instagram

loving my new mad photography skills as evidenced by my amazing instagrams.   ;)   though most of the people i follow seem such amateurs and not quite the professional like moi.  if only i had a more interesting life or more time... then i might start instagramming something other than jimmy and piper.... ;)

Waiting for Quattro

the life of Maddie

This week we mourn the loss of Madison - beautiful little girl of my friend Sasha.  She had eight great years and eleven great puppies... with an Orvis Cover to boot!  She was rooting on those Tarheels last night up in doggie heaven.  Please send your prayers now towards Milly, her daughter on the right, who also has doggie lymphoma.

 

PD is missing me

sadly i've been an unfit mother for much more than the blog... the neurosurgery ICU has completely dominated all my energy and pipe-dog is perpetually sad when I get home.

another trip to Cover and Jeff's pad so she could hang with Ellie, her sister from another mister, was her consolation prize last weekend.

though we still locked her out after she got ridiculously wet in the jacuzzi...

two week recap

work-play work-play makes for an idle blogger

Rihanna

 

my Birthday!

 

the Robot

 

the Danceoff

 

repeat Cover and Jeff and Ellie weekend with homemade pizzas

Trouble rearing its adorable head

 

a visit from Piper's boyfriend Champ

ok - so more play than work

 

my day-to-day office at its finest

Piper gets a party

my sweetheart piper is never going to let me forget just that... that she is my sweetheart and no one else ever will be.  she apparently has learned to read traditional western languages, left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and now proudly parades her pillow around correctly to see if we can get it right, too.

old ladies reba and lilly came by for the weekend to play.  purposefully dodging my early morning photography session with quick steps and fancy spins to face the opposite direction of my tantalizing calls.

dad's ingenious method of letting the two old bitties out into the yard and not have to chase either one down.  sadly these canines don't have advanced thought-processing abilities like we like to think they do ... namely they are unable to coordinate an escape into the treasure-trove that is the neighbor's yard.  instead they end up all twisted around my sad little hydrangeas and eventually conned into the live-dog trap that is the back of the yukon.

until next visit!

A Love Affair

Our little lady has fallen hard.  For our houseguest, Little-Man-Etier, aka the Champ.  He is here for an extended weekend while Mom and Pop celebrate their anniversary in NYC...

First glances...

First Kisses

the Etier's couldn't be more pleased, they had given up and planned for him to remain a bachelor his remaining years...

Ahhh.  Love at first sniff.