Category: another day in the life
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A poodle runs through it
I was thinking of Norman MacLean’s book A River Runs Through It the other day, and the last line, “I am haunted by waters.” I am haunted by poodles.
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El Prieto 2008 or how I nearly shattered my kneecap, broke my ankle, killed my iPod and cut off my finger in one day
Greetings! It was quite a weekend, this weekend just past. Actually, it was just a hell of a day. It started early with the 15th annual running of Chuck’s El Prieto Handicap. This was a downhill year, which means a good part of the course (a lot of which was single track trail) was, well,…
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Yikes! Has it really been a month?
Wow, time flies when you are working non-stop! And we have been! We’re getting a little downtime this weekend, though, and we’re heading up to Solvang to run the Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon. It’s a beautiful point to point course (from Los Olivos to Solvang) and everybody gets a wine glass at the…
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This one is for Kyra…
We shot some awesomely cute video of Remi and Bijou…the best miniature poodles we know, bar none…while they were staying with us. They wrestle like this a lot, doing things like grabbing each other’s jaws and generally appearing to be intent on killing each other. And yet, they never bark or cry – they are…
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The new kids in town
I have a confession to make. It’s been weighing on my conscience for a while now. I am a worm killer. Well, honestly, it was involuntary wormslaughter. We killed them through sheer neglect (and one heat wave). Things started off okay; the little guys were wriggling away, there was lots of shredded paper and oodles…
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Today we wrote a lot of checks
*sigh* This was our first full year as a small business and we didn’t pay enough in quarterly taxes. So we owe money. To everybody. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we qualify for the economic stimulus check! And because we’re married, we get $1200 – that’s twice what a single person…
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