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Oh, I missed the perfect photograph yesterday evening. I’ve mentioned that lately I’m up to my armpits in bull snakes, which is not so unusual in spring/early summer. Unlike rattlesnakes, bull snakes are entirely harmless and beneficial and I do … Continue reading →

…and I feel kind of cheated. Because the Finns actually have a word for this. If I were a Finn I’d know how to pronounce it. Then I could exercise the hell out of my white privilege. ETA: Okay, turns … Continue reading →

I just stumbled on this: May have read it a long time ago, it seems vaguely familiar, don’t know who wrote it but he/she wasn’t wrong… I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? … Continue reading →

Sorry about the no-posting thing: I’m dealing with an unusually protracted early-summer allergy situation here and the antihistamines have me doing nothing with my days but regular chores and wanting to nap. But I do want to take this opportunity … Continue reading →

…and Tobie wasn’t on the floor, or in his bed. I turned on the overhead light, and… …he had quietly climbed onto my reading chair, just wanting to hang out next to Uncle Joel. We’re still working on the Jeep … Continue reading →

So last week I spent a couple of days editing a galley proof of Ian’s new book, colloquially Chinese Mystery Pistols but officially… And last week I was distracted by a new puppy with digestive issues and one of the … Continue reading →

…I can do this now. Low on gasoline and (after a rather expensive trip to a dog shelter and a Petco a week ago) utterly out of money, it was nice to still have the means to ride to town … Continue reading →

Tobie and I have been taking a lot of short utilitarian walkies lately, while he worked out his digestion problems. That’s getting better at last, by the way. Anyway, he has recently developed a very annoying trait in which he … Continue reading →

I was going to make a comment about Early Me, but even at my goofiest I never pretended I could dance.

Get a load of this… Tobie decided right away that he absolutely hated the Jeep. He didn’t even want to walk past the right side when we went out for a pee, for fear that at any moment I might … Continue reading →

Puppies make messes. Big puppies make big messes. I’ve mentioned that Tobie seems to have come pre-housebroken, a happy surprise. Unfortunately when certain digestive upsets occur, training doesn’t always help. And especially in the middle of the night, if you … Continue reading →

So Monday mornings I always go with D&L to refill the drinking water bottles. This would be the first time I left Tobie alone, and I was very interested to see the result of that. I keep mentally turning his … Continue reading →

On Friday morning, anticipating my hoped-for new arrival, among other things I brought Laddie’s old bed out of storage. When the bundle of joy actually arrived he was clearly a few sizes too big for it, so I set it … Continue reading →

Sitting on the sidewalk… Eyeing foodie droids with bad intent…

What a sweet little guy. I have a hard time believing he’s as old as a year – I’m no expert but I’d guess no more than 9 months. He has no real vices other than a tendency to go … Continue reading →

Introducing Tobie. Tobie is – well, they say 1 year old but I think much younger, 30ish pounds, the result of a shepherd mating with something rather smaller than a shepherd. I got tired of waiting for my next dog … Continue reading →

Here’s something I wrote 19 years ago, when I was still in California and basically living in the depths of despair. I just came upon and re-read it, and find nothing in it of which I should repent. The thesis … Continue reading →

The local feed store finally got their annual garden plants in. I like to grow rosemary for baking into bread. Rosemary is the only garden plant I’ve seen that does well in this environment*, and for a wonder the rodents … Continue reading →

…over and over, in my case. I don’t know where all the game has gone. Sometimes things just dry up: I’m quite sure there are still animals somewhere in the desert but they haven’t been in my part of the … Continue reading →

On a road to nowhere this morning, just for fun… We crossed 500 miles on the odo! I put 24 miles on it today, mostly off pavement, and ow my ass. Also, first sunburn of the season. You might recall … Continue reading →