We may be on top of nature’s food chain at the moment, but make no mistake; in the end, we’re all just food. Not long after we bought our Santa Cruz Mountains property I was out in the car port working on our pickup truck when I heard my dog[…] Read On
Hope ya’ll are having a fun summer and successfully celebrated the 4th without blowing up any body parts. I’m sort of taking the week off; thought I’d fill you in on what’s going on around here. No vaca or anything (wife’s consumed with a new job), just chilling in the[…] Read On
You’ve probably heard that credit card signatures will soon be a thing of the past. Like most news these days, it’s only partially true. Mastercard and Visa are simply removing the requirement for merchants. Besides, most transactions are already signature-less. You don’t seriously think they did this for you, do[…] Read On
When you consider some of society’s popular expressions about dogs, you’d think our furry friends lead torturous lives: “I’ve been working like a dog,” “it’s a dog-eat-dog world,” “it’s a dog’s life” and “they treat me like a dog,” to name a few. In reality dogs have great lives, as[…] Read On
Sometimes we get so fixated on solving a problem that’s gotten under our skin that we don’t realize the solution is worse than the problem. If you’ve ever gone full Bill Murray in Caddyshack on a backyard critter, you know what I’m talking about. A couple of years ago I[…] Read On
Our Boxer, Fletch – that’s a dog, not a fighter – is having knee surgery today for a torn CCL (similar to the ACL in humans). It’s common with certain breeds – so common that there’s a procedure called TPLO (tibial-plateau-leveling osteotomy) that’s pretty well perfected. Still a relatively long[…] Read On
The internet is rife with abusers, bullies, haters and trolls. Everyone is freaking out over it. The question is, how is that different from real life? The call to police the web – to create safe spaces away from all the ugliness of humanity and the lies people tell –[…] Read On