Because he's kinda cute

Today is our wedding anniversary. Together nine years, married for six. I think I'll keep him.






Can you believe he'd never owned a dog before he met me?

Reminder: I own a pair of good-lookin' dogs

Hey, remember when I took photos n' stuff?

Baby in da house

I had an almost-finished post ranting about the evolution of the human pelvis, but I'm now bored with it. It can be summed up as: human birth is very poorly designed. 

Happily, both me and my baby survived it  mostly intact. 

The dogs are doing very well with an infant do far: they're acting the exact way they do when I have a foster puppy or kitten in the house. Interested but not obsessed.

Double hind dew claws on a mixed breed dog

Her mama was a rotty, and her daddy was a great pyranean.

Plants are amazing

In 2004, while working for the Forest Service, I collected a handful of lupine seeds from the scrubland of Eastern Oregon. I intended to plant them, but what happened instead is that they sat in a plastic bag for nine years.

They survived through five moves. They never left the baggie, but they spent years sitting in hot garages and on porches exposed to the elements.

I rediscovered them last fall and thought, what the heck, and tossed them in a pot on the patio. Two actually sprouted, one survived the winter and is now flowering.

Way to go plant kingdom, you are resilient.