Living Large In Our Little House

I didn’t fully real­ize it at the time, but I lost part of my free­dom last November when I crashed my 1988 Baby Blazer on a slick moun­tain road.

I've always enjoyed dri­ving and the inde­pen­dence it gives me. My mother, mother in law and one of my sis­ters in law have never drove, rely­ing instead on their hus­bands. That's some­thing that would have dri­ven me (!) insane.

Thankfully, I wasn’t hurt in the crash and the motor was not dam­aged, but the exten­sive dam­age to the exte­rior left me with­out wheels.

I didn’t know at the time I would be with­out my own wheels — some­thing I had not expe­ri­enced since I was 16 – for 9 full months.

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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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Molly, giv­ing Dale one of her famous kissies

The tell tale signs were all there: The cough­ing, heav­ing, wheezing.

I tried to ignore them. After hav­ing pets all of my life, I knew deep down that it wasn’t aller­gies or a cold.

Last week, our (approx­i­mately) 8-year-old red Dachshund, Molly, was diag­nosed with an enlarged heart.

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