When I'm not busy enough, I notice things that I'm otherwise oblivious to. Today I noticed that we have carpenter ants in the hous...

Today was so much different than yesterday. Days like this serve to remind me that everything does get sorted out eventually. Despite ye...

Nothing was in sync today. The landscapers were supposed to come out early this morning to fix up the back yard. They didn't arrive un...

You can certainly get a lot more done when the weather is nice, the dogs are behaving, and you've had a good night's sleep. I had ...

I woke up early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. So much for sleeping in on Saturday. There was little point in sleeping i...

I was a model of efficiency today. I got up at 6 AM and walked Dash in the dark. Less than an hour later, I was eating breakfast at my fav...

Dot did great at her first physical therapy session. She was able to walk for almost nine minutes in the underwater treadmill before she g...

I hope the vet has some suggestions for me when we go to our physical therapy session tomorrow. Dot can stand up on her own now. She can e...

I love my new Keurig coffee maker. I don't know why I didn't get one of these things earlier. It's quick. It's easy. The c...

I got quite a bit done today. My taxes are finally ready to go to the accountant. I finished writing two more articles and sent them off t...

None of my roof patches worked. They dried completely and looked like they should have worked, but for some unknown reason the patch didn...

Weekends were always busy. Now, they're becoming impossible. When you try to add a week's worth of postponed activities to your no...

I got up early and was able to walk Dash and go out for my Friday breakfast before Janet had to leave for work. I considered this a succes...

Things are looking up. Dot seems a little stronger today. Her energy level and ability to walk varies from day-to-day, but today was one o...

This experiment isn't getting any easier. Dot is strong enough now to get up on her own, but isn't strong enough to walk without s...

I had to turn the air conditioner on today. It's hard to believe that we were dealing with sleet and ice when Dot had her operation an...

We've got a new schedule now. We get up several hours earlier than we did yesterday. The dogs get fed. Dot's nighttime bedding get...