My son grew up with B.B., Bismarck and Butch so he also is partial to shepherds. He has had other dogs, but always a shepherd. My son and his wife had three dogs for many years. Eventually the dogs got older and were replaced by another dog. Lucy came to live with...

When B.B. and Bismarck died we had moved to a farm. It was thirty seven acres of woods and pasture with a two hundred year old stone farmhouse. We loved the place! I taught third grade while we lived there. Our children each had a horse. We also had three cows and...

Bismarck was one of B.B.’s pups. Actually, we almost lost him also, but my sister-in-law resuscitated him and saved him. We sold all the pups, but it turned out that Bismarck’s new parents couldn’t keep him because of a change of circumstances. After he was returned...

This love affair with B.B. lasted for thirteen years. She was the best dog!  She loved all of us and we all loved her. She was sooo intelligent!  She knew exactly what we told her to do. She never had to be told twice. But she was a great guard dog also. If our...

I love dogs, especially Shepherds. When my husband and I married-way back when-he had been raised with a boxer and I loved a collie. We both loved our dogs, but we felt that it would be fair to both of us to get a different breed altogether. So we finally settled on a...

My friend and I decided that we would like to go through the Panama Canal. This was in some respects similar to other cruises, but also very different. We made several stops to visit islands and/or sea coast cities or areas along the route that we were on, but of...

I’m still writing about cruises!  A friend and I cruised to Hawaii. We both live on the east coast so we flew to San Diego where we boarded our ship. It took a week to get to Hawaii so we had plenty of time to take part in many of the activities on board. Plus having...

My first cruise was with my husband. I think that it was in St.Lucia where we rented a motorbike. We had such fun and the island was beautiful!  I couldn’t drive the bike because I didn’t bring my drivers license with me to the island. Who would have thought to do...

One year I spent over two weeks in Russia. We flew into Saint Petersburg and spent our time traveling down to Moscow. This was a musical trip in that all the 35 or so people on the trip were members of our church choir. We sang in a different church every night, as we...

I visited Germany twice. These trips were not in the same year, but we did go to the same city and we worked and stayed at the same church. Germany is a very pretty country. Of course, it is very old compared to America and so very different. The Germans keep their...