Gordon and I have about 2 acres, so there is a decent back yard, with trees and rocks, and most of it is fenced. The backyard is country dark, meaning without a moon, it’s pitch black. Last 5 nights: Sookie: I need to pee. One of us: Here you go, open door. Sookie, three seconds
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Life with Bulldog: Despair Edition
Someone didn’t get to go on a walk. Turn the sound up. Gordon took her around the block after we came home.
Cold War, Feline Style
We will have an announcement for you later today, hopefully. Meanwhile, after almost a week of rain and cold, sun came out a little bit and all of our cats promptly took off. All of them are rescue cats, so keeping them from going outside is a losing proposition. Behold, the kitty standoff, narrated by
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Adventures of the animal kingdom
Convincing Amazon to push an update to an ebook is a bit of an involved process. Amazon hates pushing mandatory updates because they wipe out people’s highlights. We are hoping they will fix it, because the Māori typo is very unfortunate. It makes us look like stupid hacks who couldn’t be bothered to spell the
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Brotherly Love
Leon peeled out onto the street. In the rearview mirror, Cornelius’ BMW glided out of the parking lot. We’d likely lose him before long. Cornelius’ top driving speed usually stayed four miles over the posted limit. The MII was roughly thirty minutes away but knowing Leon we would get there much faster if the traffic
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My Patronus
12:46 AM. Kid 2, text: I am on a mission. Kid 2: I am going to catch a ton of eeves and have one of each evolution. Kid 2: I already have two. Me: What time is it? Kid 2: Pokemon time. Me: How old are your parents? More importantly, how old are you that
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Artha, Artha, Artha
By popular demand, we did put Artha into a Christmas sweater for you. Also our email is full of “More Artha” requests, so clearly the love of German Shepherds is all consuming. We gave her her own category.
The Tree
The fake artificial tree is up. No decorations yet. This is the tree that ate up the entire Christmas tree budget. First, last year’s live tree. This year’s tree. It came in three boxes. It’s prelit and it took me an hour and a half to fluff. Here it is with Artha for scale. The
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Christmas Trees and Failing Brains
I opened my Christmas present from Kelly early, because she was very sly and sent me my favorite tea. But please don’t send us things. We love you, but you go overboard. One year I said I liked certain socks and then there were 7 packages of socks in the PO Box. That’s why we
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My Life is a Soap Opera
Some people lead boring mundane lives. I live by stumbling from one minor emergency to another. Don’t get me wrong, not complaining. A never ending string of small emergencies is better than one huge one. But it does wear me down. Last week was a long sequence of weird stuff happening, and I was at
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A Quiet Saturday
Woke up today without power. So here is the first fire of the season. The power came back on and we put 2,300 words on Hidden Legacy. It’s an emotionally violent novel, because everyone gets ripped open: Alessandro has to give up his secrets, Catalina and Nevada have a really heart breaking scene, Alessandro and
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Drugs: A Mother’s Crisis
Kid 1 is taking a cyber security course at UT. It’s an evening course, she has to drive about an hour to get there, and on top of that, the parking garage assigned to them is quite far from the building. The parking permit has been an point of extreme anxiety, because every single time
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