My cousin and his family have a great, old (~13 years) dog Enzo (who was great friends with Willow), and I have been lucky enough to be his caretaker when they go out of town. I can safely say that I am in Enzo’s top 5 favorite humans and he is in my top 3 …
Category: The Dog
Nigerian Dwarf Goats. 1 year old Mongo and 3 month old Bongo. Both males. Much like the process of meeting and getting used to the cats Gia has befriended, it took a couple of days for her to fulfill her need to get up close and personal and heartily sniff the goats and get that …
Honestly, we do not go out of our way to find rattlesnakes. It just seems to happen several times a year. Luckily, except for that one time Willow got badly bitten in the San Bernardino National Forest, all the other interactions have been relaxed, non-confrontational and only rarely in need of my Snake Stick skills. …
Not including this post, 300,290 words to be exact posted here within 214 posts. I’m sure many of the words adding up to that total include lots of “filler words” such as; “of”, “the”, as well as “and” and more than a few usages of “douche” (and rightfully so) so I am not getting too …
In my extensive travels throughout the breadth of the American West I have seen numerous rattlesnakes up close and personal. Some sadly dead in the middle of a road but many alive and going about their normal, daily snake lives and business. Most are simply moving from one spot to the next and I appreciate …
In early Spring 2017, over the course of several weeks, Willow and I did some extensive exploring around Green Peter Reservoir outside of Sweet Home, Oregon. This happens to be all of 30 minutes from my home so it is quick, easy and cheap (with gas prices as they are and a Tacoma that would …
Relatively soon after accepting Gia into my life and once she was healed from her spay surgery I wanted to get her jumping into the Adventure Life with all four paws. When up in my old Humboldt County stomping grounds we spent close to a week alongside Horse Linto Creek waiting to find out if …
As I press the “Publish” button to make this post live it is April 9th, 2024 and the 1 year anniversary of the day I decided to accept Gia into my life. A lot has happened with us in that first year and she has improved dramatically. In that time frame she and I have …
When we find ourselves in the Santa Cruz, CA area we inevitably end up at Lighthouse Field State Beach. The official “State Beach” encompasses a 38-acre (15 ha) area including parking areas, grasslands and hiking trails on the East side of West Cliff Drive as well as the beach itself to the west. We are …
After 5+ years of service and while still working perfectly I decided that our ARB Refrigerator was not completely meeting our needs. Not because of anything it was doing wrong but mostly because I wanted to carry more food with us and have a separate freezer section for longer-term storage…especially after stocking up at a …