It’s Official
Penny is legally part of the family – I signed her adoption papers last weekend. The papers were only a formality, Penny and I knew she belonged with me the moment our eyes met. As with all the dogs of my life ours was a case of love at first sight. I’ve learned over the years to […]
3’s A Breeze – True Confessions
Downstairs I generally fess up when I make a mistake – not that I’ve had to do it often but if one is willing to take credit when credit is due they should be equally willing to face the music when things go south. So I did. I took responsibility and the knocks and cleaned up after […]
3’s A Breeze – The Wrong Side of the Door
Downstairs Penny has decided Fergus’ life upstairs is far superior to hers below decks. It was bound to happen I guess, within moments of arriving at her new house Penny discovered she’d pulled the short straw – she sniffed around her new backyard and followed her nose right up the back stairs, through an open […]
Find a Penny
I lasted sixteen days without a dog… sixteen whole days. I didn’t do those days well according to a friend of mine – I can vouch for that, they were long lonely days. Turns out I don’t do ‘alone’ very well at all. I’ve pretty much always had a dog – sometimes more than one – they […]
3s A Breeze – Palms Away!
Downstairs My son-in-law made an unusual call for help the other day which I answered posthaste (it’s usually me calling for assistance – it felt good to have the shoe on the other foot for a change). He texted he was in the front yard and wondered if I had five minutes to spare (I […]
The hole
Today feels like a Monday on a Tuesday – long weekends mess me up, I have a hard enough time remembering the day of the week as a rule – throw in a stat and I’m hooped. Nothing distinguishes Wednesday from Saturday when you’re living the life of a retired…whatever I am. Even my mornings […]
3’s a Breeze – Crossing the Line
Downstairs There is an invisible line a child must cross on their road to adulthood, it runs through a no man’s land for a few years and is often blurred by perception. It can be confusing. For instance – when I look at my adult/children I invariably see the child they used to be, when […]
3’s a Breeze – The Dark Lord
Upstairs “Welcome Home Vader” Every evening at precisely 11:00pm a sleek, black disc-shaped robot emerges from beneath our living room couch, whirring and clicking. About the size of a large dinner plate, but thick like a phonebook, it methodically bumps it’s way through our living room, kitchen, and family room on a mission to discover […]