HAPPY 18th Birthday at the Rainbow Bridge, our gorgeous alpha queen, Harley!  Today's Flashbacks are from various birthdays over the years... There is a B-I-G party going on north of the Rainbow Bridge! It's the birthdate of our beautiful first Siberian Husky, and the alpha queen of the FiveSibes pack ~ Nanuk "Harley" Mari ~ who would be 18 years old today!  While I know in reality she would not be here now, it is so wonderful to remember her and how she snuggled up to Gibson, and raised three pupsters that were not of her blood as her very own. Harley was the perfect picture of a Siberian Husky - her beautiful stunning blue eyes and black mask gave her the true princess look - I used to think of her like Cleopatra of the canine world. Her "eyeliner" perfect. She was so intelligent, and so fast! This girl loved to play a very enthusiastic game of Fetch, so much so that she would out play me! Some days it was hard to even get her to end the game. Even when sh...

    FiveSibes Flashback ~ Gibson ~ 2015 Pictured here is my beloved Gibson and I celebrating my birthday in 2015. My cake was a wonderful surprise from my family that had Gibson's gorgeous face on it! It was so lovely that I didn't want to cut it! (But we did. My family couldn't wait to dig into the cake. Me, I was trying to figure out how to save the top. BOL! Now, if you recall, I'm also the one who shellacked the five fondant Huskies on a previous cake! And yup, I sure do still have them! But, I'll share that photo another time. Here, my Gibbie was giving the cake a little taste test, before all FiveSibes had a bit of that whipped cream! This was to become one of those uber special moments I was so happy to have had my family capture on film. And, unbeknownst to me at the time, this would be the last birthday of mine that Gibson was here to celebrate for he passed just a few months later. This is such a wonderful memory for this FiveSibesMom's heart. I was/am...

  February 23, 2010 - the date that I launched this blog with a post on Pet Dental Health. Now, here I am celebrating 13 years of blogging! Wow! In some ways, it seems incredible that I've been writing this FiveSibes™ blog for that long, and in other ways, it feels like it was only yesterday.  So much has happened over the past baker's dozen of years--from talking about our every day lives to sharing videos of my fab five singing (and Gibson's famous hip-hop dance style!), to the announcement of my books and articles based on and/or inspired by them, their YouTube videos, the launch of my "The Sibe Vibe" show on Dog Works Radio, to our Canine Cooking Corner, to poetry and stories, to being recognized with the Dog Writers Association of America's prestigous Maxwell Medallion for Excellence, to becoming the top-ranked Siberian Husky blog, and so much more! It's all so incredible. My celebratory mood is dulled as they are no longer with me, but their persona...