My sweet little girls. 

Dad: there was a car called an Austin? Me: like an Austin-Healy? Dad: I don't know. I heard a funny thing when I was a little kid.  Me: ...

Indignant mode.  I was feeling hot with Chuy sweat-glued to my back, and I shifted in bed and he had the audacity to grump at me!!! He has a...

The pups are at their cutest when the house is dirtiest, so please excuse the dirty rug! Here, Praline looks very innocent while Chuy very i...

I know that I say it every year, but it's eternally true-- I am richly blessed for parents, and I'm so very proud of my Dad.  Everyt...

Last night there was an enormous crack of thunder about 3AM and Praline stood bolt upright and started barking her brains out as though an i...

I was so sad to hear yesterday of the death of Rik Mayall.  I loved him as the anarchist Rick in The Young Ones, the ubiquitous character in...

Mochi just loves her Tuff Gear toy. She's on her second one. It's so cute when she carries it around by the rope. She has endless fu...

In actuality, I continue extremely busy, though with relatively little of the stress of the school year. Last weekend, Old NFO came to tow...

I listen to soundtracks quite a bit, but I also have a Baroque music channel on Pandora (called "If It Ain't Baroque" - see if...

Mochi is killing stuff now. Woe betide the little furballs and birdies who wander into my back yard. Himself was able to get this bird away ...

I have loads of samples of perfume, and I tried one for the first time today that was primarily a musk. Now, most musk on the market is synt...

Two weeks ago school concluded and I miraculously passed everything, and I continue quite busy, though without the extraordinary stress of s...