Category: Critters

  • There are dogs in my house. Winter and jackets are a distant memory. I'm not even sure how many days in a row we've soared above 100 degrees now, and there's no end in sight. We are breaking records left and right here in Central Texas.  Morning walks happen before the sun is fully awake…or not…

  • The puppies were pouncing in tall grass, chasing some tiny unseen prey. It made me laugh, but it was time to get home so I wouldn't be late for work. So, calling them to follow, I turned to continue down our path…and that's when I saw it: an owl sitting on a low branch not…

  •     1. Max can still run…when he's motivated.  Can you see the deer standing in the middle of the road? What about the big grin on his face, laughing at the silly puppies who think they can catch him?  (Me, either, but I'm sure he is!) 2. Real Estate License Adventure Countdown: 5 classes…

  •   I made another quick trip to see my parents this weekend, accompanied by a son and daughter this time who pitched in to help with dishes and cleaning. I'm so blessed that I still have my parents…that I only live four hours away so I can make quick overnight trips to see them…and that…

  •   I hate to wish time away, but this has been a long, tiring week, and I'm glad to be on the other side of it, with two more real estate classes behind me. Four down, two to go. Then the BIG TEST.     I missed four morning walks in a row! I felt…

  • We've been on a rollercoaster ride with my parents the past two days…my sister, Brenda, on the front lines with them, dealing with EMS and emergency rooms…me on the receiving end of texts and phone updates from her.   It started yesterday, when Daddy apparently had a mini-stroke. The sweet! of it is he made…

  • 1. I've captured Belle leaping three days in a row now. All I had to do was write about how I kept getting distracted at the last minute, and BOOM! now I stay focused. It took about fifty years, but I've finally figured out how to manipulate myself. How do you trick, er, train yourself?…

  • I started this post yesterday, then suddenly yesterday was today. Do your days blur together like that? Mine have a lot lately. I think it's because I work weekends and workdays, plus there was the 4th of July holiday in the middle of a week, and now I'm squeezing real estate school into an already…

  •   I'm so grateful my friend Lisa asked me to take some photos of her colts last year, and that I went kind of crazy, snapping away at all of the horses in the pasture, because on Tuesday I was Huffington Post's Featured Fifty Fine Artist, all because of that beautiful horse up there. That…

  •   I'm not sure if Max was mad at me for sleeping in, or if he thought it was already too hot, but Monday morning there was nothing I could do to coax that old dog to go for a walk with me. It hurt my feelings, because I didn't have time Saturday or Sunday…