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• Watch Holly Grow: Fourteen Months

  By Donna Black-Sword on May 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  There’s a whole lot of good stuff about the Favorite Kid getting married off, the first being that now I have two Favorites. And grand dogs. Two of those in the family now, too. An embarrassment of riches, y’all. So… Read More ›

• Watch Holly Grow: Thirteen Months

  By Donna Black-Sword on Apr 22, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Volunteer puppy raisers for Canine Companions for Independence expect to have their young four-legged charges in their care for fourteen to sixteen months. For those of us who find it easier to toss out rough estimates, we have been heard… Read More ›

• Blossoming beauty

  By Donna Black-Sword on Apr 15, 2015 • ( 16 )

  

  The windows are open, allowing entry of the lavender’s perfume from the south garden bed. If you can get past the shoe-sucking mud season, it’s actually possible to enjoy the change of wind that brings Ohio springtime. And as our… Read More ›

• Wordless Wednesday: Stunt Double

  By Donna Black-Sword on Apr 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Take a pop over to our companion dog blog at Go. Do. Be Dog. for a product review of Lindy and Company dog treats. Micron is asking me to update his resume. He wants to snag a job at this… Read More ›

• Hero Bunnies

  By Donna Black-Sword on Apr 1, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  Harvest and Holly pause in their play session to get into the bunny spirit of the season. A closer inspection of the image above will confirm that, yes indeed, that is mud on Holly’s legs. But it’s springtime mud, of… Read More ›

• Watch Holly Grow – the first year

  By Donna Black-Sword on Mar 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Click here to download a PDF of this photo collage from Google Drive