May
12
2012
My four dogs like broccoli. Pax, our big Rottweiler mix stood there lapping up the broccoli juice from the pan til it was gone. Tilla was kind of funny. He started to eat a piece his (???), spit it out and then had a second thought about the taste and then ate it keeping it down this time. The other two also had some broccoli remains from dinner. Our dogs like veges–at least broccoli.
Apr
15
2012
Why do your clothes have to look new all the time. I have been hesitating to wear my bright orange cap because the brim is frayed. I just wore it out. I thought that was ridiculous. Who cares it looks worn? Why can’t we wear out clothing. It was one of my favorite hats. It has the name of a state park one of my best friends and I fished/camped the last five years. The hat reminds me of him. Today it matched my outfit so I will wear it despite what any one thinks. I like the hat. And that is enough for me.
Apr
13
2012
My wife excitedly told me she saw from the kitchen window facing the backyard two bunnies chasing each other, going around the undergrowth. I looked out the window and at first didn’t see any bunnies, but then two appeared, again chasing each other. Later on, Momma Bunny appeared and decided to enjoy our grass nearby. She was quite bigger than the other two. The others must have been her kids. I love watching cottontails from of (???) the window.
Apr
12
2012
It was a quick picture I might have easily missed. We noted recently our neighbors down the road must have gotten a burro. You always have to be careful when you pass by their house: their chickens cross the road all the time. Yesterday I was passing their house and spotted the burro in the yard on its back. It must have had an itch it was taking care of. That little detail made my day. It is impossible to see everything but, nevertheless, you never know what will come your way when you view your world expectantly.
Apr
11
2012
I think Tilla is being amusing and also likes to make me laugh. Sometimes when I call my four dogs in he will be last. He will trot toward me and stop about twenty feet from me and immediately roll on his back as if to say, “Rub my belly. Then I will come in!” He knows I stopped doing that a long time ago. I simply refuse to do that any longer just so he obeys me and comes in when I call him. I come to the conclusion he is being silly and simply likes to make me roar when he does that. Even dogs have a sense of humor. He is not trying to be difficult. He just wants to make me laugh.
Mar
21
2012
The dog I encountered near my house loose was a spitting image of my golden retriever. I thought that somehow Sweetie had gotten out. I was trying desperately to unlock my passenger door so she could hop in. I was not successful. The dog briefly headed toward me and then disappeared. I told my wife about the discovery. Well, Sweetie was in the house. I almost brought home a strange dog. We both laughed. I had other encounters on the way home that night. I had to brake a little. A baby opossum scurried frantically across the road right in front of me and when I got home I flushed a cottontail in my driveway.
Mar
17
2012
“Big Woof” lumbered out of the door barking every step of the way heading for the fence. God knows what he is barking at. He likes to hear his own voice. “Tilla” his grown up kid loves to tease him. “Tilla” might have a bone in his mouth and run along side “Big Woof” as if to say, “Look what I have and you can not have it.” He does know when to back off but loves “pushing” him to the limit. “Big Woof” a Rottweiler mix, is demanding. At night if he has to go out, he does his business quickly and is back at the front door right away demanding you let him in. And not one second later. I used to like to get a rise out of him and pull his tail and he would look at me as if to ask, “Why are you doing that?” I love teasing him. He does have his particular corner of the fence where he loves to bark at people who pass by. If they are walking a dog, that is even more exciting.
Mar
11
2012
Two days ago we bought a mattress that might outlive me. It had a twenty-five year warranty. That fact did not escape me. This is the second mattress we bought in the last year. The other one was just too hard for my wife. I am hoping the new one she will be able to sleep in and not have pain. She has a bad back. Now we have to sell the other one.
Feb
15
2012
I actually caught “Cheyenne”, one beautifully marked grey and white long haired male cat who has not been to the vet in over two years. He is a step slower now. He has been sniffling so we were both thrilled he will get to the vet today. Any time I approach him he usually stiffens and gives me the eye: What right do you have to go near me he seems to say?! Each animal has likes and dislikes just like humans. He simply does not like me. I have accepted that fact but I still periodically try to approach him. The result is usually the same. He runs the opposite direction. Anyway, he is getting his yearly exam.
Feb
12
2012
“Coco”, our full grown mutt was cute. Yesterday I handed out two big bones to our four dogs. They usually play musical chairs with them. “Coco” had one clutched to her chest sitting in the living room on the Lazy Boy chair. She is a female and the least aggressive of our four. Later on she moved to the other Lazy Boy chair in the office. I just had to smile looking at her still clutching her bone right under her chest. She is the most private of our four dogs. She was going to make sure no one got that bone. It was hers.
Jan
11
2012
Tilla, one of my dogs did it again. We were about to go to bed. My wife took her spot on the left side. And my eighty pound short-haired black dog jumped on the bed, took my spot on the right and curled up looking so comfortable at the head of the bed. He would not move and I slipped in bed to the right of him almost off the bed and tried to grab what blanket I had left. My left hand wrapped around his sleeping body as I slept on my side. The black mid-sized dog was quite cozy. He even sighed a few times. Thank God it was a king sized bed! At some point he jumped off the bed but I did not notice. I was long asleep.
Dec
4
2011
My clothes must breed in secret in my closet. I had no idea where this blue shirt came from. I was looking for something to wear which was warm. And there it was. I had no idea where it came from. It is not that I have mountains of clothing. I don’t, although I have to say my closet is relatively full. I have on occasion given away clothing. In fact, our “jacket” closet was overflowing until we gave away some less worn clothing. Now I can find articles of clothing easier. I don’t have to struggle to find and pull one coat out of there. Every once in a while I find something in one of my closets and I have no idea where it came from. As I said, the clothes I have breed while I am not watching and there it is–one of its grown children usually a different color and shape. We will blame it on genes.
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