Rita the Pitiful Puppy has not had a good week. First, she ate holes into her back. Then I insisted on clipping the fur over those holes ...

A. announced yesterday morning, after softening me up with home-made blueberry sour cream blintzes, that he was going to take me on a date. ...

Yesterday didn't start out well: A.'s printer self-destructed, the sheep escaped from their pasture by breaking fence, and A. got s...

Is there anything more pathetic than a puppy wearing one of those Elizabethan collars? Pobrecita Yes, there is: A puppy wearing one of thos...

And I could use some laughter this morning. Couldn't we all. P.S. The actual post about this photo is here , if you care.

We had some serious thunderstorms last night. All night long, I was waking up to flashes of lightning and cracks of thunder. Then that sto...

I have never met Susan, the matriarch of Trout Towers , but I know that she's a woman of exceptional intelligence. And I know this beca...