Brodie – 2007-2022
Our boy Brodie has crossed the rainbow bridge. May Valhalla welcome him! He was the best good boy…
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Brodie is having surgery again today
Brodie, our 9-year old French Bulldog/Boston Terrier mix, is having surgery today. This is his 2nd in three weeks. He had a growth on his foot that was causing him to limp and three days after I had hip surgery, my wife took him to the vet to have it removed. The pathology came back…
Continue reading →Brodie – 2013
Stamps-With-Foot and I are puppy narcissists – mostly her. We love our dog. Everyone loves our dog, even the cat people in our life. He gets his picture taken – a lot…
Continue reading →Brodie’s Letter To GrandPaw…
My father-in-law, The Chatty Buddha, sends us post cards and notes from his travels. He addresses all of them to our puppy, Brodie, to be funny/cute/antagonistic. Brodie was so excited about getting the most recent post card, that he decided to write back. With minimal help from me, Brodie crafted a fine document that if…
Continue reading →A few pictures of Laurel and Brodie this summer
Since Brodie follows my wife constantly and they are near inseparable, every time I snap a picture of Stamps-With-Foot, Brodie is there. When I leave this life I hope that I am reincarnated as a new frenchie puppy for my wife. She is fully involved with her fur-baby: he eats lavish hot food, has more…
Continue reading →BRODIE!
We have a new addition to our Family – Brodie!! He is a ½ French bulldog and ½ Boston terrier. We got him from a bulldog rescue society after he had been turned over from a shelter and nursed back to health by a foster family. My lovely bride has been not so patiently waiting…
Continue reading →Things My Wife Has Said – Volume VI
My wife has a fantastic sense of humor. It is dry and witty and she comes up with fantastic one-liners! She is HILARIOUS without forcing it. Her humor is natural, unpracticed, and off the cuff. What comes up, comes out. This is the sixth, though certainly not the last, installment of Things My Wife Has Said:…
Continue reading →Our Puppies…
Brodie is now almost 14 and is a grumpy old man. Deaf as a post, but he still LOVES his mommy. if she get out of his sight he will lose his shit. When she leaves the house he sits at the window waiting for her for hours. Truffle is 7 and her personality is…
Continue reading →Merry Christmas – 2020!
Fall is Here!
The fireplace has been lit and the puppies have taken up their spots in front. There is hot cider on the stove!
Continue reading →This weekend was full. I really need to stop working on my days off.
Welding Cart experienced a failed wheel/axle combo I said dirty words and decided to replace rather then rebuild Also decided to upgrade – just a little. Sourced new cart and used a 20% off Coupon Assembled new Harbor Freight/General Tools MIG welding cart Recorded a video of whole experiebce for YouTube channel Wired in a…
Continue reading →What I Want Thursday – April 13th, 2017
Below are the things that I really want and that are present for me today: To unclutter my life: less superfluous stuff For my hip to be 100% and to never have to use crutches again A wish for Brodie to be well and 100% cancer free More time with my children and family. Sunshine!! Summer…
Continue reading →Stuff My Wife Says – Volume II
I have written previously about some of the things that have come up in conversation with my sweet, bubbly, kind, giving, gentle, well-adjusted, awesome wife. Well, with the passage of time I have… err… SHE has more to say on the subject. Enjoy: I was splashing my wife in the hot tub the other night…
Continue reading →Obsessing Over a Possible House Remodel & Letting My OCD Shine Bright
We are currently going through a make/buy decision concerning our house in Seattle. Meaning, do we spend $200-$250K plus, months of time, and lots of sweat equity on updating our house, adding a garage/shop and dining room, and refitting the basement into an apartment for my mom. Or, do we spend $5K getting the house…
Continue reading →Puppies
I have gotten a few comments and questions about our puppies, so here is the lowdown: Brodie is our 8 year old male that is 1/2 French Bulldog and 1/2 Boston Terrier. He is a rescue that was once deemed by a shelter as “unadoptable.” NW Bulldog Haven stepped in and made sure that he…
Continue reading →Our new puppy is part cat…
Truffle has some cat DNA in there somewhere: 1. If you want to sleep and she doesn’t want you to there is a slobber attack. Don’t try to hide your head under the pillow – it won’t help you. 2. She will chase the laser pointer up the concrete column in the living room and…
Continue reading →Puppy Narcissism
Our dog is awesome. Everyone that we know likes him and he is even allowed in peoples’ homes that don’t even allow other dogs in their yard! His happiness means a lot to us and we take really good care of him: Warmed gourmet food, toys, lovin’, walks, cheese under the table, loads of attention,…
Continue reading →Very Productive Weekend – except in the yard.
