Urban Oasis

As promised previously, here's Hanna in her new jacket we got for her "walkies," and we think she looks quite fetching, though...

Hanna says: My computer dude daddy is way too obsessed with this blog thing, but he says that I'm going to be a star, so I guess I shou...

Regular readers may have already noticed that there's a bit of redecorating going on here around the Oasis ... for quite a while, I'...

So here we are, at the end of Hanna's first week in residence here at Casa IVG ... and so far, she's been settling in remarkably wel...

I know, I know, I generally try to keep this a g-rated blog and my political rants are relatively infrequent, but sometimes I just can't...

As you regular readers know all too well by now, we lost our beloved Pepa and Rolly back in early December, and ever since, the house has se...

We're having another cold and snowy night here at Casa IVG, as we head into the snowiest and coldest week yet of the winter where our fo...

Hi folks! Hope your 2009 is going well so far where you are ... here it remains cold and somewhat dreary, only compounded by a malingering ...

I mentioned this short film by Adam Elliot recently in my post about Christmas Eve, and was delighted to find that the entire film is now po...

Here we are, now two full days into the new year of 2009 and I'm reluctant to let our beautiful tree go just yet, though it's inevi...

Click Image to Play Video As we inch inevitably closer to New Year's Eve, perhaps the most alcohol connected of all holidays (save, perh...

Click on Image to Play Video I just thought I'd post this fun little video I ran across tonight ... it made me smile, even with the gene...

Well the big day officially arrived here quietly tonight, as we were watching A Christmas Story , one of our annual holiday rituals, after w...

Tonight, let's take a look at what's going on at the top of the tree, and as you can see, there's quite a bit! In fact, the top...

I really intended to organize my ornament blogging thematically this year! But after all that's been going on at work and on the home fr...

It's hard to believe, but here we are, just a few days before Christmas, and fortunately, in the gifting department ... both of us are a...

Well here we are, less than a week away from Christmas, just digging out from the latest storm that's apparently lumbering northeast now...

Click image above to view video at YouTube I'm on Robert Greenwald's email list and received this from his BraveNew Films project e...