It's a busy dog coat season and the sewing machine has been running constantly! Here are some things I've been making for Noodle and Friends... there are certainly some happy and dry dachshunds out there somewhere. Classic Trench coat with rain cape, epaulets, D Rings, faux button down gusset and closes in the...
Buddy the dog spots the first fall leaf. © DFries Fall is subtly awakening as Summer quietly goes to sleep. Without fanfare it shows up, with its chills, its vibrant colors, its crispness of sound and light. It sneaks in like a thief stealing the daylight, shortening our days and lengthening the night....
Honey bee, almost too heavy for lift off! © DFries "The most curious fact of the Spiderwort plant is that the middle stamen will turn pink instead of its usual blue when in the presence of small amounts of radiation and maybe even radon." I’d love to have a weed-free garden full of...
John Gould [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Once you see this video it's amazing anything escapes a Peregrine. With speeds of up to 200 mph and an all time recorded speed of 242 mph (National Geographic) this is a bullet of a bird. ...
Turning a give-away into a Belly-Protecting Doggy Coat It was just a few short months ago where it was still snowing here in New England, the sloppy kind too, wet, slushy and cold. If I had to drag my belly through that just to go to the john I would be miserable. For...
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, missing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land ...
What you need: Available window boxes Some nice soil, perhaps with some wilted flowers for cushion A good view with some height Magic ...
Stealing myself against the carnage that could be inside the house, I touched my hand to the doorknob, to my surprise the door flung open by the man who was my nearly 80-year-old Uncle. He was barely able to control the barking beast that minutes before I was afraid may have ingested his...
And just like that I realized he was crazy, and although at that young age I didn't have words for what he was now I would label him alcoholic, mentally ill and violently tempered, unstable. So, because of him, this man I called father, I grew up in a house without any joy,...
And Lessons Learned from Spaceman Spiff With two ADHD/ADD children and one (fortunately only one) ADD husband, someone at my house is usually looking for something, forgotten something or is running late. Then, on a different day and under different circumstances suddenly they’re right on, making sense of chaos, the...
By Johannes Hevelius (28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons For a creative person I’m very bad at identifying constellations in the night sky. Most of them look like the Big Dipper to me and then, when I realize it’s not, then it must be, hmm, let’s see… long...
One of my favorite pictures of my youngest on a playful trip to theArnold Arboretum in Boston with the beloved "Ginger" our Peurto Rican Basset Hound One of my favorite pictures of my youngest on a playful trip to theArnold Arboretum in Boston with the beloved "Ginger" our Peurto Rican Basset Hound ...
