It’s the Sunday morning of Thanksgiving weekend. Kemba has just gotten me up, as usual, with his polite but insistent mewling — at 6AM. As those of you who know the Beagle Man are well aware, this is not my time of day. Not by a long shot. It is, however, Kemba’s. By 6:20 we’re […]
The three young men pictured below, all brothers, were victims of severe face-lickings over the Thanksgiving weekend. Kemba the Toller, an animal of interest, has been brought in for questioning. Please send any information that might be helpful to the Comments section of this blog. Thank you. […]
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This might be better than the $27.99 elk antler. Heather the Trainer had told me about “Puppy Social,” a drop-in, pay-as-you-go ($10 for the 45-minute session) supervised play group at Paws ‘N Effect in Hamden. I pride myself on knowing CT geography from my days of following the boys all over the state for their […]
Wow — four weeks Kemba had been living in Westport as of last Saturday, and I hadn’t yet taken him on a single major road trip! (Not counting his original epic drive from Nova Scotia down to CT, that is.) Had to do something about that, so last weekend Beagle Man and the Missus loaded […]
My L.A. friend Ilene — we grew up together in Teaneck, NJ — calls me “Wanderlust Dude.” She’s amazed that every year, within 48 hours after returning from my cross-country road trip, I’ve driven to Montauk, or Vermont, or someplace else that takes a car to get to — after having spent the previous four […]
I’ve been thinking about Sa-Jack, my roommate back in my fraternity days, because later this week is my birthday — and two days later, his. Sa-Jack, these days, looks like Jon Stewart, and like Jon Stewart, he’s a pretty funny guy. Always was. One of his best routines, back in the day, was his riff […]
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This is incredible! I’ve lost 4.6 pounds — I swear! — since bringing Kemba home with me last Saturday! That’s even more impressive than the results of my inaugural LA/XC Diet™ back in 2011, when I dropped 5 pounds (because I often skipped meals to make my 500 miles a day), but that was over […]
* * * COUNTDOWN: 169 DAYS TO LA/XC-4 * * * Jk about starting the countdown already. I mean, I won’t even have a dog yet for another two weeks. But as I’ve learned from LA/XC-1, -2, and -3, it’s never too early to begin planning. And part of the prep, of course, means getting […]
On our way up to Vermont Thursday night (Yes, Beagle Man fans — MTK season is over; VT season has begun ), I told Carol that since Friday was supposed to be a gorgeous, sunny fall day, and I’d heard foliage was the best in years, I was going to hike up Bromley Mountain. “And,” […]
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Five days after returning from my Halifax pick-the-puppy tour, I got this comment on my blog from Meg, a close friend of Carol’s since high school: Hank: I’m on a ferry from PEI to Nova Scotia and talking to a couple with a toller… great dog….showed […]
