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Sweet Daisy

Daisy Mertins 11/95 – 3/3/10 I haven’t felt much like posting this week. Our good and beloved dog was laid to rest in our yard yesterday, next to her equally wonderful son Duncan. She was friend to all and will be missed terribly…

rawr!

WOW. Valentine’s day and Lunar New Year are both on Sunday! I think all that lucky red means the tiger year will be a good one… And here you go, a Tibetan proverb: “It is better to have lived one day as a tiger, than a thousand years as a sheep.”

DARN cats!

This one I miss still… Why a drawing of a cat long gone? Because when I tried to use my scanner last night, I discovered a cat had jumped on it, knocked it off my desk and killed it dead. So into my archive I went for a halfway appropriate image to vent my frustration. [...]

I’m off to celebrate!

Busy, busy so me and the reindeer back in ’10. From Life Illustrated, many happy wishes for warm, wonderful holidays!

For Janne in Norway

Well, I feel a little sheepish having repurposed the snow angel idea on Tuesday. But in my defense, this piece was done about 14 years ago for Carus and another admission, I can’t remember which of Carus’ magazines this was for, maybe Cricket? Anyway, if I do a third snow angel, that will make it [...]