Santa dog!

Santa dog, originally uploaded by eblackwell.
Morgan helped with the decorating last night! You gotta love that my hand has to hold her to get the picture, because she kept wrestling with Elphie and with the hat to get it off.

Roto-Rooter day!!

I’m not sure exactly how they’re going to do it, but I imagine something like this:

Stylin and profilin, baby!

Stylin!, originally uploaded by eblackwell.
That’s me, ready for surgery. Tell me that doesn’t say “Norman Rockwell Christmas card”!!

My wonderful nursemaids!

Everything went fine on Friday. The staff at the surgery center were wonderful to me, and you haven’t lived until they hand you your bra in a BioHazard bag! (They told me I could keep my underwear, but apparently that didn’t mean my bra. I had to take it off in the [...]

Surgery is scheduled

The hospital center just called: I have to be there at 10:30 on Friday.
Since this has been getting closer, I’ve getting nervous.  Nothing terrible, but it was one thing to hear my doctor say I’d be uncomfortable afterwards.  I’ve found out “uncomfortable” means “a lot of pain”, and with the packing, I won’t be able [...]

Panic attack!

I set a goal for myself back in the summer.  I would finish the fan novel I have been writing off and on for five years by Thanksgiving.
I have four chapters left to do and Thanksgiving is 3 days away!
I was doing really well for awhile; I’d get a chapter done every week.  Then we [...]

Come on vacation with us!

Well, not literally. You could, we have an extra bed, but you gotta love dogs.
On the other hand, you can come virtually on vacation with us. We have a vacation blog where we will send posts, photos, and videos from the trip. We’re even posting now about our preparations. When we get [...]

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for….

For at least a year, I’ve had bad sinus problems. I constantly get headaches and infections. It got to the point that I always have some level of congestion, pressure, and pain. After another bad infection this past May, I decided I would tell my doctor how it wouldn’t go away and [...]

Testing posting videos

From Crackle: Sleepy dogs

Ugliest dog in America

Yep, I met Elwood! I didn’t realize he held the title. I just thought he was ugly and a helluva friendly dog.