While no one was watching….

Katherine and I spent some time out in the yard today, tidying things and spraying sand in about eight different directions. She had a blast. Moss discerned that hoses are really related to snakes and need pouncing upon, vigourous shaking and the deft application of very sharp teeth. At least, that’s his story. Mine varies…

November dwindles

We’ve almost reached the end of November, but already it rather feels like December. Strange how that works. I must be simply rolling from Craft Fair and production time right into Christmas without the usual panic to meet additional deadlines that falls temporally between the two. So Katherine and I went Christmas shopping today. We…

One definition of “high”:

A two year-old in a toy store a month before Christmas. Mom and I took Katherine to Toys R Us today, so that I could gawk at toys and we could both watch the munchkin spin from one display to another, pushing random buttons and eliciting bizarre noises from large, expensive pieces of brightly-coloured plastic….

Idiocy

John told me to post this one. I’ll grant that it’s funny, but it’s no better than most of our conversations….. Last night, while we were lying in bed reading, a border collie launched herself onto us and licked me in passing. This is a normal occurrance. What made it funny was that I yelped….

Melba

   On Friday, a sunny, crisp day, our greyhound Melba made her trip to the Rainbow Bridge. It’s taken me a few days to pull myself together enough to write this and, truth to tell, I’m not doing much better now than I was then. While I have no regrets about our part in Melba’s…