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

I was trying to explain something obvious to Marilyn, and she was doing her best to NOT get it. My normally inexhaustible store of patience unexpectedly ran completely out. I asked her, “How can you say that? Are you ignorant or just apathetic?” She said, “I don’t know and I don’t CARE!” Actually, she said something closer to, “I don’t know and I don’t give a bleep!” Anyway, she didn’t realize that she had just turned me into a straight man, against my will. Don’t you just HATE that? I’ll... Sign in to see full entry.

Do you also like “Mind control, with Derrin Brown? What I particularly like, is that he explains how his illusions are accomplished. I read a book written by, “The Amazing Kreskin,” in which he asked an audience member to come on stage. His point this night, was to prove how suggestible we humans really are. He even announced that this was what he would demonstrate, before he asked for an audience member to assist him onstage. Kreskin asked his volunteer several innocuous questions, which left... Sign in to see full entry.

Yesterday, when I said that I’d been canning tomatoes, Mademoiselle pointed out that the term should be “jarring.” I’ll bet that most people don’t know that the “can” was invented more than fifty years before the can-opener was invented. Instructions that came with the canned goods, said to use a chisel to open them up. What did you think? That there developed a fifty year backlog of canned goods, waiting for someone to come up with a way to open the cans? Early canned goods were contained in... Sign in to see full entry.

The two grandbrats keep trying to sneak glasses of pop or milk into our bedroom even though they know we don’t allow it. They watch cartoons, non-stop on the bedroom TV and eat cookies, chips and just about anything else on our bed, probably figuring that the crumbs exfoliate us while we sleep. We grownups know what happens when liquid gets balanced on a waterbed. The kids never doubt that they’ll be able to keep their drink from tipping over, we know they won’t. I keep telling them that if I... Sign in to see full entry.

Could a true telepath stay married? I don’t think so. If we knew what other people thought, population control would be unnecessary, murder would be an everyday occurrence throughout society. I’ve probably saved my own life many times by NOT saying what I was really thinking. Everyone presents a different face to the people in their lives, than the face that silently speaks to them from the mirror. By that, I don’t mean that we cannot be honest with our friends and family, only that honesty... Sign in to see full entry.

For at least eight days I’ve been trying to log back into Blogit, without success, because I promised Offy that I wouldn’t ask her for more help, after I asked her how I could change categories, the last time I did it. Not knowing what I was doing, I signed off without knowing what that meant. Then, the next time I tried signing in, I didn’t know my password, to sign back in. Yes, I’m an idiot. To make matters worse, my computer hiccupped and lost all but one of my password letters, to connect... Sign in to see full entry.

On TV I heard that a tree produces enough oxygen for a family of four. Oh, fine! Thank you TV people. Now whenever I cut down a tree, I’m suffocating a whole FAMILY! Way to pile on the guilt because I’m trying to keep my family warm this winter. Marilyn NEEDS to keep our house above 85 degrees at all times, something that tortures me, no end. It’s like living in a sauna and I spend half the winter out on the front steps trying to breathe. Having enough wood cut and stacked to keep her... Sign in to see full entry.

It’s Labor Day weekend and summer’s over. The kid’s forever vacation is over, too. Trust me, they didn’t think it lasted forever, only their grandparents did! Now I get to hear that most hated invention of some sadistic insomniac, the ALARM CLOCK (!) each weekday morning. That and all the complaining and yelling and crying and threats of mayhem cost me sleep and make my throat sore. Usually, I’m not the only one doing it either. It is a zoo here and you know who the animals are, I assume. Ivy... Sign in to see full entry.

Today I was privileged to see off a fine lady, in fine style. A memorable service was performed by the man that she played the organ for, as he also served their congregation for more than thirty years, as leader and eloquent preacher. He made it clear that her loss struck him as deeply as it did all the others who knew and loved her and will miss her, always. When my time comes, about 2060, I hope to be lauded as lavishly as she was, today. That, and the PYRAMID and the buried terra-cotta army.... Sign in to see full entry.

Sometime in the small hours of this morning, I passed 1000 “page reads”, an unknown goal, until I realized that it was about to happen. I think Riri put me over the top. BLESS YOU RIRI! This milestone has taken me all summer to pass. I admit to being pleased that five friends clicked on my site 200 times EACH! That said, I think that I’m going to try writing in another category, at least for a while. I began this whole experiment in the “Pets” aisle. On about my seventh day I got my first read... Sign in to see full entry.