Nose tracks. My front windows are covered with nose tracks – dog-height smudges and smears made up of dried slobber and snot. At this moment, two of our dogs are busy creating more. They’re seated in front of my office window, gazing out at the street. The dogs are waiting for something – anything – [...]

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See Scruff. Scruff and Steph are friends. Scruff loves Steph.   See Steph. Look, Scruff! There is Steph! See Scruff see Steph. See Scruff jump on Steph. See Steph kick Scruff (more like a foot shove, really).   Scruff is not happy. Scruff wants to sit on Steph’s lap. Scruff wants to sleep in bed [...]

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Do you play Words with Friends? It’s just like Scrabble, if you’re not familiar. You can play against friends from all over the world via Facebook and/or a smartphone app. Anyway, I’ve been playing for a few weeks, and frankly, I stink. I can come up with words pretty easily. But I don’t do well [...]

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Hullo. Miy name is Bobb. Do you remembber me? I am the Alfa dawg here. I sumtimes get on Momm’s computer and writ a blogg post. I havnt been herre in awile becuz Momm has been bizzy. But todayy I got Momm to leve her awffice by getting Scruf to barrk. (And lett me tell you [...]

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Greetings from the new house. We’ve been here just over a week, and we’re starting to feel settled. True, the movers managed to mix up all our basement stuff and cram it floor to ceiling in the storage room. (Christmas decorations buried under 20-year-old photos, anyone?) And true, we couldn’t find the silverware until Day [...]

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Umm, hi. Yeah, it’s me. I know, it’s been awhile. But I’ve been a little preoccupied lately. See, we’re in the process of buying a new house. And it’s hard to blog when all you can think about is where you’re going to get boxes, and will this couch fit on THAT wall, and what [...]

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Hello! My name is Tess, and I’m tha puppay! I use ta be little, but now I’ma BIG GIRL. Momma an’ Daddy say I’m still growin’ too! I live here with my brothers, Bob an’ Scruff. I’m almost as big as Bob now. Bob is nice ta me, mosta tha time. ‘Cept when I try [...]

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With Tess’s help, I think I’ve accidentally come up with a new title for a Christmas special: The Reluctant Reindeer Furry Christmas, Everyone! (You can’t tell from the picture, but her antlers light up.) (She LOVES them.)

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I have loads of pictures of our dogs. Especially Callie (pre-kids), who actually had her own “Baby Book”. Even Tess and Scruff and Bob are in a lot of pics, but there’s one pose that I have NEVER captured any of our dogs in. I must remedy this as soon as possible. But in the [...]

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We were at Target the other night, looking for Barbie storage units. And at our Target, the storage stuff is right by the pet stuff. So while I was pricing flimsy plastic drawers, the girls were examining the items on the end of the pet aisle: Dog Costumes. “Mom! I know what we can make Tess [...]

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