Red Goes to Hollywood!

Moving a dog's food dish or bed are two cardinal sins in a dog's world.  Dog lovers know that dogs love their humans, food and routine (not necessarily in that order)!  Red's dish has been in the exact same spot for over five years.  I've seen the puzzled look, the scrunched up face and cocked ears when it's moved for cleaning.  Moving a dog's dish across the room is bad enough, but moving it across the country??  Oy. Thankfully, in my eagerness to research housing choices in the L.A. area, I came across the dreaded BSL.  Breed Specific Laws are alive and well in L.A.  I thought with California being so progressive, this would have been a thing of the past.  Boy was I wrong!   I saw "pet friendly" and assumed all breeds were welcome with a security deposit and added rent per month for a pet.  I mean, who wouldn't want  a dog like Red on the premise?  He's quiet, (Red has barked a handful of times in the five years we've had h...

Let me start my very first blog with a brief hello.  My name is Susan, I have a wonderful husband of one year (we've know each other since the 9th grade, but that's a story for another day), and 2 beautiful twin boys (men).  My "men" are both in college going into their junior years and needless to say, this mom is proud! So, I'm a wife, mom, a full-time nurse, part-time student and thought I was set in my ways.  Thought I'd be in Honey Brook the rest of my life, in this house and at my current job of 26 years.  Well...not so fast!  At the ripe young age of 58, we have decided to move to L.A. after the boys graduate college, which gives us two years to plan.  We took a trip to L.A. for my husband's birthday this past March and fell in love.  The thought no more snow, no more leaves to rake, are huge selling points in their own right.  But, we looked at the scenery of L.A., the mountains, the beach, the desert all there at our fingertips and fell...