Someone needs to take this dog hunting. It would be the only kind thing to do. It’s all Clementine really wants to do at this time of year (except sleep, which is a year-round kind of love). It’s obvious that her nose is telling her of wonders all around us, and there I sit like […]

The weather is turning nicer here in God’s country, which means two things:

farmers can start complaining and
the possiblity exists for Clementine and I to take the wonderful and elusive long walk

(If you thought you read #1 wrong you didn’t. The farmers complain when the weather is nice because it means more work […]

Well, I didn’t mean to leave things so long that I would be having the State of the Union address going on, but I did, so I might as well blog.
(But first, the dog is restless. And with all due regard to Mr. President, the dog’s business most certainly takes priority. Plus, I’m recording …)

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Okay, […]

WHOMP!
It must have made that noise, though I slept through it. But we got so much snow in such a short time, it had to have sounded something like that. I took the dog out at nine-ish last night and there was no snow. We’d been hearing that we would get snow, and so I […]

With the days getting shorter and Clementine the Dumb but Pretty Hound-dog unable to grasp the concept of Daylight Savings Time, she’s been bugging me for the end-of-day walk earlier and earlier. Today it happened to fit in with some afternoon apathy about work, so we did the rare 4:00 walk. It was a good […]