Changing our meal times

Over the past year or so Hanno and I have been slowly changing our eating habits. We started by having smaller servings because our appetites have changed. This has worked well for us and we've been satisfied with the meals we're eating. Now we've moved on to a change in when the main meal is served. We're now eating it at lunchtime.



Hanno is quite used to this style of eating. In Germany

The Best Canine Magic Act Ever!

Clothes make the man, but sometimes it's the grooming that saves the dog.

This poor wretched thing was found abandoned in Leeds, UK, and was freed from misery with sheers and a bath. 

Decent grooming, good shelter photography, a softening bandanna used as a prop, and a little marketing are all that is needed to save countless canine lives. 

If you have photography and basic Internet skills and are looking for a way to make a world of difference for dogs, this is the way you do it!
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Coffee and Provocation

 

• Here's a little modern gypsy wagon porn suitable for your modern life.  The old-school gypsy wagon porn is here.



• In Mainland Europe, wild boar are the cause of 63 percent of animal-car accidents, and roe deer are the cause of 37 percent of animal-car accidents.



• Polo without horses.  It's about time!  Cheaper, safer, less cruelty, easier to keep, and I suspect more fun as a consequence. Now we can even have high school polo teams!



• Twenty pounds is not too shabby for an extinct species of trout just pulled alive from the water!



• The British love to engage in flights of fancy about panthers and cougars and the like because there is nothing the slightest bit dangerous in their countryside anymore, other than the occasional drunk driver and scurvy old child molester.  In Scotland, however, there is now talk of reintroducing wolves, bears and lynx to the Highlands.  That's a pretty big leap from the handful of beaver introduced a few years back!

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Gideon Surveys All

Gideon comes out of a den pipe in the side of a bank.
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Chicken Porn

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My Awesome Kids

Pride in Accomplishment

Fashion Dogs

Three on a Match

 

My two are workers with heads down, focused on holes, while Sweet Pea the young farm dog celebrates without a care in the world.  That's my digging bar in the middle of the picture.

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On being a grandma

Thank you for the love, thoughts and prayers sent to us yesterday.


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I never thought of myself as being a grandmother until it was almost upon me. I didn't think too far into my future, I just planned for the coming year and left it at that. I didn't think much about my sons' futures. I could see they were well adjusted, ambitious and sensible and I was content to stand back and wait

Iced Coffee and Hibernation

HOT

Damn 

Already?

Although the trumpet vine thrives,

I do not

It stretches and reaches toward the sun

I do not 

I hibernate

ponder the power bills

worry over the limping air conditioner

I hibernate

till fall

Think I'm kidding?

Ask around

I'm as difficult to spot as 

a dormouse

It's pretty out there

BUT

Too DAMN HOT

Iced Coffee

NOW!

Only 2 spots left in the class

Must register by May 2nd

Children Returned to the Lion House

This is an Old National Zoo sign from Washington, D.C.  I bet returning lost children to the Lion House really did save on food bills for the lions!
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Bushed

In retirement, George W. Bush, literally, paints his toes while soaking in the bathtub. Must be nice to have toes...
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First Groundhog of the Day

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Gideon Pushes On

Sweet Pea

Sweet Pea, the farmer's dog, accompanied us on part of our rounds. 

Sad and slow weekend

We had a sad and slow weekend. We received news that Hanno's sister, Angelica, died suddenly in Hamburg so there were long phone calls across oceans, talks about Angelica and lots of memories of her. She was Hanno's only sibling. Our family is always special but the importance of family is always magnified when we lose someone special. RIP Angelica.


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Over the weekend I did a bit of

New Houses in Neighborhood

For a country going broke and with crushing unemployment, there seems to be a lot of new construction going on in the neighbhorhood.  Do I believe what I read in the newspaper or do I believe what my eyes tell me?  That top house can be yours for $2.4 million.  No price tag on the other two yet.

And yet this place in Virginia can be had for one quarter of the price with a pretty house and an excellent stable for horses, 5 acres, and land to ride out on, and only 90 minutes away from the houses pictured at top.

Or how about this place in New Hampshire for half the price of the place in Virginia?

Or perhaps you would prefer this stone place in Pennsylvania, complete with trout stream to fish before breakdfast, eight acres, and a guesthouse?  You could buy four place like this, plus two land rovers and two Bentleys, for the price of that top house.   

And remember, houses are just boxes where you put your stuff.


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Gypsy Wagon Porn

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