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kym | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
i’m happy to announce there is a new member of the earthdog pack. he hails from georgia where he was pulled from a kill shelter and brought to nashville by a wonderful rescue group. i became aware of him and fell in love with him at first sight. when i found out he was deaf it was clear to me he belonged here. without further ado i present benny… holy crap, people, believe me when i say this is the most fantastic puppy. we’ve raised many, many...
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kym | Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
my parents came over for dinner the other night (for a delicious vegan meal) and flanagan really enjoyed their company. this probably shouldn’t be acceptable behavior at the dinner table but we tend to allow flanagan to get away with things he really shouldn’t. really the one in this picture in need of discipline is my mother for petting him at the table…sheesh. ...
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kym | Sunday, March 14, 2010 |
dave started feeding the koi again the other day (they don’t eat in cold weather) and it seems speck found herself another food source. it should be noted that speck is of sizable girth and is no need of further food, especially that which is stolen from the mouths of fish. the beginning part of the video was shot by dave from inside the house and right after he finished shooting speck apparently took a header into the pond. we deduced this from two things: a...
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kym | Saturday, February 6, 2010 |
not to be crass but december 2009 can go suck it - i have never experienced such a shit sandwich of a month as december 2009 in my life. sadly it wasn't even the type of crappy month that once you get past it you can look back and laugh - it was chock full of "only time will heal" moments. after demeter's diagnosis and the loss of astrid i couldn't shake that insipid "bad things happen in threes" idea and i really wish i was able to. the day after christmas we were enjoying...
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kym | Saturday, February 6, 2010 |
you know how motocross riders will test new tricks in a foam pit first so they don't kill themselves...dooley takes this idea of safety first to the extreme.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeEDTeexOa0&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
can you imagine his look of "i told you so" if one of us gets hurt while running?...
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kym | Saturday, February 6, 2010 |
fortunately for me nature provided some inspiration with which to ease back into blogging. last weekend we had the largest snowstorm we've seen in nashville in the 15 years we've been here. it was a fantastic weekend of being snowed in together and that along with the beautiful white blanket over everything (along with the silence) did my heart good. here are a few snippets for your enjoyment: indi relished being covered in snow we got a good bit of snow but the tail end was sleet so we ended...
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kym | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
in the middle of december we took demeter, jewel and dooley to the vet for what we thought would be unremarkable annual check-ups for jewel and demeter and for a recheck of a large laceration carley inflicted on dooley’s flank. at that point i thought my biggest worry was whether dooley’s butt was going to heal okay. we walked out of the vet broken-hearted after finding out that demeter had a large mass in her colon and probably a few weeks to live. an ultrasound a...
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kym | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
this is not the post i want to be writing today but sometimes life gets in the way of what we want. today is astrid’s (seen here most recently) time and we are letting her go peacefully. this decision of allowing our animals to die with dignity and peace is one that i take very seriously and one that i wish we afforded people. it is an enormous decision and one that cannot be taken lightly. when we know the time is coming we agonize over whether we’ll know...