Living Large In Our Little House

Correna and CeeCee Marie

Some of you have emailed me to ask what we do with the Fearsome Four when we go out of town?

Well, since we have res­cues that have var­i­ous fears, we don’t like putting them in a stress­ful ken­nel situation.

We have a great pet nanny and house sit­ter who comes to Our Little House for the dura­tion of our trip.

Correna has become a very trusted and valu­able mem­ber of Our Little House community.

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My friend and blog­ging col­league, Roxanne Hawn, declared today Dog Food Action Day,  a day to pur­chase a bag of dog food (or any pet food) and take it to your local food pantry, ani­mal shel­ter or res­cue to give to a needy fam­ily for their pets.

I'm chal­len­ing my Living Large read­ers, Tweeps and other social media friends to read a story on my Rescue Me blog about how a dona­tion of dog food made a huge dif­fer­ence for one man and his 3 dogs.  I'm hop­ing I can gather 10 com­mit­ments to retweet, repost and pass the word about the campaign!

We found we have more in com­mon than our ancestry

Last week­end, we had guests at The Little House and it was awesome.

Mike’s mother, my Aunt Grace, was my mother’s best friend. His par­ents were also my Godparents, an honor in the Lutheran Church that is more than just symbolic.

We lived on the same block of post WWII bun­ga­lows and our dads worked for the same rail­road. While the neigh­bor­hood was gen­er­ally tight-knit, our fam­i­lies were even more so, vaca­tion­ing and cel­e­brat­ing mile­stones with each other.

I even learned this week­end that our fathers hand-dug the base­ment together that cre­ated the addi­tion to their lit­tle house.

After my mater­nal grand­mother died when I was a baby, Mike’s Grandma Quinn became my grandma too. And there were the cof­fee klatches, Mom and Aunt Grace could sit smok­ing cig­a­rettes, drink­ing cof­fee and talk­ing all day (Mom often recounted this is where they learned President Kennedy was shot).

Mike is four years older than me and we were both mid-life babies. Truth be known, his birth was prob­a­bly the inspi­ra­tion my mother needed to have another child when her older three chil­dren were almost raised.

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I will be on the radio today, talk­ing green with "The King." You can catch it at 12:30 CST on KCXL 1140AM/1160AM KCTO in Kansas City or you can catch it on the web.