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

I am never prescient about anything in life. Every change that occurs always surprises me. This is why I wish that I could shake the feeling, that something bad is about to happen. This is so unlike me! We can all sometimes predict things successfully, but this comes from our experience and knowledge of human behavior. Those who make enough predictions of future events will sometimes make a lucky (?) shot in the dark. Any correct prediction will be remembered and the ones that missed the mark by... Sign in to see full entry.

Last evening Ivy and her Girl Scout troop attended a Karaoke party that she was ambivalent about attending. Marilyn told her that she would enjoy it and would be a good singer if she chose to try singing. She was afraid that she would make a mistake and be laughed at. Then Marilyn told her, “Grampa sang a couple of songs long ago, on a Karaoke machine in Au Gres and he wasn’t afraid.” Ivy looked at her skeptically and asked me if it was true. I replied that it was indeed true but that I stepped... Sign in to see full entry.

Do you think that UFOs are real? I am a skeptic as far as things that I have to just take on faith (religion, superstition) or someone’s word, without physical or eyewitness (MINE) evidence. Things like Bigfoot, Nessie, Chupa Cabra, Unicorns, Satyrs, Sea Serpents, ghosts, etc. are certainly mythical entities in today’s world because no physical evidence has been found of their existence in the form of fecal droppings, skeletons, corpses, or anything but sightings or photos, which cannot be... Sign in to see full entry.

When I see our friendly neighborhood opossum, “Pat the 'possum,” leave the pump house feeding station, it has always been dark but last night she was there while it was still light out. I had always assumed that she booked off into the night upon being busted by me when I opened the door. Last night I watched to see what direction she left by. To my surprise, I saw that Pat stopped behind a box by the shrouding of the house, a flight of only 10 feet or so. I decided that Baby ought to have a... Sign in to see full entry.

There is something seriously different about the turkey that I prepared for the Thanksgiving meal, this year. Each year we are aware that turkey contains triptophan because several hours after eating it, we become a bit drowsy. With this year’s bird, the effect is so powerful that both Marilyn and I cannot stay awake beyond a half hour, after eating some of it. Just eating a small amount of my famous smoked turkey knocks us out, very, very quickly and I’ve had extremely weird, distressing... Sign in to see full entry.

I really hope turkey isn’t habit-forming! It has a whole bunch of that triptophan stuff in it and it really kicks my ass. In order to make room for eight people to have places to sit and eat yesterday, I put boxes of stuff that was seemingly everywhere, in the way, onto the bed and the floor of the bedroom, and then just shut the door. Out of sight, out of mind. After eating a plate of turkey and all the trimmings and the family guests had left, I began to feel drugged to such an extent that I... Sign in to see full entry.

When I was a kid and I heard that someone was a millionaire, I was suitably awed. More than $1,000,000 was a staggering amount of wealth for one person to have. Years later, I heard that Howard Hughes was the worlds second richest person with a net worth estimated to be in excess of TWO BILLION dollars. He was second only to the sultan of Brunei, an oil rich potentate. We almost never heard the word billion and to tell you the truth, numbers that high only applied to things like bacteria or... Sign in to see full entry.

Here are some things that you learn by getting older, and learning them makes you wiser. It’s also true, the other way around. Does this sound about as clear as mud? See, you’re already getting smarter! An entrepneurial boy brought a plastic bag with small round pellets in it, to his school. He offered to sell one of them to anyone with a dollar. Every prospective customer asked him, “What makes these things worth a dollar?” He told them, “These are ‘ smart pills!’ If you are worried about... Sign in to see full entry.

In order to make it clear that I’m not just picking on women, I will tell a joke about each gender, today. Two sweet little old ladies had planned a day of shopping at a local mall. As they were parking in the lot, the woman who was driving looked at her lifelong friend in the passenger seat and asked her to again face forward for a moment. Her mystified friend did so, and then asked why on earth, her companion had wanted her to look forward. The driver told her that it appeared that there was... Sign in to see full entry.

I feel like crying! I was depending on receiving my first social security check this week! Since it didn’t arrive on Friday or Saturday, and since I was told by two different government employees that since I was born in October, my first check would be mailed to me on the 2 nd Wednesday of November. This was on the fourteenth, this year, and since my house loan payment is due to be taken from my empty (! )checking account on or about the 22 nd of this month, (three or less days from now) I... Sign in to see full entry.