Personal Space

I hate the conversations that begin with “Does your dog bite?”
Especially when he/she is holding a squirmy, sticky toddler. There is no good out that I have yet figured. If I say no, she will ask “Can Bitsy pet it?”–it’s always “it” like I’m walking a table.
If I say yes, they draw back in horror, [...]

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Pin Cushions

Just go a late Friday call from the vet. All the blood drained from my head before she said her first words. Zephyr’s on the fence. She wants to run MORE tests. Be certain about Cushings Disease. Back to the vet on Monday. Blood draw, something injected, wait eight hours, draw blood again. . . [...]

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Raising Dogs

I was reminded last night of how dogs are like children, except they don’t grow up and go away to college. A woman on twitter announced her dog had been chewing on a dead squirrel from behind her shed and was sick. I immediately though “rat poison!” which I didn’t yell to scare her, although I’m sure [...]

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Triple Digit Sadness

The world is freaking me out today. The simmering triple digit heat has left Sacramento feeling edgy, jagged and hostile. It’s May and this is way too early for  July weather. It’s best to ease into summer, one digit at a time, instead it  feels like an intersection collision.
Triple digits have become a trigger. I [...]

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Do Not Fuck With My Dog!

I hate taking Zephyr to the mobile vet clinic. It’s way too hectic for my sensibilities. The yelping, chaos and anxious energy of the dogs–or maybe it was me. I’m not sure.
We finally got to the doc, a handsome guy. (I took in a ten second vision of marrying the doc and settling down with our trio [...]

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Ode To Dogs

Over the last few weeks I’ve been snapping shots of Zephyr in his natural habitat, all over my house–well, our house really.

When I was a kid we had an enormous golden retriever, Boomer. We lived in the mountains–wet, snow, dirt and more dirt. My mother had hard wood floors inlaid in our house which is [...]

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Cabin Fever

It finally, truly, feels like winter–as winter as winter gets here. But just 80 miles away, up in the mountains it’s dumping snow and I am so jealous not to be there. It’s the one time of year I get truly homesick. Christmas without snow is just wrong. And Christmas in a blinding, close-the-summit blizzard [...]

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Pomeranians Have Teeth

I was just walking home from the cafe with Zephyr on this hot afternoon when this Pomeranian popped out of nowhere and came at us. Now, Zephyr is around 70 lbs. and the little white fluff ball was no more than 25 tops, maybe less under that mass of fur, but the sucker had teeth and [...]

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The Zen of Foolishness

Have you ever done something you new was going to get you in trouble? Not law-abiding trouble or physical-harm trouble, but emotional trouble? (I’m sure the answer is yes; you’re human, it’s our nature–but if it’s no, call me, we’ll do lunch; I’ll take notes.) I’m not sure why, but it seems I’m going there again.)
I think, [...]

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My First Etsy Sale!

I’m very excited. I just made my first Etsy sale. The lemongrass wrist warmers pictured in yesterdays post. I promptly mailed them off and am very pleased.
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On our way home from coffee today, Zephyr and I ran into ANOTHER stray dog. That’s THREE in five days!

He’s a handsome guy, but he and Zephyr weren’t melding [...]

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