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As some of you may recall, last spring we lost Demi, our sweetheart English mastiff. We waited the traditional year and a day, and yesterday we added a new member of the family. This is Willow:

(click to embiggen the puppeh)


She's a blue heeler, also known as an Australian cattle dog, and is the smartest, most inquisitive, and most energetic thing you could ever hope to meet. (I am half convinced she's actually a squirrel or a fox in a dog suit.) As you can imagine, this little bouncy thing is a big change after our "gentle giant," whose most strenuous exercise was moving (slowly) from the living room to the bedroom and from the bedroom to the living room! But it's good for us, and especially for Mr Psmith whose heart is half dog :)

Our dog turned 11 last week. This is VERY old for an English mastiff! This is how she looked when we reminded her of her birthday:

It's called "snow" and there is a metric s**t ton of it here in my neighborhood:

( post-blizzard conditions )

Oh my god am I ready for spring.

To cheer ourselves up, Mr Psmith and I have been looking at pictures from way back when Freya was a full-of-herself little kitten who took no crap from our giant dogs that outweigh her by a factor of 20-to-1 (she hasn't changed a bit, in case you were wondering):