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

Has everyone heard about the moron who was planning to blow up a lot of stuff and many people with bombs he was in the process of making last week, in his home? He was arrested before he could even finish making all of his bombs. Granted, anyone planning to murder large numbers of innocent people and create havoc and terror is deranged, but how stupid do you have to be to be stopped BEFORE you could bomb anything or anyone? Working backwards to the source of a bombing, after the fact of it... Sign in to see full entry.

I have a theory, that if I wasn’t so determined to never tell a dirty black lie, for the rest of my life, I could manage to B.S. and lie my way into most jobs and request two weeks of settling in time, before a first job performance evaluation. In two weeks, I think that I could perform as well as a graduate of a school designed to turn out employees ready to be up to speed, quickly. Remember that I said MOST jobs. Some professions require the kind of learned muscle memory and quick adaptability... Sign in to see full entry.

Aside from resetting my sleep/wake cycle, after enjoying a four-day weekend, I will probably need to be retrained when I go back to work on Tuesday. It is a good thing that I am a quick study, with the exception of understanding women, something that I doubt will ever happen. My coming up with a unified theory of quantum physics is more likely to occur, than my understanding the mysterious workings of the female mind. Only women understand each other, and that leaves half of the world’s... Sign in to see full entry.

As expected, Ivy and D.J. returned to Michigan, yesterday. As they came in the house, I told them, “You won’t believe what happened to Bonkers!” Ivy said, “We know. She died.” I gave her a strange look and told her, “That’s what we thought at first! It turns out that Bonkers climbed into the clothes dryer for a nap, and Marilyn stuffed some shirts in on top of her and turned the dryer on. When your Grandma found her later, she was dried out like a raisin. Bonkers shrunk! I managed to bring her... Sign in to see full entry.

Is there such a creature as a naturally dwarf cat, one that hasn’t been artificially bred down in size, by us humans? Aside from an inexhaustible reservoir of playfulness and curiosity, the new kitten seems wise beyond her weeks. She appears to know so much for such a tiny and young animal! In one day, the kitten that can hide inside my coffee mug had figured out that she is safe here with us, and welcome to join our family unit. She knows that Baby would never hurt her although he threatens to,... Sign in to see full entry.

Coming up with a name that fits a new pet is always one of the hardest things to do. A name has to be perfect or it must be discarded. The new calico kitten appears to have been sewn together from scraps of five different colored furs, like one of my grandmother’s crazy quilts. “ Crazy ” would be redundant. Cats, especially females, are all at least a little bit crazy, when they are kittens. Bonkers was named after my ex, after the ex spent a couple of weeks locked up in a rubber walled room. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Today as I was making my meal delivery rounds, I got out of my truck and heard a panicky feline moaning, bereft of any hope, from nearby bushes. As I walked towards the door, I saw a TINY little calico kitten that burst from the brush and raced me to the doorway. I went inside and the nice old gentleman (pronounced coot ) who lives there was waiting in the doorway, wielding his cane menacingly. I looked down and saw that he was trying his best to mash the kitten like a “pavement pizza cat,” with... Sign in to see full entry.

I used to deliver pizzas in Ann Arbor, Michigan, many years ago. Another guy I know, also delivered pizzas, for several years in Au Gres Michigan. I have told this story so many times, that I am not sure if the hero of this story was me, or Dave Stewart. Probably him, but I have spoken of the events I am about to share with you, so many times that it might have been me too. I will tell the story as though it happened to me, even if it didn’t. When one is searching for an address in a series of... Sign in to see full entry.

Marilyn’s two grandkids will be back in Michigan, this week. Ivy and D.J. hated spending the summer in North Carolina. Marilyn has spent a lot of time sorting clothing, clearing away a lot of tanglefoot from hallways, and the living room and the kitchen area and now I know what color the small couch is. When Marilyn was talking on the phone with Ivy, I asked to speak with her. I told Ivy that by the time they got here, I would have things pretty well straightened out and cleared up around here.... Sign in to see full entry.

The landscapes of my youth have changed so profoundly in my absence that they now exist only in my memories. The dirt and the rocks are still there, but the trees, ponds, fields, animals, and friends who roamed my small world with me are all gone or so changed, as to be unrecognizable now. Where stood the magnificent ancient shagbark hickory tree in which our tree house was built, now stands somebody’s home or an auto parts store. Our frog pond has not existed for generations, now it has been... Sign in to see full entry.