caring bear stare

My family is visiting us to help with the painting right now. And this dog? This dog right here is an absolute hit with them. She may be rather crap on leash. She may slobber all over your face every damn time you bend down to tie your shoe. She may kind of smell regardless of [...]

still sleeping

This is Mickey’s little paw and the tip of his scruffy tail. Slowly, slowly these little paws are spending more time with John and less time with me. So are Kayloo’s. We think it’s probably a good idea for the dogs to get used to getting less of my attention because when the baby crashes this [...]

doing the dirty work

Mickey models while Kayloo helps John in the background. John is setting his watch before doing sit ups, push ups etc in the hallway and Kayloo figures she’s hit the jackpot because John is RIGHT THERE within licking distance for whole minutes at a time. Mickey thinks exercise is overrated.

strange love

Goofy Kayloo helping me pack for our trip. We call that little dog between Kayloo’s paws her “boyfriend.” When you push his foot he sings a little ditty, “I gotta whole lotta love… for you! Whole lotta love…!,” and flaps his ears and legs around. Kayloo loves him. The Boyfriend sits up on a shelf [...]

priorities

You know when you are fully aware that encouraging certain activities is a COMPLETELY bad idea but you do it anyway because it’s entertaining? Yeah, letting two goofy dogs play fight through a defenceless screen door would fall under that category. But it was funny. And I made them stop right away… after I got [...]

hold yer horses, woman

So far being pregnant feels pretty darn good. Well, the first trimester was… unpleasant. Pleasant in that I was excited to be pregnant, but unpleasant in that morning sickenss sucks. Did you know that morning sickness can go on ALL DAY LONG. Yeah, it can. Way to go naming it morning sickness, y’all. I was [...]

halo

Kayloo under a halo of light on laundry day (I’ve thrown her bed cover in the wash in the never ending (never winning) quest to banish the fur).

don’t worry, mickey…

Don’t worry, Mickey. We’ll still love you when the baby comes… (and your crazy sister too…)

some changes around here

He’s cute, sure. But this little furball can also be a gigantic pain in the ass. There are some changes that have to happen around here with my dogs before this baby arrives at the end of March. That is the kind of thing my dad would say when my brother and I were kids, [...]

tattle tail

I was out for a lovely afternoon walk with the dogs a couple days ago. It was shaping up to pretty much be a perfect walk. It was warm and sunny, and the dogs were trotting along behind me like they were some kind of saints/someone else’s dogs. And then I felt someone purposefully walking [...]