animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

third time’s a charm

On Tuesday night, Ralphie was up all night pacing around the house. Occasionally, I’d hear his collar tags jingle as he scratched himself. Or, he’d let out a bark. I didn’t think too much of it at the time, because sometimes the dogs are just annoying. I fed him breakfast …

sandyvale

I had a couple vacation days left, so I took off today and am taking off next Friday. I hit it lucky with today’s weather, so I took the dogs to Sandyvale this afternoon for an extended walk. They seemed to enjoy it and have been sleeping ever since we …

germantown winery

My mom and dad have been wanting me to go to Germantown Winery with them for a while. We were supposed to go earlier this summer, but it was scheduled for the day that I ended up at MedWell for my neck, so that didn’t happen. We finally got there …

thanksgiving week

It’s been a busy week! Sylvia had a dental cleaning scheduled for Tuesday morning. She did well with it, but they had to extract a tooth (a pre-molar). That was an expensive trip! Wednesday morning, Jake went to his home office, which is in the former family room, and there …