Letting Lyra Loose!

With my camera, that is! I let her take my little CoolPix down the hill (I was watching from the tent!) to see what she would come up with. (She also, I see, let 3YO Luna take a few!) Pretty darned amazing for an 8-year-old; I am impressed! (Note that these have been optimized to …
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Thursday “Throwback” Thoughts – May 25, 2023 Edition: Dogs Part 6

(Note that the dog pictured in the header is not Icy – but looks just like her!) This week I will be talking about IcyQ – aka Icy – aka Bing. And if you were sad about Casey losing Mick, you will LOVE this one! After Spanky died, Casey and I were dogless. We had …
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Thursday “Throwback” Thoughts – May 18, 2023 Edition: Dogs Part 5

This week I’m going to talk about Mick. His is a shorter story, and I hope that it had a happy ending for him…it didn’t for me, I will always feel guilt when I think about Mick… When Casey was still a baby, her dad wanted to get a young dog that she could grow …
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Monday Montages – May 15, 2023 Edition

These are really fun to do! I can use photos – or whatever – from the previous week, maybe make it a regular thing…hmmm…or do I really want to give up Monday flexibility… I guess we’ll find out together in the future! Meanwhile below are 5 montages from the last week! (PLEASE NOTE that I …
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Birthday Fun + Pig Roast! May 5-6, 2023

These are some video and photos from my birthday weekend; on the actual day I spent it with my Petey who indulged me and we did whatever I wanted to do! Then the next day we had a pig roast! Between the photos and the video I believe we have most people included; however there …
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Supernal Sunday – May 7, 2023 Edition: Observations

At yesterday’s pig roast that we hosted here at our home we had about 30 guests. As I looked around at them and at our surroundings I marveled at how we came to that moment. Every single person there had a part. Every relationship, whether familial or friendsome, had a place and a purpose; nobody …
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