Category Archives: Misc
What would someone find in your couch?
Posted by doggonedmysteries
In Spokane Washington, a woman bought a used couch for $27.00 and found she had a stow-away inside it. A CAT. Which brings to mind what someone might discover in mine later.
Knowing my dogs as I do there will probably be a Nylabone or three stashed away in my couch’s depths. There might even be some spare change. There’s a good possibility that a dust bunny or two may have stowed-away. It could be that the sock monster has used it as a place to stash his prizes. Maybe there’s a dog cookie or two but I doubt that because these two never let a snack pass them by, ever. You might even find some beads that pulled a mass escape when I was working on some jewelry.
That’s my couch. Now, it’s up to you. What would someone find in your couch?
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Flu shots, DH, and miscellaneous questions
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Dear Hubby hasn’t felt well for the last couple of days and tonight he thinks he’s figured out why. It seems that every time he’s with his Mother, when or right after she gets a flu shot, he gets ill. Could it be that she sheds just enough of the virus/antiviris that his contact with her gives him a mild case of the flu?
Why does my inner child play with matches when I’m already warm but refuses to when I’m cold?
If you’re the only person to show up for a meeting, is it a meeting?
Why is it that when you decide to have a quiet night reading, the phone that has been silent for weeks begins to ring every five minutes?
Why is it that if one dog is quiet, the other one decides to cut up?
If the damned squirrels can’t remember where the heck they’ve buried their nuts, why do they bury them in the first place. (You should see the holes in my yard and gardens.)
If you know someone is always late, do you tell him/her to come at an earlier time so he/she will arrives on time? (I do.)
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Someone call the pool man the shallow end of gene pool needs cleaning
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Spike network has a new show called A Thousand Ways to Die. What I’ve seen in the advertisements makes me believe that particular end of the gene pool needs a good cleaning. Drinking gasoline to get drunk? Oh, please, there’s a person whose genes DO NOT need to be replicated.
The show on TruTV World’s Dumbest Crooks or what ever it’s called, shows more prime candidates floundering away in the shallow end of the gene pool. Have you ever read those dumb crook of the month articles? Yep, more chlorine please.
How about the people Jay Leno has talked to on his street walking bit? Do you think that some of them should pass their genes on to future generations? Oh, pool man!
I won’t even bother to mention Octomom since she already has passed on her genes to another generation. Heaven help them.
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When characters revolt
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What do you do when your characters pull a coup? In one of my books, they seem to be doing just that. I can’t get my protagonist on board with my ideas. The antagonist has gone willy-nilly into the background and the whole story line has gone to the dogs. Yes, to the dogs. It seems that they want to be the real stars in book four. No, there isn’t an excerpt to read. It’s not ready for that. It may never be ready for that.
Book four is an idea, one that I add to occasionally. I won’t get around to writing it until after I finish books one through three. However, even in idea form the characters are not cooperating. Book four has become a repository for scenes that don’t work in the other books. It might stay locked in a file under the title of The Big Book of Unused Scenes, or it may be the book where the dogs take center stage and the other characters blend into the background.
In any case, it’s where most of the brilliant but overdone doggy scenes I cut from the other books go when they don’t work.
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MIL update, Gavin, and miscellaneous thoughts
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Dear Hubby’s mother has come down with a cold but she’s still working hard in her daily PT. The feisty old gal is quite resolute about getting out of the Rehab Hospital. It’s been a little over a month since her fall and she is showing no lack of determination. Dear Hubby is there every day while she does her PT, which I think is a great help in motivating her.
Gavin’s ear looks good and he’s been enjoying daily romps with Patty. Although, now when she gets a bit nippy around his ears she does get a scolding. You can practically see her roll her eyes at you. “Geez, I can’t grab his ears and you yell at me for dragging him around by his collar. What’s a girl to do?” The no collar rule stems from having to buy Gavin new ones too many times after she’d chewed through them (while they were still on his neck.)
We had a gray drizzly day today but it was warm. In between sprinkles, I did some clean up work on the pond. I won’t be able to do the major work until spring is in full blast.
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March, an amazing month
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A few days ago, we had snow on the ground and today the mercury hit seventy degrees. I love the capriciousness of March. It’s the Yin and Yang month of the year. Winter and spring battle for four weeks. We root for spring to win since by March we’ve had enough of winter.
