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

As you may have guessed, the two grandkids have infected me with some life threatening disease, which is likely to prove fatal. I have been fighting for every hour of consciousness when I feel my candle of life flickering, but I am tempted to let it go out because I suffer less when asleep. My day night/cycle is all screwed up now because this weekend I slept like a polar bear until I couldn’t sleep any more. Then, I lay in bed trying to keep from biting the head off anyone who irritated me by... Sign in to see full entry.

I have a theory that mankind could wipe most contagious diseases from the earth, by banning children from gathering at schools, churches, shopping malls, Chucky Cheese’s, playgrounds, McDonald’s, etc. for a month or so. Each year the two grandkids bring home a variety of diseases they caught from other children, and then spread them to everyone that comes within a hundred yards of them. This happens several times yearly. One of these times, a mutated bug could fatally infect ME! It is time to... Sign in to see full entry.

Super Tuesday has come and passed, and I was looking forward to getting past all the campaign talk. Especially after John Stewart called yesterday, “Super hump day.” I must have heard him wrong, I thought that he had said, “ Super Hump ” day! Disappointment is an expected occurrence in all lives, but it is hard to take, anyway. I wish the writer’s strike would end because John Stewart had led me down the garden path, with his ill-considered words. He really needs his writers back! Is everybody... Sign in to see full entry.

Whatever you do, avoid at all costs, anyone your friends call an “NF!” Many years ago, I asked a friend who had recently broken up with his girlfriend, if it would be okay if I were to ask his ex out. He told me, “It’s all right with me, but you should be forewarned, that she is an “NF!” I was not familiar with the term, but I did not want to appear dumb, so I said, “Is there any other kind?” He laughed and said, “Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.” After his ex had made me a lot sadder but... Sign in to see full entry.

Today the weather forecast was for six to nine inches of snow in our area. Before the snow fell there was time to take my little canine companion for a walk in the woods behind our house. Baby knows exactly where we are going, having made the trek many times, and he insists on leading the way. I insist that he stays with me, because he spooks the wildlife before I can see the denizens of the woods, the purpose of our walk. He blasts through brush, runs ahead far out of sight, and wonders what is... Sign in to see full entry.

Strat was writing about how we humans put so much importance on the dead protein that we call hair. It’s ridiculous that we obsess about, cry about, spend billions cutting, curling, coloring, crimping, shaving, straightening, shampooing, spraying, transplanting, our hair, and it has no purpose or use at all but cosmetic. At least most of our other body parts have a useful purpose, teeth for instance. What is this thing we have about hair? We love it as long as it grows where we think that it... Sign in to see full entry.

Yesterday, the two resident grandkids were battling with each other, as they always do. I was doing my best to tune out their angry words to hear what I was listening to on the T.V. Suddenly, Marilyn began laughing about something that she had just heard D.J. say. I had already heard him scream, “I HATE you IVY! We ALL HATE YOU! Get your stuff and MOVE OUT!" After that, I had to smile, but I adjusted the T.V. volume to drown the combatants out. D.J. continued to stew for a minute longer and then... Sign in to see full entry.

Is it also hard for others to believe that Great Britain was the country from which long-ago ancestors seeded our continent with pioneering emigrants from their “Old World” country, Great Britain? I have heard it said, that the United States and Great Britain are friendly, allied countries, separated only by an ocean and a common language. I wonder why then, the Brits speak “ English ” with a heavy, thick accent. If both countries began with common stock, speaking the same tongue, wouldn’t we... Sign in to see full entry.

For the third day this week, The Arenac County Council on Aging, where I toil, sweat, bleed and cry, ( usually in that order) is closed due to inclement weather. DAMN! I had nearly finished composing a blog in which I spouted off about being forced to drive in artic conditions, likely to kill my truck and/or me. Being sent off on what is probably a suicide mission by a heartless administrator is something everyone can identify with, I am sure. Now I don’t know what to complain about. I’ve... Sign in to see full entry.

Well, here I sit at home, denied the three-hour respite of going to work. I was really looking forward to a break from yesterdays crying and moaning, yelling and threatening and all the other infantile and adolescent behavior. Now I will probably do all of it again today! I HATE setting a bad example for the three children (Marilyn, Ivy & D.J.) but they really know where all my buttons are and they take turns pushing them. They delight in doing this whenever I cannot escape being confined in the... Sign in to see full entry.