It's been a while since I've been here (it actually looks like my rate is about 1 blog per year). This one is necessary today, because I have to post a sad update to a story I posted here back in 2010, called Songs in the Key of Elvis.

We lost our dachshund Elvis last night, to complications of a recently-diagnosed case of canine diabetes. We still haven't come to grips with the loss of the valiant little hard-headed spirit of this house. It is all still too new, too raw to talk about, other than to say this:

Elvis was a damned fine dog. And that's all there is to it.