Deaf Dogs and Benevolent Gnomes

For our Thanksgiving this year, we left the two little dogs at home for the day and only brought Shadowfax to my parents' house for di...

The weather has finally turned chilly here in North Dakota.  We're not complaining (much) since we're had a fantastic run of wa...

Shadowfax in the tub. She's not getting a bath, she just really likes to jump in there when Alycia uses the bathroom down in the ba...

Shaak Ti is 9 years old, but she still appreciates a good walk. Especially if that walk is a special "Mommy and Me" walk with Aly...

You may not know, but pit bulls are solar powered.  They need to spend hours in the sunshine to recharge their batteries, and even then the...

It's Fall here in North Dakota, both the calendar and the weather are attesting to this fact. We have had a long stretch of warm and dr...

For us, watermelon are the ultimate demonstration of gardening perseverance.  We plant them and they seem to languish in the ground for we...

We hosted out of town visitors at the homestead this weekend.  My Dad and his significant other flew in from San Diego to spend the long we...