Breeze the Golden with her nose in a ground squirrel hole.

Let Me Reintroduce the Crew — the Animals That Keep Us Entertained

Since it’s been a while, I thought I might need to reintroduce you the crew….my crew, which consists of a goofy dog, 3 cats and chickens…. Breeze Here’s Breeze, she loves either staring down these little ground squirrel holes, or just completely terrorizing the poor little guys by poking her nose clear into the hole…

Breeze and Her Stuffed Animals!

Breeze is our silly, lovable 1/2 Golden Retriever, 1/2 Yellow Lab. She is a LOVER of stuffed animals, and a very real source of entertainment at our house. Here she is with her newest stuffed cat! Breeze is the greeter! Whenever someone drives into the driveway she will frantically run around looking for her latest…

Even Cats have bad hair days! Geronimo, looking like he's having one!

Geronimo’s Hair Care Routine

At the end of winter, around the middle of March, our fickle cat Geronimo’s long beautiful wig becomes a matty mess. It’s a horrible, miserable thing for him, and for anyone who pets him! All year long, until then, he has very nice, attractive feline fur, and then BOOM, it’s not! And let it be…

Title page, with Dough and her babies on the roost on the big chicken coop.

Update on Dough’s Adopted Chicks!

Dough has had her chicks for a little over 4 weeks, now! Go here for the beginning of the story! It’s been so fun to watch them grow! I said I’d give you updates on them, so here goes! We had them in our little brooder house for the first month, and Dough was getting…

Does Your Cat Do This?

We have a cat named Geronimo. And yes, he is a weird cat-in so many ways! He is also a HUGE, beautiful, spoiled brat….OOPS!–I mean cat. His ancestry must have some Siamese in it–either that, or he is too inbred, and it has affected his vision…not bad, but enough to notice it sometimes. Occasionally, he…

A hen sitting by her 4 brand new chicks.

It’s Chick Time!! Three Ways to Get Them.

A note from later: This little chicken story later became the inspiration for Under Her Wings. You can see it with my other books here. Every few years, come chick time, we need to replenish our flock–just because that’s how chicken’s work at our house. They either get old and don’t lay any more, or…

Meet The Crew

A note from later: Breeze and Cloud’s friendship eventually turned into the story in my book Breeze and Cloud: Friends Anyway. You can see it along with my other books here. Meet Breeze, our sweet, goofy, 1/2 Golden Retriever, 1/2 Golden Lab. She THINKS she is the equivalent of “Hank“–you know…. “Head of Ranch Security”,…