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

Marilyn’s birthday and Valentine’s Day are only one day apart. I asked her if she would prefer flowers, (a dozen roses) or to be treated to eating out at a newly opened restaurant, one with a variety of ethnic dishes. (Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Korean, seafood, etc.) She chose the restaurant. It had more than 300 kinds of food and we enjoyed a nice evening out. I sampled many of my favorites and a few new taste treats, as did Marilyn. Among my favorites were; crab legs, parmesan-stuffed... Sign in to see full entry.

I just woke up from a dream in which I discovered that I had developed a large 10#, ugly hair-covered growth on my back! This was so distressing that it awoke me from a sound sleep. Imagine my relief, when I realized that while I slept, Baby had jumped up into bed and snuggled up next to my back. I have incorporated the sounds of thunderstorms and the children’s battles into my dreams before, and was transported to the front-line of a war zone while I slept, in the recent past. Another time I... Sign in to see full entry.

When I clicked onto Blogit last night, I got a surprising notice that I had written as many blogs as I am allowed to under their rules for my account! HUH? Is this something new? I don’t recall reading anything about being limited to writing only a maximum number of blogs, when I signed up nearly a year ago. It is possible that I missed noticing such a restriction, when I was trying to figure out how to become a blogger but I really don’t think so. I suspect that this is a way of forcing a poor... Sign in to see full entry.

When I was a young boy, back in the 50’s, I marveled at the enormity of, and fundamental change that had occurred in the span of a single, long lifetime. I clearly remember sitting in rapt silence, listening to my great grandmother regale me with true first-person accounts of traveling westward to the wild frontier of Ohio (!) with her family, in a covered wagon. She lived in a house made by piling layer atop layer of sod, until the walls were high enough to place roof spars over them and then... Sign in to see full entry.

I really wonder what is the deal with so many men, being obviously obsessed with women’s breasts? Breasts must represent something of enormous importance to these apparently normal people, that I just cannot see. Do not get me wrong, I can see that breasts are attractive and important and are admittedly among the first things that I notice about a woman, when I first meet one. But what is SO special about these secondary sexual characteristics, that makes men seem to lose their minds when they... Sign in to see full entry.

I am thinking about how I am going to make a complete and permanent change in my circumstances and retake control of my life and where I will spend the next part of it. I can no longer live in my current situation, because I am unable to endure the daily verbal and psychological abuse, threats and erratic behavior of the severely damaged family with which I now live. This is not something that I consider lightly and without much, much heart-wrenching consideration. I really care about the people... Sign in to see full entry.

This is a reposting of a reader favorite about superstition, a playful cat, and beleiving the evidence of your own eyes. I hope you enjoy it. Guy One day I saw Bonkers playing with a lace of my boot. She really enjoys this, particularly when the lace hangs overhead and she can roll onto her back and attack from beneath. I placed the boot on the coffee table, on top of a pencil with the lace draped over the pencil. It was perfectly positioned to swing around tantalizingly above her as she slept... Sign in to see full entry.

How can anyone call our form of government a democracy, when some people’s vote counts and other’s do not? The two national parties regularly manipulate voting district boundaries, in order to artificially put a thumb on the scales of our population’s ability have a real voice in government. The parties punish states that defy their rules, by barring candidates from ballots, disenfranchising voters by refusing to let delegates from Michigan and Florida participate in the process. What is the... Sign in to see full entry.

A beagle has won the “best of show” award for the first time in well over a century. Anyone who has followed beagles through fencerows and brush patches rabbit hunting, listening to their guttural and melodious progress through the tangles as they slowly push the rabbits ahead of them, holds a special place in their hearts for this breed. Beagles and rabbits were born for each other. Millions of them are cherished family pets, even if hunting isn’t something the family members do. I’ve never... Sign in to see full entry.

CNN asked a number of people if they would care to live to be 100 years of age and I was surprised that about half of them said that they wouldn’t want to, including John Roberts the news commentator. According to the premise of the segment, this will become much more common, soon. This put me in mind of the time that Jay Leno asked his bandleader the same question. Kevin told him “No way! Who would want to live to be!00?” Jay told him “Just ask someone who is 99!” Last night I dreamed that I... Sign in to see full entry.