My Life in HTML

Sorry to be absent from these pages for the better part of a week. I’ve been deep in the heart of Webville, putting the final touches on my class project for my Introductory HTML & CSS course. It’s a full website, yes, it’s about terriers, and, of course, it features Oscar and Lucy. More about that later. First I want to get down some thoughts about my first...

Hair of the Dog

Photo from the Daily Telegraph I’ve often said, badly paraphrasing Mark Twain: “Everyone complains about dog hair, but no one does anything about it.” Well, now someone has — and at the exact moment when it can help alleviate the ecological disaster of the BP Gulf oil spill. Turns out there is an innovative charity called A Matter of Trust that has figured out...

Days of Wine and Rosé

It’s about time for another winemaking post. After all that was the raison d’être of my blog. I know it seems I get sidetracked, what with writing about worms, Johnny Cash and guns, but that doesn’t mean winemaking has stopped here at Two Terrier Vineyards. Even though we got everything in oak barrels months ago and the vines are just starting to emerge from winter...

Technology Fail on a Grand Scale

Regular readers have probably noticed that I haven’t been throwing up my usual daily or every other day posts. I’ve been contending with a major technology melt-down that put me days behind in everything. Up here in Sonoma, I’m living a pioneer lifestyle. Well, except for the Wi-Fi. No TV, little radio reception, no landline phone, no DVD players, no neighbors (at...

Terrier Riders On the Storm

California has been pounded by rainstorms this week, complete with thunder, lightning and lots of power outages. Add one nervous, neurotic terrier and it’s a recipe for disaster. Or at least a week of no sleep. Lucy would be that terrier. And from the first loud clap of thunder on Tuesday, she became the shivering, hyperventilating poster pet for animal medication. The problem...

Hipper Than Thou

The beautiful thing about the iPhone are the thousands of applications you can download. Some are ingenious such as iBird Explorer, a database of the birds in your area including a search function that helps you identify any of your feathered friends and an audio clip of each birds call that you can use to scare your terriers. Some are of the “How Did I Survive Without...