Jan Eliot's funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva and 10-year-old tomboy, a reclusive teenage boy, a wild preschooler and his new baby sister...and of course Wally, the ultimate nice guy who steps into his stepdad shoes with grace amid the chaos. Working-parent hassles, pre-school tantrums, middle-school angst, love and the single mom... it's all here in Stone Soup.
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templo SUD said, 6 months ago
Oh, what sort of plans did you have in mind if it weren’t walking the dog, Holly?
Fairportfan2 said, 6 months ago
@templo SUD
Mostly NOT going out in the cold, i suspect.
dkendraf said, 6 months ago
Still has a lot of puppy zip though for a “middle ager.”
husky51 said, 6 months ago
@dkendraf…
Oh, I don’t know… If I have to go REAL bad and I’m finally able to ‘let loose’, I’m pretty happy myself :)
edinbaltimore said, 6 months ago
No one walked him yesterday. They just opened the door and let him out. Just like politicians-plausible deniability!
Doctor11 said, 6 months ago
Happy doggy!
elven_eyes said, 6 months ago
The Joys of a Fenced-in Yard! I would just open the door, the dog would run out with great joy as I shut the door in the cat’s face….:-)
whmIII said, 6 months ago
@edinbaltimore
Perfect comparison…
flagfly
said, 6 months ago
elven-eyes I take it that the cat stays in because he has claws for to climb. We had some stray cats in one of our back yards once, and I was very surprised to see they went up the side of a concrete wall, even the kittens.
lightenup
said, 6 months ago
Brrrr! That’s one reason why I don’t want a dog… I would be the one walking it in the freezing cold and rain.
sjsczurek said, 6 months ago
We used to have a mini-toy poodle, when my family lived on a one-acre plot. In the wintertime, when there was two-plus feet of snow on the ground, we’d dig a walkway for him that went out about twenty feet, and a small area of turn-around room. That was his place for walking and everything else in the winter.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
If you have a big back yard you can let the dog walk itself and fertilize the yard free at the same time naturally.
Terri Brittingham said, 6 months ago
What a cute, happy doggie!
Dr Fogg said, 6 months ago
And they wonder why dogs get fat in winter
SusieSchroeder said, 6 months ago
And they wonder why I hate Holly