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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ~Mark Twain We’ve named a puppy. We’ve named a cat. We’ve even named two horses and a dog. You all have been wonderful name pickers. With these dog names, you have me second guessing naming Frankie Frankie. Maybe I should have …
So have you ever wondered what your dog would name you? Or if perhaps he does have a dog name for you? I think Frankie’s for me is a high pitched yippy bark. The bark that makes me frown and tell him “NO!” lol. But we’re not naming us. We’re naming them and I have a new dog needing a …
So far you’ve come up with great names for a puppy and some wonderful names for a cat, but now we’re going in a new direction. So how about naming a horse or two? The Kentucky Derby is this Saturday so horses are in the news. Have you ever thought about how many horses have official names? Registered names. It’s …
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days. (Bill Dana) Thanks to all of you who suggested great names for the puppy in the picture I posted on Wednesday. Everybody agreed she was very cute. I guess I should have told you the puppy was a girl, …
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ~William Shakespeare Are you ready for a new contest to maybe win a book or two? I wanted to try something different this time. Don’t worry. We’ll do that Mystery Picture one when my new book, River to Redemption, comes out this summer. …
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect.” —Chief Seattle I’ve said before on here that writing a novel can be thought of as making a web, something where each strand of web connects …
Take a walk with Frankie and me down the creek as we go hunting wildflowers. Every spring I try to find a good day, at least once and even better twice, in the spring to go wildflower hunting. It’s not an easy quest. The path down to the creek is steep and rocky. You can slide down if you’re not …
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simply charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. (Therese of Lisieux) Wild violets are not always violet colored. That is purple. Sometimes they are white. Sometimes they …
Why do you think there are so many June weddings? I hear you out there saying schools out. It’s vacation time. But I say it’s because romance blooms in the spring along with all the lovely flowers. So this post we’re thinking romance with some stories from readers that are not at all the same. First here’s Mandy with a …
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” (Pablo Neruda) Here we are starting the second week of April and yesterday snow covered the ground and the weather guys actually have snowflakes in the forecast again tonight. So while the quote above is good that whether we have flowers or not, we still have spring, maybe …