Category: Dawg Bits

Me, a jaded 35-year Colorado veteran, just witnessed Knoxville handle an entire 8 INCH SNOWPOCALYPSE. Buckle up, y’all, because this ain’t your average blizzard. Here’s how it went down: Garbage Day? More like Garbage Week: Apparently, snow melts trash, so sanitation is on a “tropical siesta” for the next 7 days. Guess I’ll just admire […]

Follow this simple plan that we accidentally discovered to start getting your free surprise gifts from Amazon! Our house was painted four months ago and procrastination ensued to replace the old house numbers that were removed with something more elegant.  Soon thereafter, a package showed up at the front door from an Amazon delivery van. […]

This was part of an actual phone conversation last night, as I was reserving a Motor Home for a long weekend, after sticker shock over nightly internet rates.  Upon hearing the very low rate for a three night rental I said, “Are you sure that is the correct rate?  It was a lot more than […]

Latest Home Tech … front door lock keypad, garage door keypad, phone app to open garage door remotely. Never a need for physical keys again! Yesterday, after a walk around the block … painted the house last fall and garage door keypad not yet reinstalled. Front door keypad worked to lock the door when we […]

We unknowingly ordered this item, thinking it was a simple exterior house number.  Instead, it was mistakenly shipped as the incredible product “Space, the Final Frontier”!  Unfortunately, I was not present when Yvonne opened this amazing package and found … “Space” … nothing more … an empty box with no product and not even a […]

The latest meteorologist and media craze that has swept the country to help entice us naïve consumers into frenzy and fear, so we are lured to their news product.  Previously known by 100% of the population as “a big snow storm”, the new term provides a thrilling apocalyptic connotation that electrifies our emotions. Here are […]

4:22 PM Wednesday, May 14, 2014 – Ring, ring, ring … “hello”.  Exasperated and out of breath, Granddaughter Jacqi wails “Gr … ma, nee … huh … uua … cow … huh … ou!!!  Come … huh … na!!!  Hur!!!”  Translation – Grandma, we need your help now!  The cows got out!  Come right now.  […]

I’ll Show You March, 2008 – Time for a new puppy and the decision is near.  A cute little black yorkie was tugging at our heartstrings.  Just one more side trip to Denver to see a few more pups. Upon arrival, we saw the tiny Shih-poos and began holding a few of them.  One little […]

Meet Chancey, the famous Boston Terrier mascot that adorns the header of the Rambling Dawg website.  After many years in Georgia, residing with previous owner Ed Dodd, Chancey travelled to Colorado in the belly of a jet airliner, where he made his new home. Undoubtedly, the favorite pastime of Chancey in Colorado was patrolling the […]

Sometime in the early 2000s, we were visiting my father in law, Ed Dodd, in Athens, GA.  My sister in law and brother in law, Marie and Jim, lived just up the hill about 50 yards away.  Soon after our arrival, we noticed a pretty redbird that would fly constantly between a tree and Ed’s […]