i will always consider him my first…

husky. i was living in Burlington, Vermont, in 1990…i looking for a new apartment. my boyfriend suggested his friend’s house, he rented out rooms of his beautiful Victorian house. i met his friend…Gavin was a bit intimidating, but he had brought along his husky, named Kahn, to meet me. to see if we would suit…

how to turn your black car interior white…

step 1. adopt a Siberian Husky from your state’s Siberian Husky rescue organization. step 2. own a car with black interior & take your Siberian Husky, while she is blowing her coat, for rides with all the windows open. Nala went with me today to drop the kids off at the movie theater. I keep…

i don’t know what it is, but i want it…

ok. i grew up in a very small town. every store/shop/doctor was owned by MY neighbor. Montpelier, Vermont doesn’t want big chains to take over the uniqueness of the town. my father had his own practice as the local optometrist. i gotta tell you, wherever my father went, people would greet him by name. i…

husky under the table

too hot for her to be anywhere else. Nala didn’t want to go into the water yesterday, i think she knew if she did, she would have to have a bath. Nala strongly dislikes baths.

i found Vermont in Alabama

Petals from the Past 16034 Co. Rd. 29, Jemison, Alabama 35085 These gardens reminded me of my mother’s perennial beds in Montpelier, Vermont. The gardens she would dig in the dirt, swearing under her breath at the deer that had eaten her bulbs. She called the deer, Bulb Breath… The style of gardens surrounding the…

oh, lily how you shine

this little man-made pond was at Petals from the Past. An amazingly beautiful place that I will be posting pictures of for the next few days. I also have to find the brochure so that I can tell you where it is. Because it is an hour south of Birmingham, Alabama. But…for me, it felt…