Apr 22 - 28

Ok so my wife and I are in our bedroom and cooper is going bonkers.

This usually means his ball is under the bed so we both get on our knees looking. No luck, so we start looking under the cabinets. Bingo, I see his ball and I reach in and throw it for him. He just gives me a look and starts barking again. So we both now are lying on the carpet looking for something. Well at the very back of the cabinet looks like another ball. So I get a close hanger and attempt to push it towards my wife.

As I push it over towards her it suddenly disappears. I ask my wife where it is and she has no idea. So now we are looking everywhere when suddenly my wife says “OMG, it’s a bird”.
”What”, I say? 

We had left the door open so Cooper could go out on the deck. Anyway I managed to catch it and let it go.
Cooper gave me a look like what are you doing, that is my toy. Why did you let it go?

Apr 15 - 21

Ok, so if you look up the purpose of the Fire Dept, you will see it’s motto is to protect lives, property and the environment. It does not stipulate human life, just lives. So when I call the Fire Dept to come get a cat out of a tree in front of the restaurant, I expect them to put their motto first.

On Tuesday at the Sunrise Country Waffles, a special needs adult approached me in distress. Apparently her cat got off his leash and got frightened and ran up the tree next to Sunrise Blvd. She was very upset and so I went out there to see what I could do. Well, the cat was about 25 feet up and I had no idea what to do, but I remembered an episode of Andy Griffith and how he was summoned to get the cat down. So I called the Fire Dept. I am probably not to high on their list of favorite businesses any longer. Any way they came out but I expected a big ladder truck, and they just came out with the regular truck. Well, they analyzed the situation and said, “don’t worry, the cat will come down on its own”.

Well that was no fun.

And yes they were right.

Apr 1 - 7

Every year at this time, we take the kids down to Santa Cruz and then to the Boardwalk. The problem is, we are now in our seventies and it has become much harder, and with a son with special needs we find ourselves doing the same thing we have been doing for the last 20 years.  By the way the Boardwalk has gotten much more expensive and the wait for the rides has gotten much longer. My son only rides certain rides and the plan is to offer him a special treat of being able to buy anything at the store there if we can get out of there sooner. This form of bribery has worked in the past but unfortunately the kid has gotten smarter and knows the system and we now have to pretty much give him the world. This is ok, my wife and I have saved just for these kind of emergencies, so If we can get out of there, we gladly would give up our retirement savings just to get home so we can sit on the couch and watch tv.

Mar 25 - 31

When a dog marks something, is he telling everyone and everything this is his territory, or is he just saying this is my property, don’t mess with it?

So the other day I took Cooper out for a walk down the neighborhood. On the way back I ran into my neighbor and so we talked for a while so I picked Cooper up. About 10 minutes in, he says to me “Did you see that?”. I asked back, “See what?”. He said look down at your pants.    

So, I guess I am Cooper’s property and I wasn’t supposed to talk that long.