Are you Near Seattle? A Very Cool Event is Happening This Weekend!
Hi Everybody! This Saturday, July 13, is Readers and Writers Seattle, 2019. I will be there along with many other writers, selling books and giving away swag, and chatting and hanging out. If you can make it, do! I’d love…
Pillow Sagas
I have journeyed far and wide, searched through stores and catalogs and even kickstarter, searching for the perfect pillow. My demands are not too grand or onerous, I think. I believe myself to be perfectly reasonable, searching for a pillow…
Di Versus . . . Whatever
Once again, I have lost. Was walking the dogs today in a lovely big park with tons of oak trees, a creek, lots of meadows and tall grasses, and squirrels. Lots of squirrels. The dogs find these highly entertaining and…
Another exciting episode of Di v. . . . .
Today brings you three Di versus events, all of which, Di lost. Okay, the blackberries were a bit of a draw. First: In a case of Di v. the dog harness: Merlin rolled over on my foot while I was…
Spring is Springing
Usually this time of year I’m ready to dig into the garden and grow things. This year . . . not so much. Part of that is because I can’t do any garden things until we put up a dog…
Dog Battles
The battle to a) not get bitten by Merlin, b)teach him not to bite, c) keep him supremely occupied and entertained, is ongoing. He’s doing better in a lot of ways. We’re also giving him a calming treat with some…
Cotton Picking
Did you ever hear that phrase? I heard it fairly frequently as a kid and not so much lately. I happened to read it today and got to thinking about how bigoted that phrase is. The phrase is always pejorative:…
Movie Annoyance or Why Did They Have to Ruin a Movie That Way?
Actually they didn’t so much ruin the movie, because that would suggest it was good enough to ruin, so much as they built it upon a super crappy premise. The movie is a 2015 movie called Vice, starring Bruce Willis…
Puppy Outing
We had our first jaunt out to the park today. Crowley’s shots are finally fully active, so we can do that without worrying about Parvo. They boys had never been and were absolutely entranced. Trying to look at and smell…
Murder Trial Parts 3 and 4
Previously I talked about attending a murder trial. If you haven’t read parts one and two, I’ll give you the links to those pages. Part I Part II What follows are the next two parts. Murder Trial Part III In…