We’re pretty soft on our dog, Sparky. While a lot of neighborhood dogs are still outside (we can hear them barking) in cold weather, we tend to bring him inside when the temps get below 40 degrees. Sometimes when he’s outside, though, he’ll come sit right in front of the sliding glass door that...
Read more →The moral of the story is pretty simple: If you own a dog, make sure you license/register it with your local city/county. At about 1:00 pm today, I headed out back to give Sparky a little treat. He wasn’t in his doghouse and he wasn’t laying down in any normal spots. As I walked...
Read more →It’s snowing!!! Look at our front yard: Since I really can’t stand winter, this’ll be the only night that I’m excited to see snow. After this, spring and warm weather can’t come soon enough. But for one night, it’s cool to watch and see again. There’s actually one other fun thing about the first...
Read more →It didn’t work. Early this afternoon, we took Rocko back to the family that adopted him a week ago. (Coincidentally, they live about 500 yards from us right here in West Richland.) So we’re a one-dog family again. It wasn’t so much a problem with Rocko, or with the two dogs together. They were...
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