My Backyard

It is hard for us to believe that Crocket has celebrated a birthday, has already turned one year old. Most days it seems to us that she is still “brand new”, only just arrived in this backyard. We are still getting used to having her around, still figuring out how to live with an energetic [...]

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Crocket has changed in many ways from the brindled bundle of puppy we first met at the airport 8 months ago. Very few things remain the same from that 8 week old puppy who flew all those hundreds of miles away from Texas to land in Warwick to join our family, that sweet little puppy [...]

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As soon as the weather turned colder than I was used to since I first moved here, I noticed that She-Who-Is-In-Charge didn’t come along on many walks with me and the Big Grownup anymore. This change in our walking routine wasn’t something that stuck out right away, but rather took me a few weeks to [...]

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When Cody left our family so suddenly, the four of us were filled with great sadness and loss. We were totally caught off guard, not prepared for the size of the hole that he left in all of our hearts. Cody was a unique part of our family, holding a special place in our life [...]

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Like all smart Tennessee Plott Hounds, I know I was born with four feet for a reason. My four feet are there to take me wherever I need to go, whenever I need to go somewhere. But the older I get, the more I have come to realize that for me, two feet is the [...]

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Before Crocket arrived on the scene, The Big Grownup was the only winter birthday that we celebrated at our house. The rest of the members of this family are summer “babies”, all three of our birthdays falling within a six week period from the beginning of June to the middle of July. Even Sam and [...]

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I am a big girl now, just big enough I have found to get myself into lots of trouble in a very big way, all of it my very own doing. Being curious and full of extra energy, I cannot help myself; I manage, without really trying very hard, to get myself into predicaments that [...]

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Being at home with Crocket all summer long reminded me a lot of what it was like all those years ago when I was at home “24/7″ with the Girl and the Boy when they were babies. Even though it was a long time ago, I can remember most everything about that stage in our [...]

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For the last eight weeks I have been very busy on Sundays. Busier than I am on any other day of the week, I should say. That’s because She-Who-Is-In-Charge and the Big Grownup have been taking me to school. The three of us have been going to classes to learn how to be good dogs. [...]

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The Christmas season sort of snuck up on us this year. Somehow our days just ran into one another without drawing any attention to the fact that the holidays were fast approaching our backyard. Our family tradition that some time during the day of Thanksgiving I bring the boxes of holiday knick-knacks and Christmas tree [...]

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