Juno has been painting with her talented and beautiful maternal grandmother in Nelson. They are both putting on a gallery show this weekend! In this blog, these are pictured as “tiled mosaic”, but are nine of Juno’s individual paintings! Don’t you just want to buy them all? I certainly do! Continue reading
We have a beautiful assortment of pet guests this Canada Day long weekend. All the comings and a few goings have tired me today, and it’s almost time to get supper together. I’m resting and chatting with you instead, and wishing I had the energy that I had this morning. I guess in THAT sense, … Continue reading
My sister’s golden retriever died in the night. Taffy had just passed her 15th birthday; she was adopted from a shelter as a young adult dog. Taffy had many pleasant years on the farm in Rae’s company. I had made an effort every day that Taffy was with us, to get her to her feet. … Continue reading
I did some running around yesterday. My intention in mid-week was to get lawns mowed in town, but Thursday was too busy with customers coming and going, and then Friday it poured rain. I had many errands in the afternoon and felt rather “accomplished” in the end … recycling and garbage dealt with, shopping, delivering … Continue reading
After Father’s Day Brunch at the beautiful Riverside cafe in Tete Jaune, with Gary and Shelly, and after getting home and talking my poor customers’ ears off, I set about tending of flower beds. “Tending of flower beds” has a rather gentile, couth and euphemistic ring to it, wouldn’t you say? This was far from … Continue reading
I do love my work. I’ve had a couple of fairly busy days. I don’t know how men or women who have busier grooming shops can stay on their feet and groom six or eight or ten pets per day, week in and week out. But that’s them and this is me, and I’m not … Continue reading
It is such an honour to spend the day with these precious dogs. We have some history together aside from visiting with them here at the Pet Hostel: their late mother, Sadye, was a stray here at one time. We all knew that Sadye was a purebred dog, and friends fell in love with her. … Continue reading
