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2007 Scotland
2004 Spain
1996 Ireland
1992 Maui
1990 Portugal
1989 England
1983 France
1980 Big Bend 1979 Cozumel

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HISTORY | DOGS | HOME | FOOD | GARDEN

The collected miscellany of 28 years at the Pommel House and nine years of Pommelhouse.com.

  • History: first-hand written accounts of 19th century life, faithfully transcribed, plus old letters and photographs
  • Dogs: all manner of dog foolishness, dog biographies, and dog show stories;
  • Food: favorite dishes and recipes
  • Garden: slideshows, projects and bird lists

Plus travel logs and fiction long and short.

Novels

The Made-up Man won Best Mystery in the 2012 Houston Writer's Guild Genre Contest. The link takes you to Authonomy (a website run by HarperCollins Publishers), where you can read about half of the book online. You can read without registering, but registration is free, and if you register, you can comment on the book or review it, rate it -- six stars! : ) -- and back it. Contact me if you want to read the whole book.

      

tai chi jacket

 

2012:
BROWN SASH
Breathing the 108
Ten Important Points

The notebook compiles everything required for a black sash:
Main Notebook Page.


Chicken Update

We've applied for the 2012 Funky Chicken Coop Tour. Also, one of our hens has turned out to be a rooster. We don't mind -- he's a rock star.

Rooster

Is he handsome, or what?

The Year of the NIGHT ANIMALS

I never knew how much wildness Wily kept at bay until she retired to the deck and watched the Night Animals reclaim the back yard.


Katie

VISITS WITH KATIE

In memory of my good friend Katie Gray, and of many a long evening whiled away, when I was young and lived in a rented house on Caswell Avenue, in the Austin of the nineteen seventies. What I’d give to sit out on the porch with you again, Katie!


Weegie's Excellent
DOG SHOW ADVENTURE

After Wily's Brilliant Career in competitive obedience, we had the notion to buy a show quality American Eskimo puppy and try for a breed championship. It took us two years, and we traveled from Lake Charles to Denton to San Antonio to Dallas and back again. We made fools of ourselves more than once, but in the end, we did what we set out to do: we put that "CH" in front of her registered name.


More:

Painting   The New Rose Garden - After four months of hauling rock and dirt, we have 50 new roses.
     
Painting   Watercolors - A very small gallery of recent paintings in a new (to me) medium.
     
Trials   Sheepdog Trials - In a field just outside the Village of Fort Augustus, we watched a local trial.
     
River Orr   James Orr's Scotland - In the lowlands of Dumfries and Galloway, I did a bit of sleuthing...
     

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Books & Writing

From the Attic:
A Glass of Water
Brown Chow
Dark Adventures
Fire and Water
How We Travel
Lucky Annie
Mrs. Hipple
Maggie
Merrymakers
Miller's Kalendar
Murder in the Bamboo Forest
Old Dogs
Old Letters
Pine Point
Pooch
Shore Street
Winter Storm
Winter Work

SMITH COLLEGE PAGES:
The Good Old Days
Life in Dewey House
2005 Smith College Reunion
2004 Pre-Union in Vermont
25th Reunion (1995)
Smith College Campus
Preunion at Christmas Cove

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