Monday, October 11, 2004
Dog days, and other out of time experiences
Yes, another exciting weekend in the bag, and I have the exhaustion to prove it!
Saturday, every dog on the place went insane. Corky, the goofy Lab mix we are dog-sitting for Damaris and fam, first broke the hook on his chain, and then after I fixed THAT, he pulled off his collar to continue his mad rompz. Once that situation was under control, the four dogs outside discovered a way to get out of their turn-out pen. Twice. (Then we found out the next day our trigger-happy neighbor had thought they were a pack and considered shooting them, until his daughter recognized them. Not that they called us to say they were out or anything. No, it was Climber tattling on them that alerted me.)
Actually, Climber did not go insane--she is always that way, so it would be pointless. And Cubby-pup, our other dog-sittee, was only insanely cute. Although *I* went briefly mental when she made a little puppy mistake (not a big deal) and then Mike did not see it and tracked it all through the house (BIG deal).
In other Saturday news, we attended a meet-and-greet picnic for Wes McKinley, who is running for State Rep from our area, and got free organically raised hamburgers and a wagon ride. I also got to pass him a check from Democracy for America and talk on the radio. I just love being generous with other people's money!
Saturday night we went to see Shark Tale, one of Mike's must see movies this season. It was actually okay, about a B-. In fact, I liked it a little bit better than Finding Nemo. The Rasta jellyfish enforcers were my favorites, and the end credits are a stitch. If you have kid entertaining on your plate, you could do a lot worse.
Today I worked hard at being Productive. I don't think I mentioned this yet, but HOWARD DEAN!!!!!!!!!! is coming to Denver for a quick fund-raising thing on Thursday. I am helping long distance with a few bits of the project, plus these, as the Democracy For Colorado's resident eBay wonk:
Clicky
I am very very very very very very excited about getting to actually meet him in person! What a perfect 4 days before my birthday present!
More squeeeing about this in the next few days!
Saturday, every dog on the place went insane. Corky, the goofy Lab mix we are dog-sitting for Damaris and fam, first broke the hook on his chain, and then after I fixed THAT, he pulled off his collar to continue his mad rompz. Once that situation was under control, the four dogs outside discovered a way to get out of their turn-out pen. Twice. (Then we found out the next day our trigger-happy neighbor had thought they were a pack and considered shooting them, until his daughter recognized them. Not that they called us to say they were out or anything. No, it was Climber tattling on them that alerted me.)
Actually, Climber did not go insane--she is always that way, so it would be pointless. And Cubby-pup, our other dog-sittee, was only insanely cute. Although *I* went briefly mental when she made a little puppy mistake (not a big deal) and then Mike did not see it and tracked it all through the house (BIG deal).
In other Saturday news, we attended a meet-and-greet picnic for Wes McKinley, who is running for State Rep from our area, and got free organically raised hamburgers and a wagon ride. I also got to pass him a check from Democracy for America and talk on the radio. I just love being generous with other people's money!
Saturday night we went to see Shark Tale, one of Mike's must see movies this season. It was actually okay, about a B-. In fact, I liked it a little bit better than Finding Nemo. The Rasta jellyfish enforcers were my favorites, and the end credits are a stitch. If you have kid entertaining on your plate, you could do a lot worse.
Today I worked hard at being Productive. I don't think I mentioned this yet, but HOWARD DEAN!!!!!!!!!! is coming to Denver for a quick fund-raising thing on Thursday. I am helping long distance with a few bits of the project, plus these, as the Democracy For Colorado's resident eBay wonk:
Clicky
I am very very very very very very excited about getting to actually meet him in person! What a perfect 4 days before my birthday present!
More squeeeing about this in the next few days!
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