Dachshunds – Overachievers

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 8 Comments

  Overachiever — a person who achieves success well above the standard, expected, or average level—often performing beyond what is typical for their age, experience, or measured aptitude. Or a dog if that dog happens to be a dachshund. Dachshund – Heart of a lion, Brain of a fox, Body of a sausage, Bark of a Doberman One of the …

Throwing Paint on our Life Canvases

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Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can on it. ~Danny Kaye Have you ever done any painting in a purely artistic venture? I’ve done plenty of painting but most of it on flat walls where no individual expression is needed or wanted. Uniformity of color is what was desired. I suppose I did some watercolor …

A Girl, a Dachshund, a Caption Game

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Being the owner of dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the dachshund and why he can’t be trained and shouldn’t be. I would rather train a …