We went to the farm/house-site this afternoon, taking two vehicles so that I could come home early if I got too hot. Which I did. Cassie came home with me, but the boys and the dogs came home with my...

NOT kidding, the puppies ate my house. Its a real house, with vintage cedar-siding. They ate two holes in it. Big holes. Animals could get in my walls. In my whole life, I've NEVER heard of dogs chewing siding before....

We've been dog shopping. With no limiting considerations, my husband would want a mastiff. Actually, with SEVERAL limiting considerations, he still wants a mastiff. Its his turn to pick the breed (with me having veto power). But I doubt I'll...

Our parents got Sam because my mother worried about the children loose in the yard and around the farm. Dad worked in town in one of the labs, but we lived out in the county on my grandparent's farm. Their...

Some decisions are made in a blaze of resoluteness, after careful consideration and much discussion. Others are made merely by yielding to the inevitable. We used to not have a cat, now we do. I was not won over by...