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CheeseOptimist's avatar

There’s something about your writing that makes me want to fall over and kick my feet in happiness. Oh… I wonder if that’s how Bon-Bon felt when he was in the Pile!

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Summer Block Lizer's avatar

Our new puppy Monica obeys all her commands perfectly indoors but becomes completely ungovernable the minute she goes into the backyard. We refer to this as Yard Madness.

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Elizabeth Karre's avatar

Again, Danny, you have fulfilled all my dreams. I was waiting for a Michigan update and you delivered an excellent one. And I like the contrast between Lily’s expression and Rocco’s in the picture. Lily is sure everything is under control and Rocco sees disaster approaching. Rocco knows something the dogs have not yet revealed to the parents…

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Caeden's avatar

I could read whole books about your family life and the adventures of your sweet dogs. This brightened my day considerably, thank you.

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Chris M's avatar

Get yourselves a compost bin. It is easy to assemble adequately, and will keep dogs and rats out. Soon there'll be teeming balls of worms, and frogs when it rains (at least we get frogs). And in the Fall, you can dump the raked leaves in there and tell them they're going to Backyard Valhalla.

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Caroline Ford's avatar

Bon-Bon could surly not have been more keenly or humorously observed if he had belonged to P.G. Wodehouse himself. May he have all the freedom of the lawn and may the delights of the pile one day be his ✨

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Auzin Ahmadi's avatar

God I love this

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

My God, this is wonderful!

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vitajexjexjex's avatar

Each sentence better than the last, but I think this is the one that got me to LOL: “The Pile speaks to the deeps of Bon-Bon’s spirit, and he longs more than anything to commune with it.”

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Katie Levin's avatar

I adored this, AND it makes me hope that you have read (or will read) Chapter 4 of Mary Poppins, “Miss Lark’s Andrew.” https://lingualeo.com/en/jungle/p-l-travers-mary-poppins-chapter-four-miss-larks-andrew-165704

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Mike Oppenheim's avatar

FANTASTIC!!!!

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