This is Star. She was just about to head out on the dog-show circuit with a professional handler when her owners noticed a small spot of hair loss on her lip. She surely looks great otherwise and really ready for the show ring. Unfortunately, those folks are really competitive and there is no point sending […]
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At the Kiwanis meeting on Wednesday, our treasurer announced that the club had received a bill for safety-deposit box rental from Kennett National Bank. This was the first billing she had received for the box. She was not aware that we even had such a box and wondered what was in it. It developed that […]
This is the "before" picture I took today. I have high hopes that I’ll be showing you some much nicer "after" pictures in the coming weeks. "Lucky" is a stray dog who showed up about six weeks ago. The extremely nice man who adopted him tells me that he actually looks a little better after […]
There is a small balcony overlooking the sanctuary in the First Presbyterian Church. Tradition holds that it was built (a hundred years ago) to seat the hired help who came to worship with (though not seated with) the rest of the congregation. One ascends to this lofty, if somewhat cramped, perch by a narrow, spiral […]
About thirty years ago, Viretta Sexton became the choir director at the First Presbyterian Church in Kennett. She is a hugely talented musician and choral director. At that time, her only outlet for that talent and energy was the church choir, and the Christmas Eve musical services were big productions. The choir began working months […]
I got the call at 7:00 AM Saturday. "I’ve been up all night with Fluffy. She’s been vomiting and had a lot of fluid from the other end." With vomiting, I assumed she meant the dog had diarrhea. Fluffy arrived wearing a diaper. "How many times did she have diarrhea?" "I don’t think it’s coming […]
I started to put this under "Strange Beliefs". People think that veterinarians know everything. Somewhere between the Encyclopedia Britannica and Google, the veterinarian was(is) the resource to rely on. I’ve been called at night by a person wanting to know if polar bears eat penguins or fish (polar bears=North pole, penguins=South pole — trick question; […]
Normally, we stay open late on Tuesdays, scheduling until 7:00 PM. The sad fact today is that many families have both parents (if they even have two parents) working full-time. Saturday morning hours and evening hours once per week make life easier for those folks (though a bit harder for me). I thought I could […]
You know that old saying, "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place"? We tend to think that when something unusually bad happens that we ought to be safe from that particular disaster for some time into the future. You know: there’s a bad airline crash and you’re supposed to fly out the next day. […]
"A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul, and a sick one is a prison." … Francis Bacon After battling cancer for a year and a half, my mother has been released from the prison of her decimated body. She was a great reader, and a seeker after truth. She was far ahead […]