Weekly group dog walks and cuddling sessions in St Andrews during University term!
—Dog Walking Society St Andrews
These pictures are from their Facbook page.
Angus in Scotland mentioned this, so I now have another place to go for my doggie fixes.
Another thing to be grateful for.
November 5, 2025
I was thrilled to read that they are making a new Air Bud movie, and have chosen the pups that will star in it:
I watched the original over 25 years ago, not for the story, but just to see the pup. So the article made me smile.
Has anyone else ever seen the movie?
There’s way too much story, of course, and not enough scenes with the pup, but thinking about it still makes me happy. It also makes me grateful that I have so many easier ways now to get my doggie fixes.
November 4, 2025
Some people start decorating for Christmas as soon as Halloween is over. We don’t decorate down here any more, but when we got our tree from up on the land it was always on December 19. That’s still the official day for Andy turning on the lights on our tree up there.
Here are some pictures taken of it in 2022:
This one was taken with a telephoto lens, from the mesa across from us while we were driving home:
Zoomed:
Do you decorate for Christmas? If so, when do you usually do it?
November 3, 2025
and invented the coffee filter.
This Facebook page tells how she did it.
And this is from Wikipedia:
Melitta Bentz
German entrepreneur and inventor of the coffee filter (1873–1950)
Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz was a German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionizing the process of coffee brewing with her invention of the coffee filter. Her company, Melitta, has long been a significant leader in the coffee industry. Her contributions enhanced coffee preparation methods and influenced coffee culture around the world.
—Wikipedia
I use these all the time,
So it was fun to read about the story behind them.
November 2, 2025
November 1, 2025
What do you think the kids in this picture from local12.com were doing?
They were dropping off candy for a boy in the hospital. He and his mother always gave out treats for Halloween, but she was with him at the hospital and left a note explaining why they would not be giving out candy this year. They didn’t want him to feel left out. Click here for more details.
There is still a lot of goodness in the world.
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025
Actually it wasn’t the first time the phone line needed repair. It happened twice before in the 50 plus years we’ve had it. And like the previous two times we didn’t even see the technician.
When I made the appointment they said they would come between 8 AM and 5 PM, but they would text me in the morning to narrow the time period. Sure enough, at 7:46 AM I received a text saying the technician would be there between 8:25 and 12:25, and they would text me when they were on their way.
At 10:43 a text said they would be there soon, and at 11:27 they said they were done, the line was working again.
How easy was that? Their internet is also reliable, so we’re happy customers. We don’t take good service for granted.
October 30, 2025
Andy seldom phones our landline from up on the land — he usually sends texts or email messages. Fortunately he broke that pattern Monday. He tried phoning our landline twice using his cellphone but got the message,
Sorry, you cannot leave a message for [phone number]….
He told me about it yesterday and I had the same problem when I tried with my cellphone. Then I checked our landline and nothing, no dial tone. So I contacted our provider and they’ll send someone today to see what’s wrong. We’re surprised because we had our long weekly chat Sunday evening with Kaitlin and had no problem at all.
The interesting thing is our internet, which relies on a lot of wires run in my study, works just fine. And our wall phone in our living room, which is connected straight from the wire entering our apartment, doesn’t.
So we’re pretty sure the problem is somewhere outside the apartment. Anyway, bless Andy for trying to phone yesterday, Otherwise it could have been a week — when we tried to phone Kaitlin again — before we knew there was a problem.
October 29, 2025
When I drove back from grocery shopping yesterday, I automatically looked for my favorite parking spots, just in front of the old stairs we used to go down:
Those parking spots were full, but duh! I noticed one was open in front of the stairs we use now. (The picture taken after I parked the car.)
I’m guessing I will drop that old parking habit and start this new one. It’s so much easier lugging groceries up now.
October 28, 2025
