Richard Crowe's Blog – July 2012 Archive (3)

Giselle is a young Maltese who has had a hard life.  She was tied in a yard by her first owners and the cord she was tied with became embedded in her neck.  Then she was placed in a shelter where she was attacked by bigger aggressive dogs.  The poor girl was petrified of people when we got her and was also totally scared of other dogs.

Enter Holly... …

Holly is four and a half years old and we have had her with us since she was seven and a half weeks old.  She has never counter surfed until this Fourth of July when I left a brisket close to the edge of the kitchen counter.  Judy had given Holly a taste of the roast and that was too tempting.   I guess the saying "Where's the beef?" goes for Holly as well as the little lady on the old commercials for Wendy's

Holly retrieved it and shared part of it with her Maltese friends. …

When I think about Independence Day, I always think about my ancestors who were brave enough AND SMART ENOUGH to leave their homes in the old word and venture to our wonderful country...

Of course, some of my ancestors did not come to the United States.  They came to the colonies of Virginia and Pennsylvania as well as from Ireland to the State of Tejas and Coahilla which was then part of Mexico and which, after they spilled some of their blood in the cause of independence,…