It was really too cold outside (2℉) to pose for photographs, so I brought Ashley inside before taking a picture.
Then, after taking her jacket off, I fixed myself a hot cocoa.
But no hot cocoa for the doggo. Poor thing.
2025-01-20 09:04
Category: Photography
2025-01-13 16:03
For the first time ever, actually took the time to properly caramelize the onions, meaning that this batch of French onion soup was a real success.
2025-01-05 14:53
Roxie and Ashley romping in the snow, at the dog park. 🐕
2024-12-28 08:29
Ashley has found her place in the sun. 🐕
A walkable dog 🐕🦺
Jackie walked Ashley successfully for a couple of days right after we brought her home from the shelter, but then we had a couple of incidents where the dog pulled her over, or yanked the leash out of her hand, and we realized that it wasn’t safe for Jackie to be the dog walker.
Over the past couple of years though, Ashley has gradually become more tractable, and today we decided to experiment once again with Jackie being the dog walker.
It worked great! Ashley pulled some, but I don’t think Jackie was ever in danger of being pulled over, or of losing the leash.
We were thinking of it especially because tomorrow I’m going to spend close to 10 hours at an all-day sword fighting workshop organized by my local club TMHF, which is bringing in three well-known HEMA instructors to teach classes. There’s a group lunch, but I’m going to have to miss it to dash home and walk the dog. But since this outing went so well, hopefully next time there’s something like this, Jackie will be able to do the dog walking. It’s also a useful backup, just in case I’m sick or injured, to have Jackie able to do what’s necessary.
2024-12-01 20:44
During today’s longsword and rapier class with my HEMA group, Tempered Mettle Historical Fencing, we noticed that a banner had gotten crooked, and took a break to adjust it.
2024-12-01 20:06
I took this image to document the scar from Ashley getting nipped on the nose by a neighbor dog, but it was such a handsome picture, I figured there was no point on dwelling on the scar. #dogsofmastodon
2024-11-29 15:41
First hot cocoa of the season. (And well-deserved. It’s cold outside, and not so terribly warm inside.)
2024-11-03 11:23
Ashley caught the vole living by our front door yet again. This time the vole did not survive.
The picture below is of a dead vole. Sorry not to be able to hide it behind a content warning. Just move along if you don’t want to see it.
2024-11-01 14:45
Ashley caught a vole! I wouldn’t let her eat it, because who knows what parasites she’d get from eating a raw wild animal, but she took it very well when I made her drop the vole.
It seemed to have survived being in Ashley’s mouth for several seconds. So Ashley will get to try to catch it again!
