Sorry for the quiet this week. It’s been busy and I’m spending the day today driving down to Florida, so unless there’s some unexpected wireless, the radio silence may continue.
But in the meantime, don’t miss this week’s Ark and stay warm and safe during this winter arctic blast!!
(Oh, and by the way, the holidays can be exhausting when you’re a pooch!)
Here’s a puppy, enjoying an old toy on the eve of (probably) getting a new one…
I hope you’re having a wonderful day. Travel safe and stay warm and enjoy every last drop of this long holiday weekend (and check out the special Christmas Ark!)!
Brrrrr!!! It’s such a cold morning here in Chattanooga (we might even get a bit of snow tomorrow!) that I’m inspired to reach back to warmer days for this week’s creature. This photo of the dog (and her very hip water bottle) comes from a few months ago, over at her nearby special spot where she can run sprints. Happy Friday, everyone! Have a great weekend, and don’t forget the Friday Ark!
Brrr! A chilly wind doth blow this morning! This will be our first weekend with real fall weather — highs in the 50s! Yay!
To celebrate, here’s a random dog that we saw down near the lake in Chicago during our summer travels. Other creatures can be found on the Friday Ark! Have a great weekend, everyone!
This week I give you another creature from my summer travels, and this one is a hero. My cousin’s dog woke everyone up in the middle of the night last year with his barking. Turns out, an aquarium downstairs had shorted out and started a fire. It was still small and mostly just smoke and pungent odor when my cousin reached it, thanks to the dog, and no major damage was done!
Have a great weekend, everyone, and go say hi to the critters on the Ark!
Time for the big reveal! Remember the menacing presence in last week’s photo? Well, it’s time for her to come out of the shadows! I give you… Moxie the mauxie! She’s not nearly so frightening once you get a good look at her. She loves to follow the cats around, but doesn’t understand why they don’t return her enthusiasm for interaction! The pale/orange cat just runs off and the dark/gray cat will put up with just a bit of sniffing before she rears up and swats Moxie in the face. And then, in a few minutes it all starts anew.
Happy Friday, everyone! It’s been a good week here in Chattanooga — the temps are starting to cool down and Tropical Storm Claudette brought us some much-needed rain. And now we’re going to dry out for the weekend! Have a great one, with plenty of rest and relaxation (you might even head over to the ark and set a spell!)!
Here are the two cats I’ve featured recently, only now they’re together and facing a mysterious other. There’s so much intrigue there, I had to add a little soundtrack (which do you like better?). Stay tuned, as next week, the shadowy figure will be revealed! Can you handle the drama?
Have a great weekend, everyone! We’ll be in transition here, as Emmie moves back to campus and we brace ourselves for the first day of classes on Monday (how this could be allowed to happen before Labor Day is a completely mystery to me!). Summer, we hardly knew ye! Of course, the creatures of the ark are steady as always…
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This week, Nonnie turned ten years old. We had a party on Wednesday, with presents to unwrap and yummy food. She’s pretty indispensable around here. One of her very important jobs is to monitor the activity in the neighborhood and she takes it very seriously. If a person comes along — especially someone wearing a uniform and/or in a loud truck (like a mail carrier or UPS/Fed Ex delivery driver), she will alert you to the intrusion until your ears bleed. Our doorbell is pretty much extraneous.
Sorry about the late post today! My Friday ended up being more like a Monday — thank goodness it’s over. And there are always the arkettes to distract a person from the day’s headaches! Have a wonderful weekend!
We recently had dinner at the home of some wonderful neighbors — good food, wine, and music, great friends, and as a special bonus, we got to hang out with Buford, one of the coolest dogs in the world.
In other news, the summer heat has arrived. We’ll be staying inside this weekend, as the temps reach for 100°F. Blah. But maybe this means I’ll get to do some cooking… And on a more positive note, there are always new creatures on the ark! Have a wonderful weekend!
I’m plum out of creatures that don’t live with me, so this week you get to take another peak at my dog. Here she is looking just about as comfortable as a body can possibly be — which, of course, is her special talent in this life. That and sleeping. She’s really good at sleeping.
If that didn’t quite scratch your creature itch, there are plenty of others over on the modulator’s ark! Have a fantastic weekend!
Hello! I'm Alice, which is my real name (most of the other names here have been changed, though, to protect the innocent). I live in an almost-100-year-old house in downtown Chattanooga, TN with my first husband, G-Dog (who is from New Canaan, CT), and a cockapoo named Nonnie (the moniker comes from a Laurens van der Post book). We have one kid (that we know of) -- a daughter, Emmie, who plays a supporting role on the blog. She's off being a student, but she pops in often enough to keep things interesting.
I originally hale from Batavia, NY, a quiet little town in rural western New York. G-Dog and I met while attending college in Carlisle, PA, and then moved on to Chapel Hill, NC together before finally settling in Tennessee. Other places we've lived in long enough to have a mailing address include London and San Francisco.
This blog is about a lot of things -- the places I visit, things I cook, people I meet, photos I take, things I read, and -- of course, politics. I'm an unrepentant, arugula-eating, progressive, liberal, lefty, euro-loving, educated elitist and I'm looking forward to an administration that doesn't raise my blood pressure quite as often as the outgoing one did...
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