pets

Those who know me know I don’t do recreational pharmaceuticals.  I disapprove of them for me; you’re all welcome to dope yourselves into infinity, provided you hurt no one else.
Having given birth to several bouncing baby kidney stones, I learned one word early: MORPHINE.  I was never so happy as when it started to kill [...]

Yes, I know: `neurotic cocker’ is redundant.
Marshall’s getting a bit more crazy and I’m not entirely sure why.  I’m not surprised…. after all, he’s the third black neurotic rescue we’ve adopted.  I guess he just wasn’t as overtly nuts as the others.
I’ve heard stories but they usually take place while I’m asleep.  My wife tells [...]

I’ll be honest: I don’t like sports.
In fact, to say I don’t like sports is to say that Dick Cheney doesn’t like holy water.
So now that we have an understanding, I can tell you about the vet.
The vet, you say?
The vet, I say.
What does that have to do with hockey?
I’m getting there.  Stop interrupting.
We were [...]

Yes, we somehow got the Smart Cocker.  It’s not so much a bad thing as a weird thing, as the previous ones were, well… cockers.  This one is not only adorable, he’s terribly smart.  This tends to cause trouble, as sometimes he’s smarter than his people (or at least more tenacious).
This morning he drove to [...]

It started out like most others.. cursing the alarm, attempting to separate myself from the bed, a good morning from the dog that included leaping on parts that are better not bounced upon….
The odd part started when the car didn’t.  It cranked but never caught.  This is a first for this car, not to mention [...]

I just got in from a band audition.  I don’t do this often; in fact, this is my third audition in many many years.  I have been playing the guitar for something like thirty years (God I’m old) and auditioning for almost that long.
I was a very good student when I started playing.  This was [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the local tumult and a hundred square feet of bloody paw printed carpet, the cat injured himself yesterday.   When I last wrote, he was stationed on his own personal fluffy towel on the kitchen floor (blood comes off lineoleum better than carpet, I suspect).  My wife was going [...]

I don’t think I caught on to the fact that today was an unqualified disaster til I was most of the way through it.  In spite of the miserable weather (Precipitation Wednesdays), things didn’t look all that horrible.  I should have known, though… things were going along too well.  When I say well, I mean [...]

Sex at my house is not a normal event.
Don’t run; I promise not to get into any gory details.
It was just such a great line I had to use it.
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All sorts of interesting things tend to happen coincident with and around sex.
I’m in the bedroom and notice my wife picking up the remote control.  Since [...]

Just received via Rumormillnews:
You  all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who  painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates  wear pink prison garb. Well………
SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff  Joe offered to take the department [...]