Memories of a Brown Dog 2007-2021

It was with much sadness that we said goodbye to the Brown Dog.

A quick moving cancer took her from being her delightful brown dog self to a mere shadow. Her personality, “don’t look at me while I am eating” was true to the end and when she was ready, she told us it was time to go, January 11, 2021.

Arriving as a pup on October 16, 2008, She-Ra consented to keeping the two upstarts. Our veterinarian, Dr. Ruff, said the dogs were about a year old. When asked what were their names we said “Brown Dog and Yellow Dog”. That is how we had been calling them while we decided if they would stay. After a month, they knew their names and so they were, the Brown Dog and the Yellow Dog.

Through adventures of snake bites, gopher tortoise escapades, controlled burns of forest management, gardening, snow, hurricanes, boat rides, and river adventures, Brown Dog lived a full and wonderful life.

Brown Dog is survived by her pack that includes her littermate Yellow Dog, acolytes Nellie and HoneyBun and her humans and predeceased by her mentor She-Ra.

I’m hiding. Can you see me?
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It’s cool in the water in summer
She-Ra, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog
After a wallow in the pond
Garden helpers
I’ve got a snake, how about you?
A favorite view
She-Ra with her acolytes in the dirt pit
Look, I’m in the culvert
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Brown Dog says I’m going this way
Dogs in Sun
Brown Dog
Don’t look, I’m taking a bath
Boat ride in the swamp
In the swamp 2020
At the pond and at attention. Are there snakes?
She-Ra shows off her pets
dog ends
Yes, she’s a lap dog
A ride around the pond
All good dogs face forward
Good thing we have warm coats for snow
Look, I found the boat
On a log in the swamp
Culvert Delivery to the beaver dam
Brown dog on the prow with Grace and Harry
First Snake Bite. We don’t feel well. It was a moccasin nest.
I wonder if there is anything in this hole.
Brown Dog
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A bath
Garden mud wallow
Puppies
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Relaxing on the prow
Can this be comfortable Brown Dog?
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Brown Dog 2008-10-16 Arrival day
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Brown Dog in Snow
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We decided to let them stay
Garden sprinkle
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Brown Dog in the Swamp 2020

Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, Mars 2020-12-18

Surprisingly clear shortly after dark, with only a phone: three planets and a moon.

[Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars]
Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars

The famous alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, off the starboard bow of Earth’s moon.

[Planets in a row]
Planets in a row

And, towards the east and way up, the red planet, framed in longleaf pine trees.

[Barsoom]
Barsoom

-jsq

Cornbread 2020-12-15

Note to self: oven timer is merely advisory; does not turn off oven.

[Ingredients, Oven, Baked Cornbread]
Ingredients, Oven, Baked Cornbread

Gretchen didn’t mention that in the recipe she gave me. Here are the cornbread ingredients, including our own Okra Paradise Farms blue corn flour. Continue reading →

Why my laptop kept overheating 2020-12-03

Mystery solved.

[Fan covered in dust]
Fan covered in dust

Fortunately, Gretchen had some compressed air.

The dogs wondered what I was doing creating a dust storm on the porch.

Also I swapped the laptop’s memory for twice as much, and now it doesn’t hang several times a day like before, even with google-earth-pro, facebook, google drive, wordpress, and about forty other things in tabs.

-jsq