WHAT TINA’S TALES ARE: TINA’S TALES are short stories about our Terrier rescue mix. In addition, I’ll be pleasuring you with stories about other great dogs, or even other fur babies of different species. God has designed so many beautiful ones! Friends, people have a great ability to love and are therefore always enamored by beauty! And dogs are beautiful! They definitely have a purpose which God has given them: some hunt, some protect, some only and always provide unfaltering…..

Read more

  FUR BABY HERBIE:   TODAY I TOSSED OUT pretzel sticks and Lay’s Classic Potato Chips. My fur baby, Herbie, heard the door open and decided how close he could come to me… I promised Duane long ago I won’t hold or pet our outside fur babies: sometimes, I think when they hear the door open, they might run in! They wouldn’t like that and I don’t want that. I love our relationship now: loving them from afar, loving them…..

Read more

Tina (remember: she’s our puppy) tells me there ARE stupid questions! I already knew there were: like the fully grown woman who asked, “Why can’t God get married?”  I mean, I was so shocked she was serious! I kept asking her over and over again if she was…  Eventually she became angry with my shock! Duh!! Tina says, and rightfully so, when Daddy asks her, “Do you want to go for a walk?” – that’s a stupid question! I rest…..

Read more

ONCE UPON A TIME I was never afraid of dogs… This once upon a time was when I was a grade-schooler, before I ever encountered a seemingly ferocious dog; before I ever encountered a genuinely ferocious dog. I was born in 1956. In the 1960’s as a child and in the 1970’s as a teenager I did not experience many things that our young people experience much sooner at this age than I did. You see, when I was a…..

Read more

WHAT TINA’S TALES ARE: TINA’S TALES are short stories specifically about our Terrier rescue mix, In addition, I’ll be pleasuring you with stories about other great dogs, or even other fur babies of different species. God has designed so many beautiful ones! Friends, people with a great ability to love always are enamored by beauty! And dogs are beautiful! They always have a purpose which God has given them: some hunt, some protect, some only and always provide unfaltering companionship!…..

Read more

WHAT TINA’S TALES ARE: TINA’S TALES are short stories specifically about our Terrier rescue mix, In addition, I’ll be pleasuring you with stories about other great dogs, or even other fur babies of different species. God has designed so many beautiful ones! Friends, people with a great ability to love always are enamored by beauty! And dogs are beautiful! They always have a purpose which God has given them: some hunt, some protect, some only and always provide unfaltering companionship!…..

Read more

  WHAT TINA’S TALES ARE: TINA’S TALES are short stories specifically about our Terrier rescue mix, In addition, I’ll be pleasuring you with stories about other great dogs, or even other fur babies of different species. God has designed so many beautiful ones! Friends, people with a great ability to love always are enamored by beauty! And dogs are beautiful! They always have a purpose which God has given them: some hunt, some protect, some only and always provide unfaltering…..

Read more

  TINA’S TALES     WHAT TINA’S TALES ARE: TINA’S TALES are short stories specifically about our Terrier rescue mix, In addition, I’ll be pleasuring you with stories about other great dogs, or even other fur babies of different species. God has designed so many beautiful ones! Friends, people with a great ability to love always are enamored by beauty! And dogs are beautiful! They always have a purpose which God has given them: some hunt, some protect, some only…..

Read more

This morning (Tuesday, July 25, 2023) Duane and I were having my favorite breakfast: a bagel from St. Paul Bagelry and coffee from our most preferred Caribou shop… I call it our ‘cuddle bagel breakfast’ because Tina can be on my lap (or Pewter, usually it’s Tina in the morning) and cuddle while we watch a half an hour sitcom, enjoy our food and drink, and then start our workday. Today, in addition to the sitcom, I was highly entertained!…..

Read more

PEWTER’S PAUSE is a reflective moment on the beauty of just one of God’s wonderous creations: cats! The title is in honor of my own Russian Blue who has been rescued, revived, and cherished as God wants all cats to be! Selah.         THIS KITTY STORY IS ABOUT BAILEY… Bailey was a male Lilac Himalayan, completely gorgeous: and I didn’t want him. It’s understandable. At that time in my life my three children were small; we had…..

Read more