Tomorrow spring will rule for most of the day but winter will make a raid on our evening. We will wonder if spring will rally in the next few days. My budding gardens say yes. Grass is slowly showing signs of life. Faster would nice so I don’t have dogs tracking in mud.
The Koi are hungry they beg for food now, and our frogs are beginning to creep out of the pond to hunt, more signs that spring will soon win the battle.
It won’t be long and I’ll be digging in sun warmed soil planting flowers and vegetables. By my back door, my chives are starting to peek through the mulch in their pot. The mint and lavender will soon follow suit.
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Accentuate the positive…
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We didn’t hit the lottery this week. One hundred and seventy four million would have been nice. However, the sudden change to an entirely new tax bracket would’ve been mind blowing. (Imagine how popular one becomes when one wins a pot like that.) The phone rings off the hook, friends and relatives you never knew you had, crawl out of the woodwork, or out from under rocks. Makes me glad we didn’t win.
The weather is getting warmer and although we may have one or two more snowstorms sneak in here, spring is just around the corner. Yes, spring! The yard may be all mud but that means the fertilizer will sink in faster and the grass will be greener this summer.
Money is tighter so we’ll be home more. Less driving equals less pollution, this is good. We’ll shop at the farmer’s market more often because it’s closer than the supermarket, which means we’ll keep the local farmers in business.
The price of our electric is going up so that means we’ll turn on fewer lights, evenings will be more romantic by candlelight. This could be very good.
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Update on MIL
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Since it was Sunday, my mother-in-law had a break from her rigorous schedule of physical therapy today. Dear Hubby made a special stop at a local restaurant known for its home made ice cream and picked up some for her, raspberry his favorite of their flavors. This woman has a passion for ice cream no matter what time of year so I’m sure the gesture pleased her. Mom was in good spirits but didn’t have much of an appetite so she insisted DH share her treat.
I can’t eat ice cream in the winter time. I find the only time I’m hungry for it is when the mercury climbs above eighty degrees. It certainly wasn’t near that today. Now it’s snowing—DANG IT!
Hope you all had a very good day.
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E-collars, BTs, and feedback
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One of the two E-collars I’d ordered arrived today. Glad we don’t need them now but I’ll stash them away for any future ‘just in cases’. With Bull Terriers you never know and these cost me half of what the vet’s office charged.
The feedback I’ve been getting on the blog’s new look has been great. So far, everyone likes the change.
Is it me or is everyone feeling as though this has been a VERY, VERY long winter? It was so blustery cold today that Gavin and Patty weren’t eager to go out unless they absolutely had to go. I’m ready for the warm weather to get here and stay for more than a day or two.
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Back into the swing of things
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Dear Hubby’s mother is showing marked improvement each day, much to his joy and relief. She’s a fiesty old gal. We have no idea how long Mom’s recovery will take, but she’s already getting antsy to get out of there, so I’m betting on her. She’s determined and working hard in PT.
I’ve managed to do some writing the last couple of days now that we are settling into a routine. Housekeeping chores are getting done too, they suffered during the uproar. This also means I’ll soon be back into full swing on the blog .
The pups are getting used to the ‘new’ schedule and don’t seem to mind the changes. They’ve begun to listen for DH’s truck to pull into the drive in the afternoon, and they let me know he’s home.
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Glorious sleep and other updates.
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Without the E-collar on, Gavin slept peacefully last night. I finally slept in my own bed after spending the last 14 days downstairs on the couch or in my lounge chair so I could keep an eye/ear on him during the night. Boy, did I sleep!
Dear Hubby’s mother seems to be doing well. He goes over to the Rehab hospital every day and stays with her while she is doing her PT. He says they have her walking on a strange contraption rather than the parallel bars, her shoulder pain is improving, and she gets stronger each day.
Patty is so happy to have her brother’s company again that her tail didn’t stop wagging all day even when she was napping on the couch with her Daddy.
Things are slowly getting back to normal around here.
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Fast forward to Rehab hospital
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When Dear Hubby talked to his Mom yesterday morning, she was paranoid and incoherent. During the night, they’d given her blood and she’d pulled out the IV.
Today when he saw her, she was lucid and quite chipper. Much to our surprise, they moved her to the rehab hospital late this afternoon. It seems too soon to me especially after the condition she was in yesterday.
We have no idea how long she’ll be in there but at least it’s very close to our house so DH won’t have to drive as much.
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