The start of another week smack in the heart, the core, the essence of summer. Beer, mosquitoes, fresh tomatoes, potato salad, the flag, fishing, blueberries, hand cranked ice cream, cherry cobbler and reggae on my mind.
Some things tickling my fancy.
Month: July 2010
american pawtriot
The problems started after this post.
First it was innocent questions like ‘how do you spell unalienable‘? Or ‘can we watch the HBO series John Adams?‘ It progressed to her hounding me to drive to the library to check out The Federalist Papers……then it snowballed to last Monday. That’s when she balked at her Whole Earth Organic Soy dog food.
*Pointy nose in air* I no longer care to observe Meatless Mondays.
Her sassy, self-confident tone stung my ears. This wasn’t the Birkenstock-wearing, NYU-graduating canine I’d grown to love (she is acquaintances with the Olsen twins!). I contemplated the sudden change in Doxy’s political views (while standing in front of the book shelf nonchalantly blocking her view of my copy of An Inconvenient Truth). Where was the blissfully uninformed, so easy, so compliant….so…..moderate wiener dog? Studying her wiener behavior the past few weeks, a disturbing pattern began to emerge.
Like the hot day we came inside after an energetic game of tennis ball and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47352955@N03/4813848264/
I found her at my desk reading The Drudge Report.
Another day, I was greeted with this shocking sight.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47352955@N03/4813214373/
Gotta respect a lady who can field-dress a moose. Makes moose chili. Drives ice machines. Don’t you think Todd’s a hottie?? I don’t care what she can see from her house-she’s a winner. Wouldja get me a SARAH! bumper sticker for my dog bed??
She pronounces the title Growling Rogue. Dimwit.
Speaking of field dressing a moose, I found Doxy nosing around this a day or two ago.http://www.flickr.com/photos/47352955@N03/4813220775/
8th wonder of the world
Short and sweet Monday.
I have discovered the 8th wonder of the world! The cure for crotch-picking and wedgie-wrangling. The cure for VPL that doesn’t try to stuff a size 12 into a size 4.
Are you ready?
I’m wearing these right now and I am comf-ter-bull. Not pickin’ my seat.
TMI, TMI?……sorry.
Are you a man reading this? Look away, now.
Here’s what is delighting my derriere.
Disclaimer: Soma does not know I exist, nor that I am blissfully happy wearing their intimates. I would not be above taking cold cash from Soma for this endorsement, but so far they haven’t offered.
mid-week fun quiz
Time for a mid-week quiz!!
C’mon, take it….it will be fun and only take a minute.
1. Did you ever let your young ‘uns jump on a trampoline (the old-school kind with NO safety nets) while throwing a basketball at them and calling it ‘dodgeball’?
____Of course. It’s all in good fun. No different than letting the babies roll around in the back of the Suburban like bowling balls.
____No way! I think 1980’s parenting styles sucked.
2. Are you a cat or a dog person?
____Feline
____Canine
____Bovine
3. Have you ever eaten fried green tomatoes?
____No, I’m generally against the use of searing, hot grease to kill innocent tomatoes.
____Yes, but I’ve never read Fannie Flag’s book.
4. Have you ever left for vacation and carefully and diligently secured your doggie door….then a couple of days later had your ‘housewatcher’ come over to bring in the mail….only to discover you’ve locked the feral cat INSIDE your house?
____No, do I look like a total idiot?
____That story is so terrifying, I just popped a Valium.
____I can quote you the cost of carpet cleaning and flea infestation spraying.
5. Are you a ‘mountain’ or an ‘ocean’ person?
____I suffer from severe altitude sickness.
____I went swimming with JoJo, the dolphin.
____Any place serving alcohol, I’m there!
6. Have you ever trapped a cat in a ‘live’ trap?
____Three-day old tuna salad is the best bait!
____Sicko! How could you trap Garfield?
7. Do you sometimes pass gas with no warning? I mean, with no warning that it was coming? Out, that is. And you surprise yourself? NO warning at all?
____I clip and hoard ‘Beano’ coupons.
____The government has slapped me with a CO2 tax.
____So, that WAS you?
8. Are you a PETA member, but sometimes harbor evil, twisted thoughts about extinguishing cats?
____They say one can always spot a serial killer psycopath by the way one treats animals.
____No. And no, you cannot look in my Maytag.
9. Do you still suffer from acne?
____My spouse is suspicious of me and the UPS delivery person. Proactive comes every 2 weeks.
____Hope there’s benzoyl peroxide in the rest home!
____I can’t see my face well enough to discern if I have acne. Do I??
10. Have you ever grown a yellow squash as big as your wiener?
____No…but I’ve grown one as large as my Shih-Tsu.
____Squash tastes better grown no longer than 6 inches.
____Why are we discussing this?
How did you do? Feel free to leave a comment or discuss amongst yourselves. Well…..except #7. That can be for your own edification.
Keep having a great week! Quizzy love to all.