KK,

You win the "Best Post of the Year Award"!

Sadly, my Annabelle and Clouseau, although quite brilliant, appear to have ADHD and I have such a hard time getting them to do their lessons (not unlike their human brother). However, they excel at PE and lunch.

Cassidy is a beauty! He is also more well-groomed than mine! Perhaps he could tutor...?

Love it!

Well as long as you've been doing something productive with your time away from us, we'll forgive you. Maybe Cassidy would consider being a mentor for dogs that don't have access to good reading programs.

Yay for kk and the morgue drawer doggies!!!!!!!!!!!!

(missed you! meow!)

Have you been working on the house ??? More pics ??? What ya been doing ? we missed you :) c

Glad you liked the pic. I can't take credit for it because my nieces took it. (Such the imaginations those two have.) Anyhoo, I haven't done much decorating in the house.

I spent the whole summer cleaning out the basement and garage. I keep thinking that I will get a tax audit because of the amount of donation receipts I have from this clean-up. It is soooo easy to keep storing "stuff" in the basement and garage versus deciding to get rid of it. I took over 30 cans of paint and stain to the recycling center and there have to be another thirty down there. (Stored nicely on shelves. And we are talking spray cans, quarts and mini cans - not just gallons.) It is so nice to have those spaces cleaned up.

I did some work in my yard but nothing picture worthy. Just lots of pulling weeds and adding a truckload of mulch. (I love mulch.) I do need to get back to painting the trim in on my second floor. It was installed over a year ago! Maybe I can teach the dogs to paint.

No doubt reading about ways to torture the things one finds in a morgue drawer?

Nice to see ya', but, around here, the mere specter of cleaning out the garage sends me to bed for three days.

I hear ya, KD. The garage and basement was a huge job. One of my nieces I suggested that I call the Hoarders TV show to see if they would help. It wasn't THAT bad! But her comment spurred me on. We played Hoarders TV show - Donate, Keep, Toss. The majority of the basement was filled with boxes of stuff I moved down there when I remodeled my first and second floors. When you replace 90% of your flooring everything needs to move out of the rooms. I never moved some stuff back up to the living spaces because I didn't need it or use it. Plus I had too much Christmas decorations I didn't use anymore. So much stuff was donated and recycled. I probably could have had a heck of a garage sale but I didn't want to deal with that. The garage just needed alot of organizing and boxes that needed to be broke down so they could be recycled. And left over building supplies that needed to be removed. It was so much work but I love walking through the garage now. I will never let it get that bad again!

So, go sleep for three days and get your rest. Then tackle it!

Oh I love that picture of Cassidy! How imaginative your neices are. I think I'll be "borrowing" that idea! :-)

Would expect no less from KKs pups.I had heard that the breed is extraordinarily well read.
Good to hear all is well.

KK, could I have the hi-res version of that pic? I'd like to print it out for my niece who is nuts about books - it's awesome!

TIA!

GTF, that pic is from my cellphone so I don't think it will be much better than what you see. Just right click the pic and "Save as."

precious pic!!