Guy's blog about life with pets in northern mich.

I am pretty sure that my cat is smoking crack! Crack is cocaine, right? Coke is an upper, and she is wound as tight as a nine-day clock! She chases her tail, shadow, beetles, ants, moths, imaginary water buffalo, elk, deer, wooly mammoths, and REAL animals like Baby, the kids, and Marilyn, all with equal pleasure. Like her former incarnation “ Bonkers,” my new kitten knows instinctively, that I am to be treated with the utmost degree of reverence, respect, and fear, just like ALL mothers. She... Sign in to see full entry.

I am at a complete loss to understand why the political polls have the Democratic and Republican presidential preferences SO close to being dead even! As you probably already know, I don’t like either party and plan to vote for the Libertarian party candidate just to add ONE more vote to the number of people who are as disgusted with what the major parties have done to us. Since nearly the whole country is too dimwitted or lazy to implement an alternative to the two party system and the vast... Sign in to see full entry.

If you ever want to catch a boy’s undivided attention, just say the word “ firecracker.” Boys all live by the philosophy that says, “ A firecracker is a terrible thing to waste. ” Some people, would profligately blow off a whole string (!) of firecrackers, all at once instead of unwinding the fuses and separating each precious firecracker from its brothers, so it could be savored and appreciated properly. We boys would scour the area where such wasted opportunity had recently occurred, searching... Sign in to see full entry.

Watched the Discovery channel’s “dinosaur night” and learned about the dino mummy and one guy’s theory that we could actually see living dinosaurs in our own lifetimes, just by manipulating eight genetic codes that determine when bird development processes switch on and off. It is quite widely accepted that birds evolved from the dinosaurs, and one scientist has even grown chicken embryos with reptilian tails to prove that it CAN be done. Tweaking just eight genes could turn back time millions... Sign in to see full entry.

I think that popular musical collaborations, performances, performers, diversity, orchestration, songwriter/composers, and innovation reached the bell curve pinnacle of what for want of a better word, I will call “ perfection,” in the decade between 1968 and 1978. Everybody thinks that roughly every 20 years or so, somebody comes along and screws up the best possible music that will ever exist, and I guess that I am no different. Each end of the “ best possible decade ” blurs by about 5 years on... Sign in to see full entry.

An avid big game hunter booked an Alaskan Grizzly Bear-Hunting trip with an outfitter and guiding service. His guide told the hunter that for nearly ten years, clients had been trying to bag the largest grizzly that anyone in Alaska had ever seen and he offered to put the hunter on a stand site where the worlds largest bear, “ Big Smokey ” had been spotted recently, if the hunter was brave enough to try for him. The hunter jumped at the chance. His guide warned him that the bear had been hunted... Sign in to see full entry.

Since my last recycled joke garnered good reviews, I will give you readers another one. It is over a year since I told it to blogit members and many of you will have missed seeing it, so here goes. I hope you like this one, too. A duck hunter who lived in New York City, intended to go duck hunting in the world famous south-eastern flyway but he didn’t have a boat and retriever. He was visiting friends in the deep south when opening day of duck season opened so he bought a non-resident hunting... Sign in to see full entry.

This joke is one of my favorites because I usually only tell it to a man. Each sex finds a joke to be funny or not for different reasons, because of different perspectives. Men hearing this joke ALWAYS react with a mixture of feelings, often in a sequence of hilarious reactions. A whole gamut of facial expressions, standing then sitting, laughing or retching, giggling then roaring, you get the idea. Women just laugh heartily. I suspect that I understand why each gender reacts the way they do,... Sign in to see full entry.

Reading between the lines of some recent comments on my blogsite, I realize that a lot of my stuff comes across as angry or disappointed or self-pitying. What fun that kind of bile venting stuff must be to read. I will try to be more upbeat when I feel a little funnier, hopefully soon. I went looking for a really good joke to repost when I came across this one. It isn't humorous but you might like it anyway. Maybe this posting explains why getting in a humorous mood is hard to do, some days. Guy... Sign in to see full entry.

I often find that I have hit two keys at once on my keyboard and I have to spend a lot of time correcting what was written because of my clumsiness. Then I see people text messaging on these TINY little phones with a two square inch keyboard, and it is hard to imagine that this is not a much more irritating problem for those who use these small devices. My big clunky keyboard looks a lot better to me now that I think about it. I can hit a nickel with my.22 caliber rifle from 50 yards away, but... Sign in to see full entry.