Saturday morning Clementine the dog was being a little restless, so I sat down on her loveseat to see if a little focused affection would calm her down. This loveseat is a piece of rented furniture that we’ve long-since bought and paid for, which is a little galling, since it’s such an ugly thing. It’s […]

I forgot. Early spring isn’t really a very attractive time of year.

You’d think I’d remember, but I never do. Poets are so full of good words about spring that I get lulled into thinking that a good time will be had by all. And then the weather warms up, the sky goes from concrete white […]

When I got a dog, I found out that some of my assumptions about dogs were wrong. I thought dogs bounded around all day long, since dog-people regularly remark on the lethargy of cats. Nope, I don’t know what breed of dog those people had, but our Clementine maps her day out in terms of […]

Earlier this week, temperatures fell into the single digits and everyone bundled into coats and blankets and hunkered down to keep warm. But today the temperatures have drifted nonchalantly above freezing, the somewhat fitful February sun is making an appearance, and I find it in my heart to believe that yes, the seasons might actually […]

My little town is putting on a fall festival this weekend, and so they had scheduled a parade for this morning. But with the usual contrariness of weather, it seems like they have been granted the very worst day ever on which to hold a parade. Yesterday’s mild temperatures have dipped down five degrees, and […]

End of summer fun: just before you close the community pool for the year, let the dogs in.
I’m probably a little bit more of a cat person than a dog person, but there are some things you just can’t do with a cat (unless you’re wearing full body armor).

BTW, the link to the 2007 Plunge […]

It’s a drizzly day and the mood of the house is sleepy. The dog cracks me up on days like this. Her hunting-dog half is handily overmastered by her lap-dog half where rainy days are concerned. The weather has been so mild that the hibernating creatures have woken up and during our morning time we […]

We’ve gotten to that part of October. The sky outside is postcard blue, and the air outside feels so cold and clean you wish you could bathe in it. But I’m still glad I’m not in the high school marching band that I hear. Apparently, they have to practice the walking-and-chewing-gum thing — marching and […]

Spring has been cool this year. Not ‘cool’ as in ‘neato’ … just colder than we want. But the sunlight was dappling through this afternoon, and so I decided to go outside when I let Clementine into the back yard for her 2:00 Check Stuff Out duty.
Clementine has been getting more barky as she sheds […]

Where’s a dog to look first? I took Clementine out on the rare Morning Walk just because I wanted to get some shots of some of that amazing early light through the leaves. Plus with Clem’s blue-tick fur, I thought she’d be an interesting contrast against the leaves.

Well, mission accomplished and all that, but Clementine […]