Archive for 'Pets'
Bend it Like… Oliver?
26 September 2006Most cats like to bat things around. To say that ours do too would be less then newsworthy. Oliver, however, has taken it to the next level. It all started back in the condo when we first had a refrigerator with an ice dispenser in the door. Every time an ice cube accidentally hit the [...]
Poor Pretty Things
25 August 2006My husband surprised me with a bouquet of flowers tonight. The arrangement was gorgeous and they smelled wonderful. It was all the more special because he rarely brings me flowers…at my request. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking them or the state of our relationship. I’m not allergic to them. I don’t [...]
Dillon Beach
4 July 2006Now that we’re left with only one dog we often find ourselves wondering how to keep him busy. Unlike many other breeds Border Collies are working dogs through and through. They need some form of stimulation or they get bored and when they’re bored they “find” things to do. This was most evident during Alex’s [...]
Morning Menagerie
9 June 2006We have 3 pets - a dog and two cats. All of them require a certain amount of attention. Some more then others, and usually at different times of the day.
Alex, our Border Collie, likes a lot of interaction for the first few hours of the morning and then again in the late [...]
Le parc de chien
18 May 2006I don’t speak French, but I thought the translation for Dog Park had a nice ring to it. Much nicer then the German translation (Der Hundepark). I deal with a half dozen different languages in my job, and German always sounds so guttural. Since I probably have some German in my background and have a [...]
Dirt and the dingle berries
4 October 2004That was my morning… simply put. I found myself barely able to crawl out of bed at 7:45, having contemplated staying home since 6:45. I was feeling very under the weather this morning. Sore back, sore neck, lack of any real motivation to do more then lay in bed all day – not too far [...]
Noah’s Ark
16 September 2004Threw my back somehow, and this week has been a bit hellish. Hobbling around at work, etc. like a big gimp. Drew has been a good sport (helping out and all). Then again, he always is - very sweet like that.
Alex ate one of his toys last night and started throwing it up around 4am. [...]