Every thinks they have the best dog and none of them are wrong. Dogs do speak but only to those who know how to listen. Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job. Please Support These American Owned Businesses ___________________________ Get Your Natural Vitamins A & D […]
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.–Robert Wagner Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.– Orhan Pamuk Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.– Elizabeth Taylor […]
Five years ago today I saved a dog, Buster, from drowning. Here’s what I wrote that night: I’m so pumped. I saved this dog. It was trapped in the big lake between #6 and #14 on the Black Jack golf course and couldn’t get out. Brigitte Gramstat Griffith […]
One of my favorite watercolor and graphic design artists is Jill Vance Bukowski out of Hewitt, near Waco, Texas. I first met Jill–from Portales, New Mexico–in December of 1983. As the construction supervisor overseeing a new H-E-B Food-Drugs store we affectionately name “Challenger 7,” (it was the 7th […]
Today in History January 23, 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company rolled out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs–now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees. The story of the Frisbee began in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie […]
On Inauguration Day it had been raining and misting here for a while. Our dog, Mr. Beefy, (a direct descendant–the firstborn–of Fortunado El Conquistador AKA “Nato” of Phoenix, Arizona) needed to go outside, but was hesitant, so I walked with him. The Beef is quite the sniffer. Knowing […]
In our neck of the woods–the Texas Hill Country, over an hour northwest of San Antonio–we usually have to travel to see winter snow. Wouldn’t you know it? The one year San Antonio experienced a whopping 13.5 inches of snow in 1985, the International Airport had loaned their […]
Someone found an older stray dog in San Antonio last week and took it to the local animal shelter. On Monday, the San Antonio Animal Care Services (ACS) posted on their Facebook page was named “Honey.” ACS staff members scanned Honey for a microchip and discovered he was […]
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