Alicia Miller
@lundr
Author, Veterans Representative, Mother, Artist, Wife, Borzoi lover, Slava Ukraini! All views expressed are my own.
I am in a great mood today. So are the pups. Pippin has his growth pretty much done. Merry at a little over 4 months is still growing daily. Yes, they are named after Hobbits
Break from politics. Merry highly recommends frozen smoked ham hocks for teething. And yes, that is her toy box behind her.
I like to work with my hands and sculpt. Although I use a Dremel for small stone and gem work, I've been working on an otter for my son in olive wood, pure carving tools. Whittling is a different skill set. Here's a silken wind hound and a penguin with an egg I did for his wife.
New family member. He's taken to the assignment of becoming a barnacle on my husband pretty well.
The sweetest very good boy I've ever had jumped across the rainbow bridge today. He was laying down after a cheesey treat that he pranced for, licked his chest, howled in sudden pain and was gone. 😭
Putting together game room - window got taken out by tornado a few months ago, about 1/3 the way to unboxing again
Sleeping next to me with a fan on him while I work. It's a rough job but some pup has to do it!
Yesterday reminded me of why I love my old house. The AC crapped out. It was in the 90s. My house was in the 70s, because they built for the climate. It's taking a lot of work to get it updated but last month my electric bill was 👇 150 for a 3 story home in MO IN JUNE. New homes are money pits
Sharing a funny. I had surgery and needed to wash with special soap before. Smells just like what my vet uses. Needless to say, my dog was concerned, very borzoi concerned. Then I stayed overnight and he went straight to vigil. Came home and the look my husband got after my wounds were sniffed!
So house got hit by the Saint Louis tornado yesterday. We were very lucky. No power, one window and a damaged roof corner. All those improvements held tight. Neighbors weren't so lucky
I agree. Here's the last shooting. Drug dealer decided some homeless people were good targets. One died. Realize I live less than a quarter mile from million dollar homes
Drug dealer shot up a homeless camp. News didn't bother to show up. Bottom right are police tending to a dying man.
My sons went to the big Island and went to the volcano and laughing prayed and played summoning music... Then enjoyed the sudden hot steam, then thought the red light was nice.... Days later we had a talk, 'What have I told you about summoning Gods!' - This is not a joke, that's a picture.