors guy) prefers hanging in the cool of our recently finished ...

Well, it's been a while. I'm truly (honest) hoping it won't be so long between posts now. It's been a wild six weeks since m...

Hey all, Well I'm back, safe and sound but with a broken finger where it attaches to my hand. Hence, I'm writing this with one hand,...

Well, this is me after I broke my finger falling at Vic Falls. I'm still numb here in this picture after they injected my hand and ner...

Well, I think I've finally gotten blogger to work this morning! And my little camera is taking pictures just fine. It'll be a nice (...

Hey all,I'm just getting ready to leave for Zambia and am testing my little pocket camera to see if its photos will load well. I didn...

Poor Baxter, Elsie, and Ridge. They're in serious snugggle withdrawel. You see, Daddy Don traveled to Ireland and France for work last w...

Sorry folks -- it's been six weeks. And I'll only be able to do a brief update now, since next week I leave on two-week short-term m...

When I was child, one of the scariest movies to trouble my safe little world was Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Today the movie just s...

You can tell me to stop helping you put out the bird seed, but... it's just in my nature to help. :o) You can work at the computer, but....

You can read, but... only if you let me nudge and butt the book or magazine enough so that you finally give up reading and pay attention to ...