Comments on: The Dog-Friendly Christmas Makeover

By: Lauranne

Lauranne — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:58:54 +0000

Sounds lovely! I so missed having BD over Christmas.

By: Jobi and Fisher

Jobi and Fisher — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:51:07 +0000

I love this post! I have a feeling you have more fun than anyone in your “new” small town. I am still laughing…and applauding.

By: Kristen–well minded

Kristen–well minded — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:10:11 +0000

Sounds lovely! Merry Christmas!

By: jan

jan — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:01:06 +0000

Philadelphia? Isn’t that the city that booed Santa Claus at an Eagles game one year?

By: Miss Jan

Miss Jan — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:16:30 +0000

I moved from Seattle to a small Oregon town exactly 20 years ago (19 years, 364 days and 23 hours too darn long). I get so homesick for big city Christmases that I go online and yearn over the photos of downtown Seattle at Christmas from the Westlake Plaza carousel to the magnificent department store windows to the parade of the Christmas ships and of course Candy Cane Lane. But the most homesickness is reserved for the (mostly free) music in so many venues from office building lobbies to a quiet hour spent listinging to Christmas hymns by chorus, or as you mention, by organ – in this case the Flentrop pipe organ in one of the Seattle episcopal churches). I don’t live in a very good area of Oregon and what you would hope for in terms of small town community activities just doesn’t happen much here so I have found over the past two decades I do progressively less in the way of “celebration” (at least I don’t max out my credit cards buying Christmas gifts anymore – too long of a drive to get to good shopping and remote rural delivery from online purchases is often really sketchy). I guess everyone just loves what they grew up with and I grew up in a bustling metro area and that environment just means Christmas to me!

By: Nikki

Nikki — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:55:44 +0000

We do have a dog guest with us this Christmas. His name is Joey, and he is making it very interesting. He is attached to the back of my legs. Everywhere I go, there he is. This morning, I stood there in my bathroom and Joey sat there staring up at me in the middle of the bath mat. I turned on the bath water. You’d think he’d turn tail and run, right? No. He just laid down and I could not close the door to get cleaned up for work? He obstructs my every move. While on the surface it exasperates me, since it is not a part of my routine… I love him for wanting to be with me all the time. Somebody actually wants to be glued to me. What an awesome feeling.

By: Jackie Bouchard

Jackie Bouchard — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:26:06 +0000

We have some poochy howliday traiditons – the main one being that we paint a pup- themed Christmas parody on my sister’s windows. (This year it was Fleas Navidad.)

Looking for shops that sell glass pipes…too funny. Merry Christmas!

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:24:29 +0000

We had big plans to get out and see all of the holiday happenings in Portland this year, but then we got a puppy!! Ginny is a lucky girl to have such a wonderful family to spend the holidays with!! Hope yours is very merry 🙂

By: emma

emma — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:00:57 +0000

We’ve never been in a big city for Christmas, we are more suburban types, except in Germany it was more of a small town. Most years we get to go to my cousin Lena’s house for Christmas Day. Christmas Even we get to open some presents, but Christmas is pretty low key.

By: Sand Spring Chesapeakes

Sand Spring Chesapeakes — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:39:53 +0000

So nice of you to foster Ginny, may you have a blessed Christmas!