I know my last post was about loss, but with the passing of Betty White and her love for animals, it brought it back up again. I recently saw a post that said "I wish the Rainbow Bridge had visiting hours". But to be honest I am glad it doesn't. I then saw another post that said "Betty will be heading to the Rainbow Bridge to say hello to some of her old friends". Which got me thinking... Imagine the kooky thought of a rainbow bridge in the clouds and all of the sudden Be

This past weekend was a rough one. It's absolutely freezing outside, there was a crazy ice storm, I have a nasty cold and I have an 8 month old puppy who is bored out of his mind. Winter is a tough spot with puppies. While we want to walk them and work on leash skills, it's 7 degrees of nasty outside, so I sure do not want to do that. Although my puppy seems like he doesn't care how cold it is, I do. Trying to keep him entertained, we started with bones and running around

Each year starts off with resolutions and decisions for change, for most people. In our house we really don't believe in resolutions - not out loud per se. But this last year was incredibly hard for our house and many others we know too. We experienced some major losses. In August our basset hound, Barnes, was sick and we had to make the difficult decision to put him down. It had been coming for awhile, he had a seizure (or two) a few months before, he was already blind a