We met up with my cousin Jeanette, her husband Hiram and her kids Leslie, Nathan and Melody to pick apples in Ohio. It was about this time last year when we stayed on an orchard in British Columbia, Canada. We learned so much about apples last year so we knew how to pick the best…
I woke up Wednesday morning after election day and realized the US still didn’t have a winner for the presidential race. I had a feeling it was going to be a long day (or week?! or month?!) and I was going to need a project to keep my mind busy. I’ve been wanting to make…
My rainbow leopard dress matches James’ Halloween hat perfectly! So I decided to tuck up and stitch the floor length dress to make it look more like a circus ringmaster. If only I had a cane and a top hat! Happy James: What do you think of my dress? I think it is fun and…
I wasn’t going to dress James up in a costume this year for Halloween since we knew kids really weren’t going to be trick-or-treating because of Covid. But I was at Target and I saw this cute sequined hat for dogs and I had to get it for James! He wore it for a few…
I stopped at JoAnn fabric the other day (I am making some new holiday bandanas for James) and I noticed people coming out of a big store next door. It looked like an Asian supermarket – like the one we liked in Orlando. I walked over there and sure enough – it was a really…
This video was recommended to me on YouTube and the edit is absolutely fantastic! I enjoyed it so much I decided I wanted to post it here on the blog. It is a compilation video of dance scenes from old movies edited to the 2014 song Uptown Funk.
I fell down a rabbit hole of vintage Poodle photos this afternoon. I finally had to put my laptop away! So many of these vintage photos made me smile! This one is so cute because she has a Poodle handbag! I think she just said “I want another Poodle” ha:
I love gummy bear candy! This is a fairly new thing. I’ve always been a chocolate fanatic, but in the last 5 years or so I now have a thing for gummy bears. Living in Austria and Germany probably pushed me to love them more since Haribo gummy bears originated in Germany and they are…
We all know this has been a weird year with Covid and business shutdowns. James was groomed in Atlanta back in January 2020 and then for non-Covid reasons, I decided to buy this Arco Cordless clipper kit on Amazon. I had been joining James on grooming visits since his groom in Nuremberg, Germany and I…
I decided to buy some charcoal beauty products and test them out. I am not sure that charcoal topically really cleanses as much as taking activated charcoal internally, but I still thought the idea was fun. My absolutely favorite item of the haul was the Briogio Scalp Revival Charcoal + Coconut Oil Micro-exfoliating Scalp Scrub…
Last fall I told you about the amazing Dark Chocolate Coconut Almonds we found in Canada at Bulk Barn. Today, I was wandering around Costco when I spotted a huge bag of Edward Marc Chocolatier Coconut Almonds with Dark Chocolate. The bag is huge – 32 ounces! And they are on sale right now for…
I can’t believe the summer is coming to an end. We were in Virginia for the 4th of July and we took some summer photos with James. I am not doing any therapy dog work with James because of Covid restrictions but I still dressed James up in a patriotic costume for the holiday (James…
James has a new puppy friend in the neighborhood and her name is Belle. Belle is a Samoyed and she is SO cute! Belle is absolutely enamored with James. She can spot James WAY down the trail and she will start barking! She has also figured out when we walk past her house (I think…
It seems like poor taste to joke about something that has really been awful this year. But in times of crises, I think we can cope with laughter. Anyone from Florida, or even the United States, would know there is not a ski resort in Florida. So that makes that meme above pretty funny. But…
Poor James the Poodle had another anal gland infection. If you haven’t been following our blog, here are the posts about last year’a awful anal gland infection here, and here and also here. ***If you are grossed out by medical or anything body fluid related you might want to skip this post. I really just…
We live in the Virginia Highlands area of Atlanta with a rails to trails path nearby called The Beltline. It is one of the nicest rails to trails paths because there are lots of stores, parks and restaurants along the Beltline. Before the Coronavirus shutdown, I walked to CorePower Yoga (an awesome hot yoga studio…
It is weird to think that we have a curfew here in Atlanta from 9pm to 7am. I don’t like walking James late at night and I’ve always preferred going to the grocery store in the morning. But the idea that I can’t run out for a 10pm late night ice cream snack is just…
I’ve taken a few photos with my phone over these past few weeks – just in case I forget how crazy this pandemic was. I mentioned yesterday we bought some “just in case” food at Costco in late February and two of those items were paper towels and toilet paper. I wasn’t aware of how…
I wanted to blog about our Coronavirus Covid-19 experience. I know in many years I will forget (hopefully) how crazy these times were. Back in February we had been reading about the virus and we had bought some items at Costco “just in case.” We knew we would be leaving Atlanta in April (that isn’t…
I can’t believe it has been a month since I made our face masks. When I was making them, I honestly just wanted a Saturday afternoon craft project. I don’t have my sewing machine or fabric collection here in Atlanta, but I do have a tiny travel sewing machine and some leftover fabric from some…