“Macky,” our general contractor, arrived at 8 am this morning with 2 other crew members so they could begin working on the bathroom. Hubby was already at the home improvement store to pick up our new toilette and a few other things we realized we needed along the way. Since our paint stripping project on […]

There are many, many wonderful people in this world who dedicate their hearts, souls, time and lives to helping animals in need. These are not just the workers at local animal shelters but rather those who take in pets who have become “problem” animals or simply could no longer be housed by their current families. […]

We spent a majority of the weekend working at the new farmhouse, cleaning out all the trash we made when we more or less destroyed our bathroom last weekend and starting to throw away some of the scrap wood which was piled up in the barn. Ayla always seems to sleep for hours straight when […]

This was posted on the Newf-L list by someone who saw it on a Golden Retriever list. It touched me so I had to share… Some of you may know that our 14 year old dog, Abbey,died last month (8/23). The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking […]

This special post came from Newf-L list this morning and I just wanted to pass it along. Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife, Lisa, and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker and they were hoping […]