I’ve gone a relatively long time without cavities or grey hair. Sadly my long reigning glory of going without dental work came to an abrupt end this week the exact same time I spotted four ugly, wiry, nasty looking grey hairs on my head. The physical pain of an aching tooth (okay what I really [...]
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Grey hair: Does it stay or does it go?
Posted: March 8, 2009 by condofire in Where's my gonch & other stuffTags: go grey or dye, middle age, middle age dealing with grey hair, women and aging
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Bali Restaurant in Scheveningen, Holland – Sprawling History 1
Posted: August 14, 2007 by condofire in UncategorizedTessa: There used to be an Indonesian restaurant in Scheveningen, Holland called Bali. The restaurant looked like an old house that had been renovated. As a child my family used to travel to Holland frequently to visit and this was one restaurant we would always go to. First we would pick up my grandmother, Nenny, [...]
Tessa: My mom just left after visiting for two weeks from Port Credit, a small town just outside Toronto that lies on the southern end of Lake Ontario where I grew up. My mom is interesting for a number of reasons, most of them too complicated to get into but one of the things that [...]
Tessa: The other day I was at Canada West Veterinary Specialists for Reuben’s check-up. As we got close to the hospital Reuben got really excited as if he were going on a big hike instead of to the doctors. He ran out of the car and into the reception area where he was greeted by [...]
Tessa and Dave: There’s that saying that it takes a village to raise a child. A parallel saying is that it takes a village to save a dog. In our case it couldn’t be more true. Whenever weird freaky things happen like your dog eats a bunch of wood and comes close to death, you [...]
Dog Survives 4 Surgeries for Foreign Body Removal and Lives to Bark About It
Posted: July 18, 2007 by condofire in UncategorizedDave &Tessa:Wow, just when most of you were thinking that we didn’t have too many happy things to report we’re happy to say that Reuben can come home today. He’s skinny, he’s got lots of bald patches from surgery and needles, he’s a little greyer (so are we) but he’s coming home. LET’S DANCE! After [...]
Things I love about Reub
Posted: July 11, 2007 by condofire in UncategorizedTags: dog as best friend, things I love about my dog
His gorilla head. His ridiculously long legs. The whites of his eyes and how they look like diamonds when he looks at me a certain way. How even though he has slept on the bed for 51/2 years he never just jumps up. He waits and waits and stares and stares until we invite him [...]
A story about Reub.
Posted: July 6, 2007 by condofire in UncategorizedTags: dog as best friend, dog lover
Tessa: When I met our dog Reuben 51/2 years ago he was 10 weeks old. For the first week I had him I felt shock at the awesome responsibility I had undertaken and wondered if I should take him back. Every moment we spent together I realized how much he was in his own invincible [...]
Dave: This is our little hero that is struggling through each and every hour right now. He’s such an awesome dog…. he’s in so much pain but doesn’t complain about anything. After six days without food, he’s just started to eat small bits from my hand . picture-002.jpg Share this: Email Facebook Digg StumbleUpon
Tessa: On Wednesday Dave and I brought Reub to the vet to find out what was wrong with our fella. Sad, droopy, drooling, barely able to walk, not having eaten in two days and trying to drown his sorrows in the tall grass outside of our house, we were understandably very concerned. So we go [...]
