Their first day at the pool begins with hugs of reassurance that no one will ever leave them alone to sink or swim. It is followed by a discussion among the affected parties as to how much they will poop in mom’s bed that night to show their appreciation for this interesting experience.
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Would someone please come and explain this concept of daylight savings time and turning the clock back an hour to my birds and dogs. They apparently don’t quite grasp it. I stayed up an extra hour on Saturday night to revel in the change. They got up an extra hour earlier on Sunday morning, totally unimpressed with the concept of magically changing time based on government fiat. Perhaps they’ve followed the government’s recent debacles and figured they shouldn’t pay attention to anything it tries to do.
It occurs to me that I spend more time reading the ingredients in my dogs’ food than I do in the food I eat. Hmmm….
Is there anything more fun than handing out treats to your dogs that they really don’t like but not a one of them is going to pass it up for fear the others will have the advantage. They stand there with the treat in their mouths, each eying the other and then go hide it. It will reappear at some point during my annual deep cleaning ritual when I’m willing to look into the dark spaces.
It makes everything old seem new again since we don’t remember a damn thing from one day to the next.
It being so close to Halloween, I think we should examine the new paradigm in America in which the scariest things of all begin with the words, “The US Congress has formed a bipartisan committee to (fill in the blank – it doesn’t matter because nothing will ever come of it).” Also high on the list are the words, “Hi, I’m from the Affordable Care Act and I’m here to help you enroll online.”
Growing up, I was always told how lucky I was to live in America and not the Soviet Union where people feared their government. How quickly
Maybe this is asking too much from a group that is clearly limited in so many ways but if the Republicans don’t like Obama’s health care plan, what exactly is their alternative plan? Have I just missed it in all my reading and listening?
As someone privileged to get up close and personal with our magnificent wild birds on a weekly basis, I sometimes forget the wonder that overcomes someone interacting with them for the first time. I rediscover that wonder in the eyes of the children who come to events like Owl-O-Ween and hand Kodi, our Northwestern Crow, a dollar bill that he then deposits in his cache jar. It is always an amazing experience.
How one person who only lives with birds and dogs can possibly spend as much as I do at Costco’s on a regular basis is beyond me. I will not be wanting for cheddar cheese in the near or distant future. Or apples. Or olive oil.
Sigh…
I open the cabinet above my computer in my office and all the CD’s come tumbling out and cut my head.