by Mir | Nov 7, 2009 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Everyone is healthy and hearty and life goes on. For a short and blissful while there, Chickadee was loving and cuddly and totally a Mama’s Girl. Of course, I didn’t know, in the beginning part of it, anyway, that it was largely due to the fact that she...
by Mir | Nov 5, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Oh look! Something furry!!
Yesterday dawned and brought with it a fever and listlessness for the girlchild, so I got her brother packed off to school and her set up on the couch and tried to salvage the day. I worked, she dozed. Somewhere towards lunch I stopped to stroke her hair and prepare...
by Mir | Nov 3, 2009 | Oh look! Something furry!!
Licorice is pretty much exactly what we imagined, when people told us about how great it would be to adopt a rescue dog. “They’re just so grateful,” people said. “They bond to you in a way other dogs don’t. They just love you SO...
by Mir | Nov 2, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Halloween dawned damp and full of expectation, here, and Chickadee was up and raring to go first thing in the morning. Monkey was still asleep at 9:30 when I went into his room to make sure he wasn’t dead, which meant, of course, that he was sick....
by Mir | Oct 31, 2009 | Ottomatic For the People
A few mornings ago, I let Licorice hop into bed with Otto after I let her out. She commenced furiously licking his neck, which—because we’d read some article that basically said, “You think your dog is kissing you when she licks your mouth, but...
