Rational thought has gone to the dogs!
From the category archives:
The year is 1837 and a farmer was all giddy about the new John Deere steel plough he just bought. It was a lot lighter than his old piece of crap iron plough. Since his back was starting to hurt as he was getting older, he was happy that the lightweight steel plough would take [...]
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Take a good look at the photo above. What do you see? Most of us see a dandelion, a vile weed that should be ripped up, poisoned and killed, stomped out and cursed at. And I did too until just the other day when it occurred to me that I have been looking at dandelions [...]
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I love Cesar Millan*, but he has made my life hell, along with Emeril LaGasse, Mike Holmes, and Alton Brown. But those other guys are a completely different — though not unrelated — post. Maybe later. You see, Cesar has made almost everyone else in the pound an expert on dog behavior with an endless [...]
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I am replacing a folding closet door with a pre-hung door. This involves some framing and sheet-rocking. I’m almost done with the door, thanks for asking. I’m at the last part of the project where I’m putting sheet rock on the inside frame around the door. The closet is about four feet wide by about [...]
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I will die. It is a fact that I can’t overlook, regardless of how much work I put into denying it, putting it off or otherwise just trying to ignore it. So, faced with the fact that I will not be escaping death, I have done the following: – I have written my last blog [...]
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I spent this Sunday morning listening to a fair amount of Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan and a few other more obscure artists who moved and continue to move an entire generation. The first thought I had was “how sad that they will never be able to create another PP&M song.” The second thought [...]
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I was reading my Wall Street Journal today, page after page of blah, blah, blah and then I came across this story on page B8. It stopped me dead in my tracks. I am not following the Winter Olympic Games nor am I really a fan of Bode Miller. I didn’t even read the article, [...]
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Just a quick bark out to Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, who joined us on Twitter a mere 55 minutes ago. Now, we’re just waiting for Bo to get here. Big fans, especially with the “hopey-changey” retort press conference.
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Yesterday, we had a guest speaker – Sarah – come into the DogWalk to motivate us to get out there and walk regularly, even if there is two feet of snow outside, kids home from school everywhere and cars zipping by us as we walk in the street. Then, Charlie noticed that Sarah had some [...]
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I’ve been half French all my life. It’s not something I chose or can change. My mother’s maiden name is Clavette.* Her mother’s maiden name was Pelletier. And that goes back a very long way. We only ended up American because the French apparently were really bad at making compasses and the family ended up [...]
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Fans of the show Ace of Cakes will know what I’m talking about when I say that the Hershey bar cake Duff and crew made earlier last year was a bit of a puzzler as the wrapper was right-side up with Hershey, but the bar pieces inside were upside-down. So, the cake was made with [...]
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