Tag Archives: Travvy
Whacked by an Owl
I got home from writers’ group a little after nine last night. The downstairs outside light was on, but both the deck and the apartment were dark. Getting out of the car, I couldn’t see Travvy but I knew he … Continue reading
At Sepiessa
Late yesterday afternoon I took Trav to the M.V. Land Bank’s Sepiessa Point Reservation so he could get his paws wet and we both could see something other than the same old same-old. Sepiessa is a great spit of land … Continue reading
6 Towns in 3 Days!
You knew it, I knew it: if I’d made it to five of the six island towns in the same week, I had to go for #6 before the week was out. So this afternoon Travvy and I took a … Continue reading
Logistics
Thinking about “getting around,” as in “I use my car mostly to get around” and “If I didn’t have a car, how would I get around?” . . . By the middle of last week, the noise coming from the … Continue reading
Green Green
The unfolding of spring this year has been unusually entrancing, or maybe it’s just that I’ve been more-than-usually entranced. In winter, I packed my little Canon PowerShot on late-afternoon walks when the gathering clouds promised a vivid sunset. These days … Continue reading
Reactivity
I can’t say that everything I know I’ve learned from my dog, but Travvy has taught me a lot, and not just about dogs. Travvy is reactive. I didn’t know what reactivity was before a dog trainer put a name … Continue reading
March Snow
Online some people have been threatening to do nasty things to the poor groundhog, all because snow fell after the spring equinox. Get a grip, people. Any critter who didn’t see her shadow in my town on February 2 should … Continue reading
Workspace Overhaul
Amnesia has its uses. I can’t really remember how awful my back felt when I whined about it almost a month ago. I do remember how long it took to get out of bed or pull my socks on, and … Continue reading
Fire and Ice
After The Big Blizzard, the one that dumped 8 or so heavy crusty inches of snow here and 20 or 30 inches elsewhere in New England, I created a folder called “February 2013 Snow” and put all my photos in … Continue reading
February Snow
You’ve probably heard that a major winter storm hit the U.S. Northeast in the last couple of days. Unlike some storms in recent years, this one pretty much lived up to the hype, but c’mon — Nemo? Who came up … Continue reading
From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . . 