Nov 10 - 16

You know when you get in bed, ready to sleep, and something goes wrong, driving you crazy? Well, I have a story. My wife and I were just getting into bed when we heard her electric toothbrush start buzzing. Odd, I thought, but I got up to see if the dogs were brushing their teeth; it was just buzzing. I took it off its charger stand, but it continued to annoy. I tried turning it off, but it still buzzed. I attempted to take it apart but couldn't. I wrapped it in a paper towel and placed it in the tub, but it seemed even louder. I held it for a while, hoping the battery would die, but to no avail. Finally, I went downstairs, outside, and dropped the buzzing toothbrush into the large gopher hole I had complained about. I hoped to get a picture of him with his shiny teeth, but the next morning, I saw the toothbrush all chewed up.

Nov 3 - 9

Okay, so my wife told me today about a story of two dogs that fit ours just perfectly. One dog (Cooper) has an old soul, very calm and mellow. He obeys orders and always follows commands. Then, the other dog (Phoebe) is a crackhead. She obeys no commands, eats anything she can get her mouth on, barks at every bird that flies by the window, runs from you constantly, and howls like it is Halloween constantly.

I didn't even know we had a dealer in the neighborhood.

Oct 27 - Nov 2

First of all, what is the hardest thing to do in the world?

I never should have mentioned that I would have a catastrophe to write about because that let the universe know, and so it happened.

My son's worker was sick on Monday, so he had to come over to our house for the day. I immediately reminded him to make sure that Phoebe didn't get a hold of any of his earbuds. Well, next thing I know, my wife is chasing Phoebe trying to get something out of her mouth. At that point, we couldn't tell what it was, but everything appeared normal until the evening when Phoebe went into distress. We got through the night and found an emergency vet the next morning. We asked them to do an X-ray, but they couldn't tell what it was, just that something was in there. We told them to do the surgery, and $4400.00 later, my son got his earbud back. I didn't find out if it still worked.

The hardest thing in the world is to try and give a dog pills because they know what is coming, even though you lie to them.