Sue (Clwyd Bob x McCloskey’s Nel) is what a working dog should be: gritty, instinctive, tough and intense. She is a throwback to the sheepdogs of old, before they became wiry trial competitors.

The 10 Nel x Blu pups made it to five weeks today. They appear healthy. They are certainly eating a lot. The pups are yearning for more space, but need to spend another week in the warm puppy room before going out to the cold. It’s tricky having pups at this time of year. Cold is their enemy.

Trump’s excesses wear us down, in their outrageousness and number. We lose the ability to be shocked …but we shouldn’t. I am sickened by this post from Thanksgiving 2025. It should make our holiday turkey churn in our stomachs. Anyone who understands America should be shocked.

Donald Trump is beyond disgraceful. He is the embodiment of everything America should not stand for. Trump and his hoodlums are poisonous, toxic to a nation founded on equality where everyone (native or foreign born) may enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Futurist, scientist, science fiction writer, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, recorded this in 1964 for the BBC, a vision of the possible city of the future enabled by communication.

And he lived long enough to see it mostly come true!

There is a bowl of food in the middle of those 10 4-week-old puppies. When I put the food down, there is a surge. Some of them actually get into the dish.

At some point, things start to clear out and everyone, even the smallest, gets a chance to eat.

What is a happening in the Maine woods, home to Rachel Carson, is happening all over the United States.

The perp is not surprising, at all. It is the age we live in.

Woody Guthrie sang about it:

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, said, “Private Property”
But on the back side, it didn’t say nothing
This land was made for you and me

So did Mavin Gaye in his classic, The Ecology.

Oh mercy, mercy me
Ah things ain’t what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land?
How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Question: What eats 10 cups of kibble, 16 jumbo eggs and 1.5 kg of turkey a day?

Answer: A nursing female feeding 10 3-week-old pups.

The leaves have gone but the skies are bright in late October.

Before turning blue-grey in November

I continue to be shocked by the depth and breadth of the fear of and submission to this president, not just here in the USA, but around the world. He is a narcissistic, impulsive bully.

Offering the would-be ‘king’ a crown is an act of pure sycophancy so transparent as to be risible …except that the act of ingratiation only urges the bully on.

..and is THIS any surprise?

Every day the absurdity of the headlines gets more numbing …but of course, that is the intention.

Bernadette Cochrane chose to feature my Lotti along with luminaries Clwyd Bob and Hendre Sam on her marketing material. Lotti is front and center.