The Magnificent Magnolias

Purty, aren’t they? We’ve somehow never discovered this until now.  I think it’s because all of the magnolias are blooming, rather than just bare branches like everything has been for so long. Must investigate.  Magnolia Tribute Garden – lovely. Lovelier.  Just needed a little Airedale-ing up. Apparently George Washington was an aficionado of the magnolia. …

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Greeting My Fans

I love to meet my fans – there are so many really lovely people out there who just need to get in a little Bogart worship when they’re in my town – and I UNDERSTAND. This is Susan – we tried to meet up at the Just Dogs Gourmet today but they were closed!  While…

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New Times in Old City

Ice, Ice, Baby… (dum dum dum dum da da dum dum) I was first attracted to the leaking bags because, well, anything leaking on the street gets my attention.  But.. just bags of ice.  A bunch of humans seemed to be planning some sort of party to which I apparently wasn’t invited.  Silly fools, don’t…

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Spring’s First Hairecut

I’m feelin’ spry, far less wild and wooly than only a day ago.  Had my first haire-pulling of the year.  We do it in bits, to maintain my rugged individualist look as well as not piss me off too much by doing too much pulling for too long.  Today we got two heads worth!  (Mama…

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Feeling Power-less

This does not compute.  I come to my very favorite store, Just Dogs Gourmet, and the lights are out and the door is closed to my nose-pushing.  What does it mean? Store Closed due to power outage.  Still doesn’t compute for me.  Who needs power – I WANT COOKIES They do, of course, have another…

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Love, Denmark Style

Today a package arrived at my door.  It smelled good.  Mama said that it came from Denmark, and I didn’t know much about Denmark.  So we sat down to open it, and lookie what was inside: Mama started to look at the book but damnit I smelled something delicious – put down the book mama,…

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Helping Japan’s Animals

We have been so moved watching all of the devastation that has happened to the people of Japan during the recent earthquake, tsunami, and reactor breakdowns… and have been looking for ways to help.  Being very focused on animals and animal issues, we were searching for how to donate to help Japan’s animals and the…

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