Oct 2 - 8

Ok, I have seen some weird things in my life time but this one my take the cake. 

So Cooper and I are walking down the street where we live. We live out in the country so we see things you may not see near the city. So as we are walking I hear migrating birds flying over. They are usually very high in the sky and it took a while for me to locate them. When I do see them, I can’t tell what kind of birds they were but they were about 100 of them flying South and flying in perfect formation, and I am guessing at least a 1000 feet up. 

So I tell Cooper, “ Look at those birds”.  He sits down on the road and looks up at them and starts barking at them. I mean he is barking at these birds up in the sky. Ok, the birds apparently hear him and stop flying south and now start flying in a big circle. The sound they made has now changed, I swear they are now trying to communicate with Cooper. After a  minute of them flying around they get in formation and start flying East, and after another minute they correct themselves and fly South again. I guess Cooper, must have some magical telepathic powers.


Sep 25 - Oct 1

So in order to train Cooper better, my wife got a shock collar. Cooper has a difficult time with cars on the road and dogs on tvand no matter what we do and say he goes ballistic and wants to attack them. Attacking the dogs on tv is annoying but not a big deal. Attacking a moving car would be disastrous. So with the collar my wife has been able to train him. She was talking to me when she commented how well this device works and how well Cooper responds to all her commands. She feels like now Cooper is much more manageable.

I look over and she is holding the shock collar and I notice she is looking at me and smiling as if to say, just think how much easier the house work would be if your husband listened to every command?"

I immediately commented that I was going to go scrub the kitchen floor.

Sep 11 - 17

Folks, my brain cells are depleted so I found this story from 2015 back when we had giant lizards in the house and I used to have to go buy crickets to feed them.

I know you are tired of hearing these stories, so you may not want to read any further. 

The things I am still learning in my sixties, just amaze me. For instance, crickets don’t chirp until they reach a certain age. Now that the lizards are bigger I order the bigger (older) crickets, and so they all chirp. The other thing is they can throw their chirp so when they get out in the house they are extremely hard to locate. 

When you have several crickets around the house it makes it very challenging to keep the wife content. I have suggested she have a glass of wine so as not to be annoyed by the sound. She suggested...oh that is right, this is a PG blog. I can’t print what she suggested.