Jef found Lucy and Nori huddled together in the living room last night, very intent on a tiny object on the carpet. They’d found a baby lizard and apparently already played with it to death. Jef threw the poor thing outside and came to tell me about it.
K: Awwww. Poor little thing. Wash [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home · Lucy Bella · Nori

I think the season might be over for my beloved creek. Two weeks ago there were pools of cool, rushing water, and yesterday it was nearly all dried up. If we don’t get any rain, it’ll be a dry bed and maybe some mud by this weekend. I like the creek for two reasons, it [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Lucy Bella · Nature-ish

I was driving home a little bit ago and I saw a fox in my neighborhood! A FOX! Just hanging out on somebody’s lawn. I saw some posters recently about a pair of foxes roaming around, and to be extra mindful of small pets, but I didn’t think anything of it. [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home · Lucy Bella · Slinky

Lucy is doing really well with Nori. We keep telling her to stay calm, and even when we aren’t there with her, she’s still being gentle. She mostly keeps her distance and just watches Nori, sometimes she looks at us and whines. “What is this thing? Why is it doing that?” [...]

Categories: Lucy Bella · Nori · Shutterbuggin'

My friend, Zach, is out of town this weekend, so invited his dogs, Jack and Maggie over for a “pee-wee play day.” He warned me they weren’t those kinds of dogs, but they were so cute and wound-up when I went to let them out, I couldn’t resist. They didn’t *love* Lucy, [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home · Lucy Bella · Shutterbuggin'

Categories: Lucy Bella

Happy Anniversary, my Lucy Bella. One year ago, you were a dirty, scruffy, mangy little puppy in a small town shelter. I saw your picture on Petfinder and knew that you were mine. The post was for a Border Collie / Boston Terrier mix and I laughed out loud. I see where they could think [...]

Categories: Lucy Bella

There’s a cool little watering hole in the Bull Creek Watershed in North Austin that my friend Mary introduced me to. I’ve heard that not all parts of Bull Creek are very nice, but this spot (360 N and Spicewood Springs) is a total gem. There were flat rocks for laying out, shallow [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Friend-ish · Lucy Bella