How do we know we’re making the right decision?
How do we know when our decision not to pursue invasive or further treatment for our dogs is right? It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write on for a long while. But it’s not...
Tagged: Susie-Belle
Patti and Susie-Belle
“Hi Janetta, would it be possible for us to have a chat on the phone please?” When I read Sandy’s message I lowered my eyes and knew. Sandy has never asked this before. Since...
Rupert and friendships
I credit Renae’s well adjusted approach to life to the early, happy years spent with canine friends like Rupert and Watson.
As the year closes
I wrote this two years ago. It was minus six degrees this morning as Albert Claude and I went up the lane and round the pond in time to see the Winter Solstice sun...
Do you know what you were doing?
Yesterday a Facebook memory popped up and reminded me what I was doing exactly ten years ago. Quite similar, weirdly, to what I am now doing, a decade on. Only this time I am...
When A Walk Is Much More
This month we’ve been supporting the Schnauzerfest awareness campaign: Spring Forward For Schnauzerfest. It’s a celebration of getting out on daily walks, giving dogs the freedoms and joys that come from this. Sharing the...
Here we are again
When I let my mind return to the final moments with Susie-Belle, I am as disturbed by it now, seven years on, as I was then. It feels like seven seconds ago.
I sent out my newsletter on Wednesday – squeaking in before we moved into September – and have been asked about something I mentioned.
Yesterday was Michel’s birthday (and Albert Claude’s), and I said we were whipping out to a local restaurant with friends for lunch, which is a rare event for us. We don’t eat out much,...
Why I stay on social media
I’m writing my fifth book which revisits a dark time for me. But the dogs kept my problems in perspective and Facebook memories tell me this.
Creating and keeping memories
I’ve been going through photographs recently. It began as a task to find one for the cover of the 2022 Schnauzerfest Calendar. Having Susie-Belle there has become a tradition. Each year when I’m asked...