Divided Attention

Had an okay walk. Moss still hates his halti and Katherine still travels at the speed of a two-almost-three-year-old, so we must have looked a fair sight. One woman walking a normal border collie on one leash and a whirling, leaping, psycho-collie on the other with a child in tow who insisted on jumping everywhere,…

Rainy Days and Mondays

You know you’re in a dismal mood when you start quoting that Carpenters song. I have no really good reason to feel rotten, other than just simple overwhelmation. If it’s not a word, it should be. Also, the weather sucks and that always seems to play havock with my moods. Not to mention that I’m…

Thank you Alan, Sean and Bob….

…. for teaching my two-year old to say that she’s “getting tail”. Even in the context of a mermaid song, it’s a bit odd to hear her say it. She likes the rest of the album too, by the way.

Backgrounds

Layers Photos by VickyTH. No matter what the focus of the foreground of life, the background continues to patter away. In fact, the background is often more interesting in a subtle way. Lately I’ve been going out of my tree getting ready for the fabric painting and landscape quilting workshops this weekend. Not to mention…

Greyhounds are like people….

They really and truly are. Not their personalities, which are more cat-like at times than dog-like, but their physiology. What, you may ask, of a dog could possibly be humanoid? It’s simple. Greyhound bladders are human-sized. I would swear it. An incontinent geriatric female greyhound can leave a puddle that would put most women to…