Archive for January, 2010

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Kitty Litter

I’ve been here how many days now?…250-something?…
But it wasn’t until about a month ago – when it really started getting cold – that I began to see neighborhood cats.
Wild strays – scavengers picking through the slop tossed out for the chickens in the goat pen.
There’s this little kitty, a mouthy gray & white male, a [...]

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Rule Number One

Whenever soldiers leave…be it to gunnery, basic training, Haiti or the Middle East…rule number one is ‘Make sure your wife can pay the bills while you’re gone’.
This isn’t my rule – it’s an pseudo-official Army rule – something that’s drilled into them from the beginning.
And it’s an important one…for that I can attest to with [...]

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Puppy Love

Meet the newest neighborhood dog!
His name is yet to be determined, but he’s the new bundle of joy I helped my neighbors pick out tonight.
Their first ever family dog.
He’s sssoooooo tiny & sssoooooo cute.
It was hard not to snatch him up, run out the door & race him back to my place…never to answer the door [...]