I could barely contain my excitement when I saw him... Standing like a giant blinking beacon outside the Ware Public Library... I love him... and if I thought I wouldn't get caught... or that he would even come close to fitting in my Miata... He would be MINE.. MINE I TELL YOU!!!
My son and his girlfriend had to have their dog Sasha put down last nite. She had been sick for a couple of weeks now but yesterday she couldn't even stand for any length of time on her own. An emergency room vet visit revealed that she was highly anemic.
The cause.
ONIONS.
I had made a beef stew loaded with onions a few weeks back and my son's girlfriend, not liking onions, had given her leftovers to the dog not realizing that onions are highly toxic to dogs. Frankly, we're all shocked. We knew about the usual chocolate issues but had no idea that onions (and to a lesser degree garlic) were harmful. It was a sad way to learn such a lesson, and Sasha will be missed.
Please, if you know of anyone that feeds table scraps to their beloved pets, pass along this bit of information. I just wish someone had let us know about it quite some time ago.
It came to my attention at Thanksgiving dinner that some in the family may not realize that I actually have a second blog. The one your reading right now is my original and more personal, but I also do one for the local newspaper website. It's called appropriately enough:
Bay Road Photo
In fact, if you Google Bay Road Photo, anything image related that comes up should be me, including the Masslive blog and my Etsy store. So, yeah, I'm pretty much everywhere... up and down and all around this great big interweb... It really is a good thing there is actually 4 of me!
I shot some family portraits... How Mike ended up escaping the camera, I'm not sure, but I'll grab him tomorrow!
Just a quick note to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving. Gotta run.. I've got 8 hungry mouths to feed for the holiday, including my own. I'm sure there will be photos.. lots and lots of photos!
Gretchen has just gone through a HUGE growth spurt and is now 4 times her original size. Ok.. not really.. this is my 'house guest dog'... Sasha... She came back home to live in my cellar along with my son and his girlfriend... now if we could just get the 2 dogs to get along maybe I can get a shot of them together where they aren't trying to kill each other... they are getting somewhat better so hopefully it'll happen eventually.
We still have an amazing amount of leaves on the trees for November but off in the distance there's snow on the top of Mount Monadnock. I even spotted a few flakes falling from those grey storm clouds this afternoon but not nearly enough to show up in a photograph. I can't wait for the first really good snow shower.
So busy these days I haven't had time to shoot much of anything. I find that if I don't get 2 days off in a row I just get tired. You know tired. The kind of tired that only a day of sitting on the couch and watching old movies can cure it, tired. So, here's one from the archives that never got posted from the trip to Cape Cod. I'm glad I looked back at these, I really like this one and the little crane hanging out in the water under the dock is just a little extra bonus!
Luckily this week I'm back to 2 days off in a row. So I should be able to get back on track. I hope. I also gave up a couple of my mornings that I usually go out shooting so that I could get my Etsy store back up and running. I missed going out and about with the camera's but it was worth it, within a couple of days I had another sale. I've still got more work to do, I've got to get my Christmas card selections up there, but that shouldn't take too long. Gah... busy.. busy.. busy...
It doesn't get any fresher than this. When I got home from work last night my husband had a little gift for me. He had spent the day down at the ocean out fishing on his father's boat and apparently shopping in some pretty cool gift shops. As soon as I walked in the door he presented me with a plastic take-out container with this rather sad looking oyster in it. Cracking it open and fishing through the slime for a good minute or two eventually produced this beautiful pearl! The gift even came with a pretty twin dolphin pearl cage necklace to put my new treasure in and wear. Now how COOL is that!! All I know is my husband now has a license to go off fishing with his Dad any time he wants.. provided he brings me more plastic take-out containers full of pearls! :)
I'm not sure if I've posted this to the blog off the top of my head (apologies if it has been) but there is an update on it... I entered it into the Masslive.com Fall Foliage Photo Contest and it was published a couple of days ago as an "Honorable Mention".. Yup... I'm Honored as well... :)
I noticed this new banner while I was out on break... say it isn't so Santa!
I don't usually (read never) post pictures of strange children but this one was just too cute... It was trick or treat at the Wally world last night and the kid on the right, dressed as an organ grinder monkey was just adorable... till I downloaded the shots and realized what the kid was doing with his finger... Which of course.. made the shot cuter than EVER! LOL
