Hope is not a strategy.. I do not very often think about "hope". But it is entering my space more and more as it relates to others. I "hope" people will really try and find kindness... be kind to people you pass on the street, still.. please. So many people need it.

Day 7 postcard from Mom lady Happy St. Patrick’s day to those who celebrate. 🍀 “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”🌈 -Dolly Parton

Big brother

Rain in Atlanta

Bacco thinking “I’ve heard the tall one say bath tomorrow twice and the bald one said it’s 80 degrees tomorrow, so a good day for a bath”… wth

Some mornings happen so fast you forget to look down and watch where you're stepping in the park.

Today for 5 hours the world was normal and filled with animated movies and cheerful walkies and naps. Today I was alone, just with my dogs and pretended everything was normal and fine... from 11 to 4.

This is the morning attitude. Always.

Maximum Spooning Event.

Bacco - “I hear you. But I’m not listening “….

So it’s nearing 70F so we managed a walk without coats. And now we’re into nap time

Bedtime boy

Hillary Clinton … how to talk. Love her!!

Rare moment where she will look at the camera. Laci’s inner monologue is “oh god, here comes that one with the photos again… I’m too old for this”

Almost 70F today and yes. After a walk we are in front of the heater.

Blueberries!!

Update on the diet. Hey everyone… we see one of the TOP vets in Atlanta…. And we are mixing the food right now with the ancient grains blend. We are not cutting out grains all together. We have a nervous eater. He will eat 3 days not eat 1 day and then eat for two days and then skip 1 day again.

We are now switching to the grain free same brand, but it isn’t venison. It’s turkey and chicken to see if we can’t get Bruno to stop refusing to eat on Tuesdays and Friday.

Rain Cave

bacco’s preferred sleeping position

Yummy. 😋

The baby

The baby is under the blanket.

When it’s freezing cold outside and daddies break out the space heater for us!

Another weekends plan scrapped by the Iggies. Not headed to the mountain cabin due to 8 inches of snowfall expected up there. Not much , but we’re expecting 3 inches here in Buckhead and that is already too much for them. Our kiddos do not like the snow!!!

Waking up to so many DMs over a caption with pic of 2 of our dogs. Long story short people. Depression after the death of my mother after decades of separation has been unbearable for me and got very dark. I am making progress. Yes being gay was part of it. The dogs & hubby were a reason to live.

I post two pics of my dogs and 50 people block me. The assumption of context. Why there is so much crap flying in our faces. I am honestly not bothered. It only confirms what I suspect about most people and why our 3 Italian Greyhounds will always prioritize everything that happens around us.

Only reason to be here anymore.

I need to add something about my dogs. The grief I’ve been going thru over the death of my mother has at times been a major problem for me. I thought my heart was really incapable of breaking. These boys are saving me. I realize that more each day.

Our Italian Greyhound refuses to eat almost every Monday.

Now that I’ve entered my 60s I do not understand how in the world our senior citizens of this country deal with the barrage of calls about things that they need to get in order to survive

So we tried the Echo Dot Alexa app thing in our home. That is not happening.

Our little girl turns 18 this month and we got healthy ck marks

Brother’d

I can truly and honestly say I’m looking forward to leaving Atlanta. The city is getting so hard to maneuver I know living in any large city you face those challenges, but we’ve been here for so long and it’s gotten worse and worse and worse.

Snake Bite. Laci was bitten by a snake during the labor day weekend which fortunately we were able to get... after Laci was bitten on the toe, Bruno and Bacco pulled it into two parts and we were able to get that to the emergency room with us. LUCKILY was not a venomous snake... antibiotics.

My little tiny mother passed away...

We’re on day 3 of much less response from my little mother. We can’t get her to open her eyes for more than a few mins … she is eating much less and stopped talking but to say daddy is there. Since my dad passed in 1998. So she’s probably hovering in the middle somewhere.

Well, we’re in the middle of the worst part of dementia and sundowners syndrome. This is brutal and I’m constantly reminding myself this is not about me my feelings this woman that is my mother is not who I think she is.

We are now 2 full days without any "ghost pain" from Bacco. Hubby and I are finally back to getting 5 uninterrupted hours of sleep.

On our way home from Dr. Stacy they can find nothing wrong with Bacco. X-ray show nothing so they’re thinking it could possibly be a soft tissue but he is giving us nothing. He’s doing nothing no whining no crying so we’re on two weeks of carpovet.

Bacco is dealing with a pretty serious ghost injury. 3 yrs ago he sprained is front left leg pretty badly and now today out of the blue he got up limping and crying. We can massage it. We can ambulate the joints and he is not bothered. So we’re off to vet in morning.

OCCASIONALLY… she will hug her little brother.

Rare moment

Evening Sun

My absolute worst day of the year that I truly despise.

Everyone has had a bath and it’s serious iggy soup nap time