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May 6, 2016
Grand BUMP
My grandbump is the size of………a Volkswagon bug? A Breadbox? Well, I have a BIG Breadbox!
The bun in this breadbox is much beloved and anticipated with mucho joy.
They (singular) will come when they are good and ready. It ought to be this month.
Whatever day is the day of their (singular) birth, will be Mother’s Day and Grandmother’s Day and a much celebrated Birthday!!!
I am getting anxious but I must remind myself to chill out. My daughter is handling this all with grace and dignity and I shall strive to do the same!!!
Happy Mother’s Day to every mother, grandmother and bump out there!!!
Filed under: babies, birth, birthday, daughters, grandparenting, pregnancy, The Basset Plantation Tagged: babies, Birthday, daughter, family, love, pregnancy
May 5, 2016
Feathered Kids
Happy Mother’s Day to Bird Moms Everywhere!!!
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: Birds, chickens, doves, parenting birds, pet birds, Pets, The Basset Plantation Tagged: birds, chickens, doves, love, Mother's Day, parenting birds, pets, pigeons, rescued birds
May 4, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
Filed under: Basset Hounds, Blog Paws, Dog Rescue, Dogs, Love, Pets, The Basset Plantation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: basset hounds, BlogPaws, Dog Rescue, dogs, love, Mother's Day, pets, Wordless Wednesday
May 3, 2016
Tongue Out Tuesday
May 2, 2016
May
Mother’s Day
Gwen and Me
Rudy’s Birthday at the Rainbow Bridge
Duffy’s Birthday at the Rainbow Bridge
Gwen and Austin’s Anniversary
Wedding Day
My Sister’s Birthday (name changed to protect the guilty)
Jamie Winslow
My Brother’s Birthday (ditto this name)
Steven K. Tata
Pete’s Birthday – he turns 8!
Sweet Pete
Birth of my first grandchild? Most likely!!!
WHAT A MONTH!
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: babies, birth, birthday, brothers, daughters, Dogs, Family, Holidays!, Pets, siblings, sisters, The Basset Plantation Tagged: basset hound, Birth, Birthday, dogs, family, holidays, parenting, parenting daughters, pets, sisters
April 29, 2016
Heart Dogs
Memory Garden
Beloved Rainbow Bridge Dogs
Always in our hearts
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Filed under: Basset Hounds, Dogs, haiku, Pets, poetry, Rainbow Bridge, The Basset Plantation Tagged: basset hounds, dogs, haiku, pets, poetry, Rainbow Bridge
April 28, 2016
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Throwback Thursday to one year ago!!! Only today it is raining like crazy – the garden loves it – the Bassets – not so much!
..with silver bells
…and cockle shells
…and three Bassets
all in a row!
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: Basset Hounds, Dogs, Gardening, Pets, The Basset Plantation, Throwback Thursday Tagged: basset hounds, dogs, gardening, pets, poetry, Spotsylvania, Throwback Thursday
April 26, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
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My good friend featured us in her blog today – happy reading!!!
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016
SORRY…AND CATCHING UP
Greetings! Long time no blog. First, I would like to send out big, warm virtual hugs to those people who sent me nice messages. They were so kind; not one of them said, “hey slacker, what the heck is going on?” I apologize for my hiatus.
For those that don’t know, I went on vacation to Virginia during the second week of April, where I played with dogs and chickens and my wonderful friend Ginny Phillips who blogs over atgspotsylvania.
Henrietta Poppy
Millie
Tiffin
I’m sorta, kinda caught up from being away. As much as I’m ever caught up, I guess. Anyone else feel perpetually behind? Ah well, ’tis life. It’s all about the journey, right? While I was away, it snowed in NE Ohio. Left several inches on the ground. But then I returned to the mowing season. My dog Rufus was getting lost in the grass, so I figured it was time to drag the mower out. While I complain about the snow in Ohio, let me say right now, I’m glad I don’t live in Denver. Unless you’re a snow lover living there, I’m so sorry Denver folks. I hope this last storm is it for y’all now.
I did quite a bit of reading while I was on vacation–that’s the joy of vacationing with a fellow book lover. Finished up a great book from Lindy West called Shrill, Steve Hamilton’s new one–The Second Life of Nick Mason–fantastic, and the upcoming book from Ben Winters,Underground Airlines. I’m on a run of good books and worried about when I’m going to hit that bad one that wrecks everything. I don’t think it’s my current read, though–Broken Ground(Karen Halvorsen Schreck) is off to a great start. You’ll be hearing about them all in more detail eventually, of course.
Since I drove down to Virginia, I got plenty of good audiobook time in as well. Finished up Michael Robotham’s Close Your Eyes; David Taylor and Keith Szarabajka once again blew me away with the audiobook for Night Work (the second Michael Cassidy historical crime novel); and now I’m listening to a fun audio called Spill Simmer Falter Wither, which is dog-centric instead of crime-centric.
What good books have you been reading or listening to lately?
I posted this on Facebook, so you may have already seen it, but it’s in print so I feel like it’s real now, and I can share it with people–even though I still have a hard time believing it. I’m going to interview Fredrik Backman for his bookstore appearance at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, IL next month. If you are in the area…whether you live there or are maybe in Chicago for BEA…I hope you’ll come out. I’m so thrilled and excited about this. Hopefully I manage to keep my inner fan girl under control and won’t make a fool out of myself.
Coming up on the blog I have plenty of reviews to catch up on, but I also have an interview with debut novelist, Pamela Wechsler. She’s a first time novelist, but she’s writing and consulting for TV prior to her first book, Mission Hill. I’ll be sharing that interview with you tomorrow. I thoroughly enjoyed Mission Hill, a legal thriller, and it’s due out next week, so I’ll be reviewing that for you later this week as well.
I’m also hoping to get a new post up, probably next week, about the books I’m looking forward to this summer–as far as I know at this point anyway. And I have more posts for Where Jen’s Book Thoughts’ Readers Are Reading. I’m still taking submissions (details here). If you haven’t sent one yet, I hope you’ll consider doing so. I’d love to have YOU on the blog. It’s been fantastic connecting with some of you for the first time through this feature. So thank you to everyone who’s sent something in so far.
That’s it for today. I’ll be back tomorrow with Pam Wechsler. I hope you’ll join us. Thanks so much, my book-loving friends. Happy reading!
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Labels: Ben Winters, David C. Taylor, Fredrik Backman, Karen Halvorsen Schreck, Keith Szarabajka,Lindy West, Michael Robotham, Pamela Wechsler, Steve Hamilton
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: book review, Books, chickens, Dogs, Jen's Book Thoughts, Pets, reading, The Basset Plantation, writing Tagged: book reviews, Books, chickens, dogs, Jen's Book Thoughts, pets, reading, writing
