I’m taking it harder than I thought I would–driving the family Sheltie to the vet and having her put to sleep is not an easy task. It was time: she was fifteen years old and beginning to suffer from a slew of ailments. Last autumn, her legs gave out and she fell [...]
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Lady Christine VII, Sensitive and Chaste, Moves to the Country to Fight for Your Honor
Posted in dogs, family on August 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Dog Days of May
Posted in dogs, library on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Any minute now, yet another thunderstorm is set to roll through the metro, so this post will be entirely composed using my Dell replacement battery. Let me know if you can tell the difference.
I made a new friend at the public library today. She was big, black, and hairy. I didn’t catch [...]
‘In Trouble with the Gas Man’ and ‘Why We Cry at McDonald’s’
Posted in dogs, gas, strangers on April 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tessa hadn’t paid her gas bill since November. I’m not quite sure what the bill was, exactly, but I know that it would have been a bare minimum of $500 to turn it back on (that $500 is on top of the $400 dollar deposit that is already being put toward the minimum balance).
So. [...]