the blog

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souvenirs to cherish for always

Welcome to the blog! 

posts as far back as 2009

I hope you enjoy perusing stories and images from the last several years. It is well saturated with animal and travel photos. The blog was a passion of mine for quite some time but in 2016 I took a break. Glad to finally be back!

moa … not the mall but the dog

Last weekend we had the amazing fortune to spend a long night {and breakfast} with Mur’s great friend from high school, a friend of mine from my Survivor days 🙂 and his amazing wife who I can’t...

big news…

so I’m not a big person to gush and share too many personal details with many people but this seems like something I should probably share … this is my beautiful new ring. a lot of people might say...

basket-o-kittens

  I lucked out a week or so ago and got to play with a litter of 6 of the fuzziest, orangest, cutest kittens ever. It was amazing! They were a little skeptical at first about being out of the...

olivia and lilah!!

After a lot of weather and schedule trouble, Olivia and I finally were able to get together this week. And whoa, it was amazing! 🙂 Lilah is a Pit Bull/Lab Mix with possibly something else thrown in...

the littlest tiger

So much more to come from my weekend in Iowa but first, a photo of the littlest tiger I’ve ever gotten to play with … almost too cute for words 🙂 To my delight, there was a litter of 4 teeny-tiny...

summer kitties

     Boy oh boy, did it get steamy today. The girls and I are stowed away in the bedroom with the AC, some Netflix and a ton of cat toys. It’s funny to see a cat chase a ball quite...

zeus + sigmund … best friends

When Angela contacted me a few weeks back and told me about Zeus and Sigmund and how they were cat and dog but best friends, I got super excited. As you’ve no doubt been able to tell, I’m a cat...

a golden beauty named Shelby

Last weekend I had the amazing fortune to meet a fantastic woman named Susan and her beautiful, beautiful dog, Shelby. I was at their home for just a few hours but even from that, I learned {and...

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