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Everyone has moments in their life they are not exactly proud of, and I am about to share one with you.  Sometimes doing what needs to be done in life is not pretty, fun, or politically correct.

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Summer calls for salad and “getting healthy”. After all, it’s not pretty after you chow down on pasta and pass out from a carb coma…

Just sayin’.

The only negative to salad and a new health kick is that apparently our neighborhood flies are on the band wagon too. Every time I open the back door to fire up our Weber, one of them takes it as an open invitation to come in and fondle our leaf lettuce. Last week I even saw one land on the remote. I think he was trying to press “rewind” for the P90X toll-free number. Don’t feel sorry for him. He wouldn’t have made it past week 3. Yup, my “Mr. Miyagi” karate chop, not only ended any chance of him bulking up, but pretty much did him in.

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“Too bad guinea pig is not alive to enjoy this.”

Yes, our family pet of one week, the guinea pig named, “Guine” or “Duncan” or “Bevo”–depending on the hour or day you may have talked to my daughters–peacefully passed away long before his time on Saturday night. He was a youngster, who witnessed the darkest days of clutter and chaos in my house before the dawn hit Sunday night with a house you could walk through without tripping on something that belonged anywhere but on the floor.

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Category: Pets & Animals  Tags: Lessons Learned  

Collin, is a four-year-old male version of Baby Rose and his Nana finds him well.. perfect, of course.  Yesterday, while we were having dinner, he looked through the glass top of the table at his feet and declared, “When I was a baby my toes were pink.  Now I’m a grown-up because my feet are orange!”

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Unless you’re a new mom or grandmom (“Nana” in my case) you’ve experienced seemingly everything piling in at once.  Example, the baby gets a stomach virus just when your washer or drier conks out.  Right?

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