By The Dog's Early Light

This sweet girl is the primary offender in the secret war on sleep that my dogs are conducting. She is crated in my bedroom along with two other dogs. The rest of the dogs just freestyle sleep around the bedroom.

If not crated, she would pee and poo the night away, but at least maybe we could sleep a little longer…

She has a deep rich bark that can penetrate even the deepest Ambien induced coma. She also uses her powerful footsies to rattle her cage in a most disturbing manner.

She’s a cattle dog and unfortunately, we have no cattle. Still she heeds the call of her breeding around 5ish. Just as those first pink streaks appear in the sky she begins the assault on our senses. She has to get to work damn it. The cows are on the move or something.

Swiffer

This is my A team, easy, thorough, sanitary, scented, and holy. I love my Swiffer. When you have dozens of dogs and laminate floors, well, it gets dirty. Last night I went to Rite Aid. Apparently every one else was on some romantic Valentine's night date because the store was empty. My husband was working, all I really wanted was a Swiffer to love. My previous Swiffer was at least four years old. It was a good hard working soldier. It had a black scrubby thing instead of the new white one. I forgot that these things run on batteries, so I might put batteries in the old one and resurrect it. TWO Swiffers! Life would be sweet.

The little broom and dustpan set is from Chinatown. It's been used hard, and it never complains. I might pick up a new one the next time I am in Chinatown, because they are not only useful as hell, they are pretty!




This is my B team, old, dirty, stinky, obsolete, and back breaking. You can tell what a serious person I am by that big ass bucket. I would toss this B team out on the curb, but my husband would object. He loves the B team. (He thinks they do a good job)

Love

Love with out
fear
is the only journey
I required
believe me
I've listened
to all your dreams
In sunlight
in the dark
awake or dreaming
I breathed in
when your words
revealed
your heart
Never were you
alone
or
out of place
I always
held you
sincerely

Beautiful Day

It's all warm and spring like. I am in a great mood. Sipping peach tea with honey. Back door is open to let the fresh air in. I am cleaning out the pantry.

Something is beeping every few minutes in the basement and saying "so sorry". It was creeping me out, but now I am convinced it is some harmless electronic device that is programed to apologize for some reason. But I'm still not going down there to look.

I've been taking this stuff called 5HTP for a couple of days. I wonder if it is helping my mood?

For the last two days I've heard bird noises in the woods. Spring is coming and I for one, will damn happy to see her.

The bush/tree in the photo blooms every spring. We call it the tree that blooms for one day because it does. Truthfully you get about 3 days out of. If anyone knows the proper name of it please tell me.

The Thaw

When the temperatures rise, the snow melts. Since we already have the dirtiest snow in town (because of our dogs playing on it) we now have a dirty snow lake and lots of muddy dogs to bathe.

After they wake up of course...

January

January was a difficult month, although no one can deny it's high points, like the inspiring inauguration of our new president.

But still we were bored and cold, it just felt like it was one long snow day.

Yet, we tried to maintain a good attitude and look at the bright side.

We looked for things to do indoors...

Really, anything we could think of to occupy ourselves...

Still, the reality of it all was obvious. We were getting depressed!

It was taking it's toll on our looks! (they are just tear stains and they are hard to remove...jeez)

The great outdoors was a depressing sight. (You know those people that cover their seasonal stuff with special tarps and things, yeah, well, I guess we are not those people)

The only thing I still had left to enjoy was my fabulous perfume collection.

So the snow climbed higher on the rubber duck....

And the dogs just lost all sense of modesty....

And even the new girl didn't have any answers. So we are all just glad it's February now so we can move on.