I did not mow the yard this weekend. It just didn’t happen. I meant to and I wanted to… I even took the mower and cord out, but it just didn’t happen. Instead I did this: 1. Redesigned the top of the workbench that I am building. 2. Threatened for 148th time to quit Facebook….
Continue reading →My Wife REALLY loves her puppy
Stamp-With-Foot loves me, of that I have no doubt. At times though, I think that I am second fiddle to her puppy. They have been together almost 6 years and are somehow physically and psychically linked – really. No two beings are more complete and happy than when the two of them are snuggling on…
Continue reading →Our French Jardin
With my J-O-B and all that we have going on here in France (work, travel, guests, work, work…) there is NO WAY that I can have a proper garden. To scratch my farming itch, I have been medium obsessive over the grass (I have not found the desire to begin a campaign of slaughter for…
Continue reading →Road Trip to the beach in Collioure, France
We took a weekend road trip down to a small village near the Spanish border and stayed in a friend’s Aunt and Uncle’s Gite (sort of a B&B). Brodie came along and was fed all sort of yummies and got to pee on lots of new stuff – a very high priority on his list……
Continue reading →Carcassonne
The city, not the game. My wife really likes castles. Really, Really! Ruins, Chateaus, piles of stone on the top of a lonely hill: they all make her swoon. We visit whenever we are in the vicinity of one and if such a visit won’t land us in jail for trespassing. I set the bar…
Continue reading →Bench for the front entry – Project #4 in France
We are a “no shoes in the house” family. It is dry and dusty where we live in the summer and the trails near by that I run and that Stamps-With-Foot and Brodie walk on are shared with horses. We don’t want to track dirt and poo into the house. There is a great spot…
Continue reading →Weekend
We had a pretty good weekend: The house is coming together and I got a couple of small projects done. I hung a hand-tool only built pull-up bar outside to facilitate working out at home. With help from Stamps-With-Foot, I hung what used to be an old rickety wooden ladder in the living room. I…
Continue reading →France – The first 30 days.
Still Love France. My French has gotten SO bad. I did forget how slow things are to get done here. You want a buy/lease a car? Three weeks-ish. You want cable and internet? 1 month. Want it to work? 1 more week and 14 phone calls Love my J-O-B No such thing as coffee to…
Continue reading →A Few Turns of the Lathe
After our house was packed up and loaded on a container-ship bound for the Panama Canal and on to the Port of Marseilles, the only tool I had were my lathe chisels, so I made use of the time and spun out a few odds and ends: a few cord pull handles for the florescent…
Continue reading →Almost there
We are almost French residents. There was sun and left-over snow on the ground when we left Seattle. We made the 9 hour Amsterdam flight without issue and are sitting in the KLM lounge waiting for our Toulouse flight. The sun rose as we were landing and gave us a spectacular show for our first…
Continue reading →Our dog is better traveled than some of the people we know
Brodie took his first flight this week – a training flight for the Seattle to Toulouse journey that is coming up. Stamps-With-Foot has made the proper arrangements for him to fly in the cabin with us and we wanted to both see how he would do and practice dealing with his needs as well. She…
Continue reading →Some Big News…
So… My J-O-B has made us an offer that is very hard to refuse: a two year stint in the south of France and they will fly us home 3 times a year. We get to keep our house and I get to come back to my job in Seattle when that period ends. THE…
Continue reading →Hanging out in our ‘hood this weekend
We had a quiet West Seattle weekend: Friends over on Friday and we all drank no small amount of great Italian wine and ate the last of our French Comte cheese. I worked around the house and in the shop (me and the lathe are friends) Saturday morning while Stamps-With-Foot nursed a touch of a…
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