Living Large In Our Little House

My week has got­ten away from me and I have a ton of work to fin­ish before the end of the month. I thought you might enjoy con­tem­plat­ing "Zen Doggy," today before tak­ing a browse through my 7 favorite Living Large Links post from Tuesday (read the com­ments too as there were two posts read­ers liked as well!)

I'll be back on Tuesday with more news from Our Little House!

Paging.…Mat.….you need to claim your audio book at fivecoat@​ozarkmountains.​com

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Mat, you’re the win­ner of the audio book, Ozark Mountains Fishing Stories,” by Rolland Love! Please email me at fivecoat@​ozarkmountains.​com with your snail mail address by the end of this week.
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I was tagged by our friend over at Frugal Kiwi in The Seven Links cir­cle going around blogs that began at Tripbase.

Here are my choices for the "Best of" Living Large:

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It’s Summer Book Giveaway Thursday. Read to the end of my post to see how you can enter.

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There are defin­ing moments in everyone’s life.

Graduating from high school and col­lege, get­ting mar­ried, buy­ing your first home (or dream) home, hav­ing your children.

There are the ones that aren’t con­sid­ered good, too. Events we see as fail­ures and the death of the ones we love.

Today marks the 30^th anniver­sary of the first defin­ing moment of my life. My dad sud­denly died of a heart attack at the age of 58. I was 17.

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Mary Nida Smith, you are the win­ner of the book, “A Pug’s Tale.” Thanks to every­one who com­mented, Tweeted and voted in the Petties for my other blog, K9 Chronicles Rescue Me for the Best Cause Related Blog. Remember, you can vote up to 2–3 times per day until July 29!  There will be more book give­aways to come this summer!

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Photo Courtesy of University of Minnesota

When I went to let Molly and Dakota out before dawn one day last week, I knew there was some­thing strange about my three pot­ted tomato plants that sit on the party deck.

As I stood there, keep­ing one eye on the dogs and one eye on the tomato plants, I thought I saw one of them move.

“What the…..”

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