Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier

Farley’s Friday: A Special Announcement

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 7 Comments

Farley here,

My friend, Joan Y. Edwards, is having a special day.

As you know, I’m getting older. I’m almost 8 now, and that’s a lot in dog years. Kristina will take care of me as I get older, but humans need care too. So, Joan has written a guide about caring for the elderly, and I think it might help my human friends.

Screen Shot 2016-05-12 at 9.25.36 AMToday, Joan’s book, JOAN’S ELDER CARE GUIDE, is available.

Joan asked me to help spread the word, and how could I not? She’s been following Farley’s Friday for years, and always has  a word of encouragement for me.

So here I am, wagging my tail in encouragement at Joan.

Go, Joan, Go.

What’s her book about…

Joan’s Elder Care Guide: Empowering You and Your Elder to Survive gives you, the caregiver, ways to meet your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social needs and those of your elder to promote healing, well-being, and survival. Based on the author’s research and fourteen years of experience caring for her mother, this book provides many resources to find the right place for your elder to live, explains ways to improve communication to help find solutions to problems, and gives organization ideas for medical, financial, insurance, and legal documents.

It offers ways for a caregiver to get time away from caregiving responsibilities and contains information substitute caregivers must have to keep their elders safe. Along with all this, the book explains the signs of the end of life, ways to celebrate an elder’s life, and gives duties of an executor of an estate. It also includes ten useful charts to assist in assessing and recording an elder’s needs and capabilities.

Woof Woof.

Farley’s Friday: To Chase A Duck Or Not

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 11 Comments

Farley here,

The ducks are back in my neighbourhood. I’m contemplating chasing them. You can’t see them, but they’re in the pond.

Farley watching ducks

The problem is ducks can fly. I can’t. I wish I could. Do you think I can learn?

Woe is me. I’ll never catch a duck. Think I’ll just sit here and relax.

Happy Friday.

Woof Woof

Farley’s Friday: Joke’s on me

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 7 Comments

Farley here,

Did you know when ice melts off a pond’s surface, the water doesn’t get warm right away? In fact, it’s freezing.

Kristina did try to tell me before I jumped in, but I didn’t listen.

Happy April Fool’s Day. Don’t do anything silly. 🙂

Farley swimming

Woof Woof

Farley’s Friday: I’ve Got a Girlfriend

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 11 Comments

Farley here,

Let me introduce Piper. She’s my girl. She’s a border terrier, was born one week after me, and has been visiting us this week.

Here we are the day we came home to our humans.

Farley and Piper Day 1

And here we are on the couch seven years later.

Farley Piper

I may look aloof, but I’ve got a huge crush on her, and I’m trying to look cool.

Woof Woof

Farley’s Friday: Can a Wheaten Terrier Cry?

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 17 Comments

Farley here,

The answer to Can a Wheaten Terrier Cry is yes.

My friend for life, Finn, spent two and a half weeks living with me. Every night we snuggled side-by-side in our beds, reminiscing about the day. Okay, I’m sleeping and Finn is looking for something mischievous to do, but you get my point. He’s my bud. He’s an Icelandic sheepdog and very smart.

Dog BEds

Then the day comes when he has to go home. We curl up on the couch – ’cause Matt isn’t home – and I put my paw over my eyes and hide my tears. I know I’m going to miss him.

Farley Crying

Why can’t he live with us? I know he has his own humans, but mine are nice too. I think he should move in.

Woof Woof

Farley’s Friday: SQUIRREL!

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 9 Comments

Farley here,

Look what Kristina did to me now. I’m thinking she can read my mind, just by the way I’m giving her my big brown-eyed, I’m-the-most-pathetic-dog-ever stare and she gets I don’t want to wear boots pulled up like socks.

Farley Boots

“What are you thinking?” I bark.

Kristina scratches my ear. “There’s a ton of snow and it’s warm. You know what that means…Remember what happened the other day?”

I do remember. Kristina spent an hour getting snow clumps off my fur. I loved it. But, alas, I wag my tail and give in. Let’s just get out the door.

We hit the trails. I’m running as fast as I can in these silly boots, when I hear the tell-tale squeak of a squirrel. I glance to my left.

There it is! Without thinking I bound through the snow.

Farley Squrrel

I chase and I chase, but I just can’t get him. He’s too fast.

Then guess what happens. My boot comes off. Oops.

Do you see how deep the snow is? Kristina didn’t wear snowshoes today, and she had to climb through deep powder to get my boot.

“Don’t come in here,” I bark. “You’ll never find it.”

She laughs and me, gets down on her hands and knees and crawls across the snow. She must really want my boot.

After a little digging, she actually finds it.

“Ta da,” she says.

Boo, I think. Then I jump on her and lick her face. I love to play and what’s better than playing with my human in the snow? Not much, really.

In case you hadn’t heard, Kristina’s first novel is on sale, but only until tomorrow. She’s very proud of DESCENT, so if you haven’t read it, now’s your chance to get the eBook free.

Woof Woof

Farley’s Farley: Busted

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 11 Comments

Farley here,

Last week we had a four year old boy visit our house. Did you know four year old humans are shorter than regular humans? Much shorter than the humans I’m used to.

This little boy needed a pillow on the chair to boost him up, otherwise he couldn’t reach his food. Kristina went to the living room and fetched (ha ha – I said fetched for a human) one of the fancy living room pillows for the boy.

After everyone went to bed, I snuck downstairs, crept under the table, and with my teeth, slid the soft pillow off the dining room chair and onto the floor.

Wow, did I have a good night’s sleep.

Farley on pillow

However, Kristina – my tall human – was a bit quiet and I didn’t hear her get up in the morning.

Busted! She caught me sleeping on the pillow.

What’s a dog to do except run to her, wag his tail, give her a big lick, and look as cute as possible.

What did Kristina do? She leaned down, gave me a hug and a cookie, and said, “No sleeping on my good pillows.”  Yup, that’s going to keep me from stealing pillows in the future.

Woof Woof.

Farley’s Friday: Top 5 Reasons Dogs Should Be Welcome At Work

~ Kristina Stanley ~ 14 Comments

Farley here,

When Kristina was the director of security at a ski resort, and I was just a young pup, I got to go to work with her.

Tell me I wasn’t the cutest…That’s Kristina’s foot in the black boot on the left. I don’t remember who is wearing the white shoes, but I’m sure I was nice to him/her.

Farley in Office

Here are my top 5 reasons why dogs should be welcome at work

  1. Stress relief – it’s been proven blood pressure goes down when you pet a dog
  2. Good for morale – a dog is happy to see you every time you enter the office
  3. Facilitating team work – joint care of an animal brings people together
  4. Healthy lifestyle – the lunch time walk.
  5. Workplace safety – it’s hard to be angry when the cutest dog ever is wagging its tail at you.

So why wouldn’t you want a dog at work?

I loved going to the office, hanging out, letting everyone who walked by pat my head.

Woof Woof