All posts filed under: Dogs

Look Up …

December 29, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Dogs / Farm Life / Living Authentically / perspective / The Human Condition

Outside it’s drizzling that ‘just above freezing’ damp, bone-chilling cold that I find particularly horrible. My dreams of a white Christmas went unanswered this year and maybe that’s a perfect ending to a particularly difficult year for both our country and for the world. I’ve tried reminding myself how badly we need rain here in Eastern Washington. Nice try, but the truth is, its yucky outside and no amount of pasted-on optimism is going to […]

Love really is a 4 letter word …

February 11, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Dogs / Follow Your Heart / Mortality

Well, it’s official … our household has gone to the dogs. To two puppies actually, Moose & Maya. These little fur balls with sugar sweet faces and fluffy soft white fur (when they’re not smeared with poop) have turned out to be terrorists in disguise.   The M&M’s teethe on everything they can fit in their mouths and generally rip it to shreds, pee copious amounts of urine frequently, howl when they want attention (which […]

Sudoku changed my life …

January 15, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Dogs / Follow Your Heart

I’m going to blame it on Sudoku. For some reason that I cannot understand two of my kids are obsessed with these puzzles. I look at all those numbers and instantly break out in hives. Not them however, my mystifying offspring vie for the daily Sudoku in our newspaper, cynically placed in the want ads just under ‘Pets’ … Wicked. So it happened that at breakfast while working out the days puzzle my son casually […]

Follow their lead …

September 18, 2024
by Nancy Emeral
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Dogs

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.”    Charles M. Schulz I woke up and there she was at my bedside, my 80 pound genetic mash-up of a dog. Her round brown eyes reaching out, pleading for a morning adventure. “Get up, let’s go for a walk. There’s so much to smell from the night.”  She, […]