I remember birthday weeks of the past. They were always deeply entrenched in soccer season, and there were multiple grandparents and multiple venues and between Mate, myself, my biomom, Chicken, and my Auntie, there were five birthdays in a week. Things have calmed down since then. Everyone’s still alive, but Chicken is an adult and… Read More

 Don’t stress. Ginger the new dog is fine. I mean I think she’s fine.  She’s HERE. That should mean she’s fine. But, you may remember, not too long ago I blogged about how she disappeared and I did about sixty-thousand things to get her back and lo and behold! Somebody brought her back. YAY! So… Read More

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!  I admit it–between the new dog and the Fabulous Follow event last week, I did forget to send out the all-call for Kermit Flail last week–but that’s just fine, because I’ve got a couple of great guests anyway! The first is the ever quirky, always adorable E.J. Russell–and I’m super excited now because she’s… Read More

 So… Yesterday, ZoomBoy and I were on our way out of the house to go pick up Squish and we think that’s when it happened. Because when we got back to the house, New Dog–a.k.a. Ginger, was missing. ACK! I went into action. Posters, OUT. Canvassing the neighborhood, DONE! Posting on appropriate websites, CHECK!  Me… Read More

 So I know you’d think it would be the other way around, but I’m pretty sure the impetus for getting new pets in our house is 60% Mate and 40% me. I know it was Mate’s idea to get Chiquita, even if the dog came with another cat. (Ah, Emmett, I miss you too!) It… Read More

Yes, we went back to Monterey. It’s funny–fifteen years ago a trip to Monterey was one of the first things I’d posted. There was a picture of Squish, replete with hand knit pink baby hat, and ZoomBoy, then the Cave Troll, casting many a fit. Chicken and Big T were still in middle school, and… Read More

    YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I forgot to Flail in July… It’s funny how something you do consistently for so long can just slip your mind, right?  But the first Monday in July came and went, and it didn’t even hit me that I’d forgotten Kermit Flail until about two weeks in.  This month, Mr. Andrew Grey asked… Read More

  A true protector will guard your heart before his own.Hunter Rutledge saw one too many people die in his life as mercenary muscle to go back to the job, so he was conveniently at loose ends when Josh Salinger offered him a place in his altruistic den of thieves.Hunter is almost content having found… Read More

  I feel bad. The package arrived a week ago, right after we got back from the ocean, and I was SO excited, but there were other things to do. I don’t blog like I used to, and before I knew it, a week had gone by and I hadn’t yet celebrated what was an… Read More

 Okay– so it’s been a while since I blogged. I keep wondering, “Should I keep the blog?” and then, a thought hits me, or a week I want to talk about, and yes, I’m back on the blog again. Well, it IS a fifteen year old habit, and that’s hard to break. Anyway–I’ve been RIPPING… Read More