Snoopy and Bonnie Summer Cuts
Category Archives: Pets
Vallejo Pride Picnic
Beaches and Mountains of Santa Barbara
We weren’t planning to drive through the Santa Ynez Mountains, but there was a detour on the way back, so we made sure to check out a few of the vistas that we had never seen before on the way home.
Cathedral City Life-Work Balance Week
We worked from the Palm Springs area this week and I got to have lunch with a dear old friend, Jim Fagelson, who was on the Board of a gay parenting organization with me in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s. It is now called Family Equality!
110 Degrees in Palm Springs
These pictures are actually in Cathedral City, by the Palm Springs border.
Today was apparently the first really hot day of the year here. At 110 degrees Fahrenheit, the dogs did not go outside much during the day, of course. We had a lovely warm evening outside to make sure they remained comfortable.
Carquinez Summit
For the first time I hiked ALL the way up the hill to the point in the Glen Cove neighborhood of Vallejo where pme cam look down on the Carquinez Bridge and back at the toll plaza with Napa, Sonoma and Marin counties in one direction and Contra Costa in the other. Snoopy and Bonnie kept up incredibly well while tethered to each other on the tandem leash.
This picture was from a separate hike we took four days later:
Memorial Day Weekend 2024
Lots of pool time and a wonderful, relaxing, and intellectually stimulating Memorial Day Weekend. Greg is our woofy pool boy and co-pool owner with his husband Steve, dear friends of many years, and relatively new neighbors. The dogs always tag along, which is a wonderful way to spend the day. They are getting used to being poolside and enjoying another backyard while we get some serious time in the pool relaxing with great food and friends. Let the summer begin!
Dogs May 2024
Get a room already!
Nudging
Somebody is afraid I’m going out for errands without her in a little while.
Maintaining Dogs
Snoopy and Bonnie freshly bathed. Nails clipped. Fur from the bottom of feet trimmed. Hair brushed. There was pretty extensive grooming of Bonnie, who has a very different hair texture. Ears are much shorter today for a fresh start, but they’ll grow back. Obviously, with her vision impairment, I try to keep her eyes as unobstructed as possible by maintaining it more than with most dogs I groom. Snoopy is very easy to maintain with his tuxedo coloring exposing his brown highlight undercoat.
Forgive the use of my baby voice in this video to go with this morning’s pictures, but look what a ham Bonnie is in particular. It’s like she knows she was posing for a portrait.
More family portraits from today:
