Something crawled under our front porch and died recently.  We think it was a bird that fell out of a nest in the front yard or perhaps a squirrel or a rabbit.  First, we noticed a horrific smell outside the house.  Secondly, we noticed a whirling clouds of flies.  We followed the flies and the smell to an inaccessible portion of the porch.  The ( Read more... )

I drove Lucy to another city and gave her to the Boston Terrier rescue lady.  Her new owners are coming to get her on Saturday and then she'll get to go live in Kansas City.  Lucy got spayed this morning.  I asked the rescue lady to call and tell me how it went, and she did.  Everything went fine and Lucy is drowsy and recovering tonight at the ( Read more... )

There are two extremely whiny pre-teen boys that live in the house behind us.  Since it is summer, they are always outside whining at each other in their high pre-pubescent voices.  This evening, I overheard them having a hilariously loud argument ( Read more... )

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We went to the veterinarian clinic where my friend works this evening and picked up a little scrawny, frightened Boston Terrier and took her home with us.  My friend gave me more information about the previous owners and said that, "they were the type of people who should not be allowed to have pets."  We can see the little dog's ribs.  She doesn' ( Read more... )

We have a 2nd floor patio at our house that is surrounded by a rotted wood railing. After moving in, we discovered that the previous owners had patched the rotten parts with fake wood filler and slapped a coat of paint over the whole thing to disguise the decay ( Read more... )

I managed to somehow rock straight A's again this semester ( Read more... )

Every evening after dinner we go for a nice long walk with the dogs. Lately we have been walking across the agriculture college campus near our house. There are some horses that live on the campus and we like to visit them on our walks. At first the dogs were suspicious of the horses and bounced at the ends of their leashes, yipping while the ( Read more... )

We are due for really bad weather (thunderstorms and possible tornados). I watched the sky start to turn black and green and decided to get the dogs outside for some play time before the storm started. We were outside for 10 minutes, playing fetch with a drool soaked tennis ball when I noticed something red in the grass. I touched the red stuff ( Read more... )