When we lost blind Tonto after his colic surgery back in August, his best friend and pasture buddy of many years, blind Scout, became forlorn.  He kept looking for Tonto, pacing in circles and whinnying for him.  Scout was waiting for Tonto to come back, and every time he’d hear hoofsteps approach, he’d get excited…

A couple of weekends ago we had a delightful visit from John Woestendiek, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Baltimore Sun.  John is currently on leave from the newspaper for a few months as a Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Montana for the fall semester.  And although he’s not officially "reporting" for…

Yes, it’s another post with Baron in it!  I took this photo today in my office of Baron with Dolly, one of our ‘personal’ dogs.  In Baron’s story on his Web page, we wrote this about him: "Baron likes to snuggle, too. Because he’s blind and deaf, he can’t always read doggy social cues, so…

Sometimes it’s the little everyday things you don’t notice until one day you finally really see it.  For instance, sitting here at my desk today, I looked down and saw blind-and-deaf Baron curled up in the round bed right next to me.  It dawned on me that Baron is always in that bed, and that…