Posts Tagged ‘kona’

car ride

One of Kona’s favorite activities We took her to Olympia yesterday. It was her longest ever car ride and she was very good, slept much of the way. When we got to town we had to leave her in the car while we went to lunch, poor baby. But after we ate we took her […]

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thursday morning

I had a dream last night that I was in a basement and looking across the dimness at several gigantic, kitten-sized spiders sitting in their webs. I am not as scared of spiders as I used to be, but in my dreams they always tend to be monstrous. These ones were yellow, and fast. Of […]

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basic agility and tricks

Running out the door in five minutes to Kona’s first agility class, I’m typing this in fingerless gloves. If we take the back road to the class, she might start whining; she knows where we’re going. She loves going to school. Was saved this morning by Brian’s spare headphones, though the ones he loaned me […]

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daylight

The sun is out today, so we are taking Konabear on a hike Edit many months later: This is also the day my daughter was conceived.

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dog food

Made some fresh food for Kona today: 1/3 lb. ground beef, 2 c. brown rice, carrot, yam, flax seed oil, kelp powder, alfalfa leaf. Cooked it in a pot and then let it cool, gave her a cup of it with 1/4 cup of good kibble. She devoured it. Anyone who has more similar recipes, […]

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snow dog

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friends

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it snowed

blurry summer dog blurry winter dog It’s snowy and very cold. Not much of it melted at all today, and it’s so dry and fine you can’t even make a snowball out of it. Like sugar. Kona loves to run around in it. This week is going to be terribly long and frigid. I already […]

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bears

After dinner last night, we took a long walk with the dog. The air was cold and moist and opaque. Kona trotted happily along over the damp sidewalk and leaves. Halfway through the forty-minute journey, we came to the corner Chevron station, where there is a menagerie of lifelike iron bears — mamas surrounded by […]

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weekend pupdate

This weekend was all about the rubber boots I bought on Friday. I wore them both days while doing assloads of yard work. I personally filled the wheelbarrow five times with leaves and weeds and pruned plants, Brian added more today. I cleared out three big sections of the garden, raked a zillion leaves, pruned […]

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