Denny on June 12th, 2008

I take a camera to the mountains because you just never know what you might be able to get a picture of. I was in Workman’s Creek today with my friend Mountainsaver and the first thing we came across was this black snake.

The snake was soaking up the sun and didn’t seem to care at [...]

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Denny on May 23rd, 2008

I was digging through the tons of files I have let build up on my computer and came across a file that holds all of the files and photos ever displayed on the original West Virginia Outdoors website. One thing that has definitely remained constant since the beginning is I still take a lot of [...]

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Denny on January 27th, 2008

This is the last post in a series about A Man And His Dog. Click the label to bring up all posts in this series.
For the first two years of Sam’s short life, she spent 99% of the time with me. After the house was completed I had to look for work elsewhere or Sam [...]

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Denny on January 24th, 2008

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The cool thing about Sam was that she adapted. We moved into a house and Sam, never having lived in one, seemed to be [...]

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Denny on January 17th, 2008

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There is something to be said for self imposed isolation. It was exactly what I needed to cure a bad attitude. A dog helped me to learn that there are still some things worth caring about even [...]

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Denny on January 6th, 2008

The story I am writing, A Man And His Dog, happens because I was homeless. In this post I’m going to give you the condensed version of the events that led to my downfall.
I’ve been divorced since ‘91, and my ex absolutely hates me to this day. When I get near her it’s just like [...]

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Denny on January 3rd, 2008

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While Sam was sick I had no idea what it was that had caused her to become so deathly ill. It wasn’t long afterwards, I figured it out. I don’t know about anywhere else but in West Virginia when you visit friends and [...]

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Denny on December 29th, 2007

This story is so long that I’m going to break it up into different posts.
I’ve told stories about my good friend Sam quite a bit in the life of my blogging. The reason for that is because Sam was special. She came into my life when I was otherwise completely alone and I came [...]

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