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Posted in Uncategorized, dogs on Mar 15th, 2010
A late note, but then I had the flu for a while and slept for a week or so. But Nilla has a wonderful home! Here she is with her new Hoomans, Silvia and Tony. They heard about her, and saw her videos, and knew they had to come up to Atlanta from Florida to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, dogs on Mar 1st, 2010
First off, Ms. Nilla is a flat-out wonderful dog. She has solved her housebreaking issues, and has proven herself non destructive, polite, sweet, loving, and relatively quiet. The min pin in the yard kitty corner to ours can get her going, but then I think that min pin has a potty mouth. Nilla loves to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, dogs on Jan 16th, 2010
Young Gator has been adopted by a wonderful family. He has a quiet street, a yard to romp in, a whole neighborhood of kids to throw balls for him, and a loving family. Gator is their first dog ever. Labs are good first dogs Gator and his new family will get to learn about training [...]
Posted in dogs, frit testing, glass, panic on Jan 19th, 2009
What do you do if your dog gets into your glassmaking supplies? I’m currently dog-sitting for my ex-neighbor’s two dogs, both of whom get along really well with Mr. Justin Wigglebutt, my rescue whatsit. Justin sleeps in his (open) crate in the study, because I can trust him not to chew the books on the [...]
I can be an idiot. Last week classes started, and I was busy prepping — it’s a busy time of year. I still have a large custom order to finish for Karen Thomas. Furthermore, I visit my sister twice a year, and I have no clue about how Draco the Dane would react to another [...]
Posted in Iron Mountain Jewelry, Leslie, dogs, frit testing, lampwork on Jun 30th, 2008
A much better day at the torch, although I didn’t update yesterday as promised. Yesterday I straightened up the house, and then collected my neighbor’s dogs for a week-long stay, much to the disgust of my Quality Control Inspectors. They see a dreary week of living under my bed during the days; I know that [...]
I had to have Piglet, my handicapable Welsh Corgi, put to sleep this morning. We had a scare in March, and I thought I’d lose him then. But he perked back up again. However, he’s been sleeping and dozing more and more. He had a last good weekend while I was at the Charleston show, [...]