This encore post is from June 6, 2010. *** Deets is just as dismayed about this heat wave as the rest of us.

Seems like we all enjoyed seeing Deets in last Saturday's encore post, so here's another one featuring him, from June 2010. *** ...

The hard part about being on vacation is not being in the company of my animals. One must seek out suitable substitutes whenever an ...

Snapper: Why aren't you outside? It's 6 o'clock. Aren't you supposed to be walking Smooch  or scooping poop or doing so...

Yesterday, for the sixth time in my life, I had to make "the decision." You know, the one where you have to play God; the choice...

The temperature outside and in has warmed up a tiny bit in the last few weeks. Daffodil no longer spends every minute of the day under th...

My problem originated last Sunday morning. The battery in the smoke detector near my office started chirping its "I'm-dead-change-m...

There are some weeks when I have to work too damned hard. This is one of them. Countdown to retirement: 12 years, 1 month, 25 days or ...

I keep telling myself Daffodil will emerge from her favorite spot before she overcooks.  I hope I'm right. Some just like it hot. ...

Back in the days when I had a real job, there was no internet or e-mail, cell phones didn't exist, and – most significantly – a carry...

I take too darned many pictures. Seriously. My new year's resolution is to take fewer – but better – pictures. In the olden day...

Enough about the porcupines. Let's switch the programming to something more pleasant –  like the pronghorns who occasionally populat...