This is my fifth blog post of 2018. There was a time when I wrote a post every day or two. Have I run out of things to say, or is my threshold for sharing higher? Maybe it’s both. Yet here we are. For me, 2018 was the year of the dog. (It was alsoContinue reading “the year of the dog”
Category Archives: dogs
rest in love Stella the Rat Dog (7.25.2004 – 10.14.2018)
Once upon a time, James quite unexpectedly brought home a stray dog. We named her Dali in honor of her different-colored eyes (and, we later found out, craziness). For balance, I told James I’d bring home a dog of my choosing someday, and we’d all live together in a dog-centric version of the nuclear family.Continue reading “rest in love Stella the Rat Dog (7.25.2004 – 10.14.2018)”
DOGS! DOGS! DOGS!
This is Ripley. She’s four and a half months old, a new occupant in our house as of a week ago, and, as our vet put it, “a terrier through and through.” She has beautiful amber eyes, a scruffy coat and the sunniest disposition of any dog I’ve ever lived with. And true to herContinue reading “DOGS! DOGS! DOGS!”
quality of life
We had to take our 13.5-year-old dog Stella to the vet yesterday. A white spot appeared in her left eye a couple of weeks ago. We assumed it was related to her encroaching blindness, which we learned about at her last vet visit a few months ago. Or maybe she’d scratched her cornea on aContinue reading “quality of life”
going home again
Links Hotel El Capitan Lei Low Pinkerton’s Barbecue Morningstar
I think Safeway’s going to call CPS on me
“But you don’t have children, Crystal. Why would they do that?” Two reasons: copious amounts of alcohol and ham and ham gravy baby food. Let me back up. Did you know small dogs (like Chihuahuas) often have major issues with their teeth? And that I share my house with Stella, a Chihuahua-Rat Terrier mix? And thatContinue reading “I think Safeway’s going to call CPS on me”
the grass IS greener
We’ve lived in California almost two years now, but we haven’t been here long enough to separate legit weather concerns from TV weatherman hype. In Houston, every storm system in the Gulf presented the opportunity for SEVERE WEATHER graphics and ominous music, even if said storm posed no threat to the area. So I wasn’tContinue reading “the grass IS greener”
Treffen #17
Treffen is an annual caravan of vintage VWs that journeys down Highway 1 from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. This is their 17th trip, but it was the first time they had a “Show & Shine” in Pacific Grove. There were dozens of beautiful Buses, Bugs and (my beloved) Karmann Ghias. They’re continuing southward today,Continue reading “Treffen #17”
they once were wolves
Does an animal that finds its asshole, an ice cube and its owner’s face equally delightful to lick care about seeing the Hollywood sign? Does an animal that chases its own tail, surprises itself by farting and is scared of the vacuum want to go to the Grand Canyon and marvel at the enormity of it all? Does an animal that, atContinue reading “they once were wolves”
