Back when I first started drafting this post (a while back), I thought it might be the last “pup & a plant”... but I’ve already posted m...

Caption this?

But wait...there's more... It's time for another dozen of "a pup & a plant". If you missed the earlier posts you can v...

It recently started looking like fall here in San Diego (well, if you live in a neighborhood with liquidambar trees anyway, like we do...) b...

I walked out of our bathroom the other day and found her like this on our bedroom area rug. Do you think she's trying to tell me somethi...

Yes. We're terrible. We went away to visit friends and family recently... and we didn't bring anything home for Rita. As if it w...

Last month I posted about how I exercise my brain while Rita and I are out on our walks with my Instagram " A Pup and A Plant Series....

I've been doing this thing over on Instagram. If we're connected there, you will possibly have already seen it. I call it "A Pu...

Rita, as I've mentioned before, is very picky. She's not much of a beggar because of it. Even things that normal dogs love (peanut b...

This past week my sis invited me to her house for a painting day. It was my first time painting pup portraits with acrylics, and it was a lo...

The hubs and I are members with the Temecula Olive Oil Company (their oils are fantastic!), so once per quarter I get an email that our oil...

On our walk today, I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of pretty purple plants blooming... so thought I'd share them.

Rita is... kind of odd sometimes. (Okay, a lot of the time.) One thing that's odd about her is that she doesn't really like stran...

Rita luuuuuves** her Wubba.

Did your mom ever say that to you? Mine used to when I was a kid. I've been saying it to these two nuts a lot, since they play a lotta b...

A few weeks ago, I noticed a spot in Rita's armpit. It felt like a scab stuck in her hair, so I tried to pull it out, but then realized ...

I really wanted Rita to be saying "I can see Mexico from my house!"... but technically we can't see it from our house. But we ...

I was contacted by TLC Book Tours and offered the chance to read and review " Loyal: 38 Inspiring Tales of Bravery, Heroism, and the D...

We usually cheer for the underdog here at our house. That doesn't always work out too well (take the recent Super Bowl for instance...)....

When you're out on a walk, and you hear barking, and you turn to look... ...and the barking dog is on the roof !