More about Ollie
I feel the need to keep writing about Ollie to record and remember what an amazing dog he was. When we first got Ollie, we lived in the Dee-Luxe apartment in the sky which was on the 8th floor. WM…
Ollie.
Our Ollie Queen, our Best Boy, died Monday evening, August 2, 2021 at the respectable age of 14 years. He came to live with us as a 3 month old puppy in September of 2007. The post I wrote welcoming…
Beware the Dogs of March.
Actually, you don’t need to beware. They’re pretty friendly and snuggly. Ollie and Murphy are absolute pleasures to have around. And they are ALWAYS around Ollie has had a coughing issue off and on for a year now. The cough…
Ollie, January 2021
Ollie, 13.5, continues to do very well despite being an Old Pupper beset with typical Old Pupper problems. I really just wanted an excuse to share this photo: Which is just adorable and needed to be documented.
Ollie, December 2020
Last year or the year before we received a Grinch reindeer antler from our BarkBox. Because our dogs are not the well-behaved influencer dogs with 1 million followers, the photo shoot did not go well. But that’s fine because it…
Popcorn, Please!
I have created not one, but two popcorn-loving monsters. This is my view while carrying a bowl of freshly-popped popcorn to my desk. Ollie’s vision is not good, but his nose knows exactly where the bowl is. Because this is…
Ollie, September 2020
When the weather is nice and I don’t need a fantastic internet connection, I’ve been making an extra effort to take my laptop outside and sit in the shade to work. Ollie joins me, but doesn’t understand that if he…
Ollie, Summer 2020
After about a month and a half of trying to manage Ollie’s cough, it turns out he has seasonal allergies. One Zyrtec (actual, human Zyrtec) with his dinner each night is enough to bring the cough mostly into check AND…
It’s so nice to work from home…
Once a week, I get to work from home. I’m thankful for that opportunity because it makes it so much easier to have someone out to fix the latest broken thing in the house, or to sneak in a doctor…
Life with Dogs
I’m pretty sure anyone with a dog or cat has been here… It took Ollie 10 years to learn to nudge a door open so I’ll let him have his victory.
The home office staff
I have the privilege of working from home one day a week, and being a former gamer with a former gamer’s large monitor makes it easy. But I couldn’t do it at all without my home office staff. This is…
