Day: September 10, 2024

Evening Plans.

What are you doing this evening?

This evening, as all evening will be simpleI am seventy-three, my husband seventy-five. We will have dinner at home, read or watch television, and be in bed by ten. I can never predict whether Sleep will come, so I may get up and write. I am not a television fan, so I never turn it on. We lead a very predictable life.

Izzy, the Runaway

We’ve had our little dog, Izzy, less than a year. Our former dog, Buzzy had died not long before. Our big dog, Croc, was lost without his friend. My niece, a rural mail carrier, called us about Izzy. It seems a lady on her route had several dogs. Izzy strayed up to her house, begging to be let in. She was kind enough to rescue him but busied herself hunting him a new home.

He is adorable but almost instantly we discovered his little secret. He’s a runner! That’s likely how he got to his foster home to start with. He’d not been with us two hours. He took the opportunity to scoot out the door and run, just a streak of white.

I followed calling him but he was gone. I got in my truck to look for him but he was nowhere to be seen. I was sick with dread fearing I’d never see him again. Eventually, I saw him resting on a doorstep, exhausted. I scooped him up and brought him home. He managed to run a couple of more times, despite our vigilance. I suspect he’d run today, given the chance.

I apologize for three lower images. I erroneously inserted them and can’t get them out.

Jokes

Someone just told me this… it’s scary how much sense it made.

A programmer walking by a stream see’s a frog. The frog calls out “hey! I’m not really a frog. If you kiss me I’ll turn into a beautiful princess!”

The programmer looks down smiles, picks up the frog, puts it into his pocket, and keeps walking.

The frog then calls out “hey, look if you kiss me I will not only turn into a princess but I’ll stay with you for a whole week!”.

The programmer pulls the frog out of his pocket looks at it, smiles and puts it back into his pocket. Then the frog calls out “hey, If you kiss me I will not only turn into a princess and stay with you for a whole week, I will do anything you want !!”

The programmer pulls the frog out of his pocket looks at it, smiles and puts it back into his pocket. Then the frog gets angry and yells out “hey, what the hell is going on?.. I told you I would turn into a princess stay with you for a week and do anything you want me to do?.. what else do you want???”

The programmer pulls the frog out of his pocket looks down, smiles and says “I’m a programmer, I don’t really need a girlfriend, but a talking frog is just  bad ass!!”

Fish, Like Guests Start to Smell in Three Days (or less)

smellyfish2  I hope my prospective hosts don’t read this before I get there.  I will have limited internet access for the next few days, but I will get back to you.

I am an excellent guest.  We went to visit relatives this weekend, but I don’t ever expect to be invited back.

I pulled bathroom curtain loose while showering.  When I called Bud to fix it, We had to get through the requisite question first.  “Why did you pull it loose?”

“I was kicking at the toilet.  I intended to break it and the mirror over the sink, but this is all I managed, for the moment.  I am so disappointed in myself.  Can you fix it anyway?  I’ll get to the rest of it as soon as I can.”

Grudgingly, he put the window curtain back up.

Later, we made a little trip into town to pick up a few things at the grocery store.  Buzzy, our dog, and Bud’s aunt had gotten quite friendly.  She said he could stay with her since she was going to nap while we were gone.  I was a little concerned how that might go.  Hurrying back, I dreaded asking, “Did he do okay?”

“Did you see that movie, ‘Call of the Wild’?”  As soon as you left, he howled about every thirty seconds the whole time you were gone.”