I do scream therapy. My dogs are all buried under the same tree. I have two dogs. I was homeschooled.
I am an artist. I like to paint. My dog is buried in the yard next to my house. I have a husband and two sons. My sons school themselves. I sleep outside next to my dead dog.
My dogs have been quite rowdy today. They keep barking at each other. What do you think has got them acting up? My boys always got feisty before we got a bad storm.  I think the neighborhood kids are being to noisy playing football next door. What did you do to calm your dogs down? Took them on a run or tossed the ball around until they got tired out. Blueberries worked too, a few blueberries in their water bowl and they thought they were getting a big treat and calmed right down.   Ha. Tiring them out like you do kids is a good idea. I never heard of the blueberry trick, but that is something I will have to try. Did your sons help tire the dogs out when they were not doing schoolwork? Kirby, that's my little terrier that passed away a few months ago, he loved the boys and they loved to play with him. But Lasso, our husky that we had for a bit, he just sort of looked at the boys and then walked off, didn't want anything to do with them. Dogs are funny that way I guess. Do your pups like the kids around your street or are they scared of them?  For the most part my dogs like the kids right next door. However, when there are kids from other houses around they are very timid. They are really nervous around strangers, so we do not take them to dog parks often. Did you doggies like to go to the local dog parks? We don't have parks around here really, since most of the houses have so much land. Our house and my little studio sits on four acres, lots of room for the dogs and the kids and the chickens.  Oh, you are so lucky. I wish we had more land around here. What kind of studio do you have? Is it an art studio? I love meeting local artists. I do pottery so we took an old work shed and put a little kiln in there and some tables and things. I will have to show you some of my work sometime! I didn't realize you were an art lover. That is so cool. We have gone to the paint your own pottery places before and it is so much fun. It is so amazing how something simple like clay can be turned into amazing pieces of art. I would love to see your work. Do you have any on display anywhere? The local florist puts some of my stuff in her shop and people buy them as little presents. Pottery is great and so therapeutic. It really puts your mind at peace taking the clay in your hands and focusing everything on making it take shape. You should see if anyone near you gives lessons, you might really love doing it on a more serious basis. 