Our FiveSibes™Flashback Photo ~ Christmas 2014 We are happy to be back with our #FiveSibes #FlashbackFriday Blog Hop just in start for the howliday and snowy season, to the tune of 18" of the fresh white sparkling powder! This Christmas will truly be a different one...it is the first Christmas without our alpha queen Harley and pupster Chloe. To suddenly be down to a pack of two is indeed a very strange thing. It's been sad and surreal to go through our daily routine with Wolfie and Bandit and no sister Chloe or "mama" Harley...I still have a hard time without my beloved Gibson, and this month it will be four years he has been celebrating Christmas at the Rainbow Bridge, along with my dear mother. This card sums up my feelings perfectly. Now that our Harley and Chloe have joined them, and as you know from my last post and the reason for our blogging break, it has been very difficult to adjust to their passing both for me and for my pupsters Wolf and...

"We miss our momma, Harley, and sister, Chloe, so much, but we're trying and doing better." So many of you have reached out to see how our Wolfgang and Bandit are doing since our beloved alpha queen Harley left us to meet our furangels Chloe and Gibson and journey to north of the Rainbow Bridge. Your support and caring has truly touched our hearts, both during Chloe's loss in June, and with Harley's passing just two months ago. This post alone I started and stopped and started and stopped for weeks. There is no sugarcoating it...it's downright sad, lonely, and so strangely quiet. While we do have Wolf and Bandit, everything here feels different. It's so surreal. My eyes still scan the yard as I mentally count for my five...even though it will be four years for Gibson in December, my heart and mind will always look for my FiveSibes, with memories flooding back of them running together so happy and free across my backyard.   Healing together...

Our girl "Bandit" and her mini-me Bandit!   Bwaaahaaahaaaahaaa! Please Note:  This post contains an affiliate link for the item I purchased. By clicking on the link, I will receive a small compensation *at no extra cost to you*! T hank you! If you'd like the cute little Halloween plush Husky in the photo, you can find it (a Dalmatian, Beagle, and Lab are also available) via our affiliate link below:     And a little fun with hu-brother's  jack-o-lantern ball! (Pretty cool, isn't it?!) We bought this at Hannaford! And, of course, we can't forget the purple pumpkin for Canine Epilepsy Awareness! Our Thursday Throwback photo is of our dear furangel Gibson with his purple pumpkin that we keep always in his memory.  Never heard of purple pumpkins for epilepsy? Check out our video here to learn all about it, starring many of our furfriends, too! My article on The Purple Pumpkin Project and why we have a purple pumpkin always for G...

a So my kind of day ~ coffee with my Huskies! Anyone who knows me, knows I love (and need) my coffee and love my Sibes...so I will always take my coffee with some Siberian Huskies! Enjoy! "A cup of gourmet coffee  shared with a friend   is happiness tasted  and time well spent."   ~Anonymous Back to Our Blog Home Page! Visit our FiveSibes Website!

"Where we love is home - home that our feet  may leave, but not our hearts."  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Our beloved Harley, alpha queen of our #FiveSibes is now back home for eternal rest, alongside Gibson and Chloe. Somehow, it seems fitting that she came home today...on my birthday. Harley loved car rides, so my daughter and I gave her one final long car ride home while reminiscing our lives with her. Heartfelt thanks to someone very special to us, her amazing vet Dr. Beth Alden at Kingston Animal Hospital for her care of Harley over the many years, for always being there, and for Harley's final peaceful at-home end of life care.    Much appreciation also to Dutchess County SPCA and Faithful Companion Memorial Services for her respectful after life care.  Love you forever, Har-Har girl.  It's been a wonderful, blessed, amazing, loving, and fun-filled 14-and-a-half years...but still, never enough ti...

FiveSibes Harley doing what she  loved best, s now zoomies! Do you believe the special human-canine bond can be so deep, that the connection lasts even when our beloved pets have journeyed to the Rainbow Bridge? Do you believe they are capable of sending us signs? I absolutely do. Today, is the first day of Autumn, the start of my FiveSibes favorite time of year when the cooler temps arrive followed by zoomies in the crunchy leaves with snowy days not too far behind. Today also marks 10 days since our beautiful beloved momma girl, Harley, earned her furangel wings. In her memorial tribute post , I mentioned that our girl did indeed send us a sign on the day she crossed over. And in true Harley style, she really did. Or, at least I believe she did.  Sometimes the signs sent by our pets are obvious. Others more obscure. Sometimes we are so full of grief, our eyes are closed to those very brief moments where a message can be sent, but never to be seen. And sometime...

As a gentle late summer breeze blew, our beloved Harley passed peacefully outside at home today in the early afternoon, held by my daughter and I, and wrapped in so much love. Standing nearby their surrogate mother's side were Wolf and Bandit. While our hearts are truly broken again, after just losing our sweet Chloe in June, Harley is free now from pain and running with both Gibson and Chloe, North of the Rainbow Bridge.  “Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’re going to lose a dog, and there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can’t support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There’s such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price.” – Dean Koontz Future FiveSibes Alpha Queen My daughter and Harley....