Here’s a gift! Some late season Gardenia blooms brighten up my yard with their divine scent.
Category: Status Updates
Raven is a sweetie
My VW Cabrio gets a Makeover
Here’s some new car news for my friends who are interested….
I’ve been driving my 1996 VW Cabrio for 21 years. It turned over 200,000 miles on the speedometer about a month or so ago.
I looked around at new cars a few months ago and didn’t see anything that excited me. So I took my car to my mechanic and asked him to look it over carefully. He performed some routine maintenance on it, replaced some things, and told me the car’s engine and transmission were in great shape. So I decided to keep driving it!
I left it at a body shop for Part 1 of a two part makeover a few weeks ago and got it back this week. Part 2 of it’s makeover happens on August 1.




Milo crossed the Rainbow Bridge today
Best friends come in many shapes & sizes
This one in the shape of a scruffy little terrier
By all accounts a wanderer,
When I eyed him trotting down the road
On a cold Spring evening almost 10 years ago.
A loyal devoted buddy to anyone who needed a friend.
Following his nose in his paripatetic fashion to find some new interesting adventure
Happy New Year
Dinner is served!
My 9-1/2 foot tree….one of the prettiest trees I’ve had so far.
The sunset as I was taking my evening walk was quite beautiful tonight.
Out walking Gracie this evening, going the route we’ve walked hundreds of times, and Gracie got attacked by a boxer we’d never seen before.
I tried kicking the dog, yelling at the dog and then I picked up the biggest, heaviest stick I could find to bash him, but lucky for that dog (and for me) he decided to walk away. That dog could have killed Gracie & at one point he made eye contact with me as if to say “You’re next!”
I wasn’t particularly afraid of him, but I felt so helpless and I was afraid he’d hurt my Gracie! Thankfully, Gracie wasn’t hurt, at least I can’t find any wounds on her, but I’m still so upset by this. Next time I’ll be better prepared with pepper spray and a worthy stick and I won’t hesitate to use them if I see that dog again. I’m just glad I didn’t have Milo with me because I’m certain that dog would have killed Milo.