Utterly off-topic
Sunday, July 4th, 2010 Posted in off topic | 1 Comment »It's Independence Day! And hoorah and hooray for our country! I may get frustrated with her from time to time, but give me the Bill of Rights any day. My corn is far from knee-high (is it "my" corn if my ...
Search and rescue dogs…
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in off topic | 1 Comment »This interview was absolutely fascinating: Scent of the Missing.
Note to my neighbor:
Monday, April 12th, 2010 Posted in off topic | 1 Comment »If you don't want to clean up after your dog, what on earth makes you think I want to do it for you?
Completely off topic
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in off topic | Comments OffIt's 104 degrees (Fahrenheit) here today. The dogs are lazing around. We're not training, because I may be nuts about agility but I'm not nuts enough to spend half an hour in an extremely hot barn to train. I just ...
Talking to Strangers
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in off topic | Comments OffI talk to a lot of people who just like poodles. Today it was an elderly black man on a bicycle who stopped to admire the girls. He wanted to know if they needed a big place to run around. ...
Dog breeders, dog “rescue”, purebreds, and mutts
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in off topic | Comments OffOut here in the land of dogs, we have all been following the saga of the Obama family puppy with great interest. Our President, who has managed to pass several items on his agenda and reverse several Bush edicts, has ...
Going for a swim…
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in knee rehab, off topic | Comments OffI'm just back from ten days in the Big Island of Hawaii, a trip planned and paid for months ago... thankfully. We went diving and my knee did very well. Sometime in the next few days I'll post some of Jay's ...
We rock, as it turns out…
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in off topic | Comments OffIt is Thursday evening, and Velotech has a) not laid anyone off, b) continued to pay its employees, c) found new warehouse space, and d) expects to reopen in a few weeks. Pretty amazing.
Last weekend wasn’t so good…
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in off topic | 3 Comments »Last Sunday morning, Jay and I were woken up at 1:46 AM by a call from the company that handles our security alarm for our internet bicycle parts business in Portland Bike Tires Direct . Anytime the alarm company calls ...
Italian Dogs
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in off topic | Comments OffI just got back from two weeks in Italy, with five days in Verona and four days in a small town near Padova called Abano Terme. Verona has the second largest Roman-era coliseum and uses it every summer to have an ...