Nov 20 - 26

A few weeks ago I wrote about technology and its good and bad points, so this week I am talking about appliances. So in the last 20 years at our house we have gone through 4 kitchen refrigerators. I don't know it is the control board or the shelves break or what, but we keep replacing them with new refrigerators. In 1997 I bought a used refrigerator for the patio. I bought this from an ex-employee at the time. This fridge has sat outside for 26 years. I usually turn it off when I don't need it, but on Friday to get ready for our annual Practice Thanksgiving party we, i turned it back on. It came on right away and started working. I just wonder if is because they made things better back then or is because there is less technology. In any case it is a keeper. 

With our celebration each year we have a dance party. Cooper gets so jealous of when my wife and I start dancing that he sits there and barks at us until we pick him up. Mind you West Coast Swing requires 2 hands so we constantly have to put him down, but he barks so loud he is louder then the music, so we have to pick him up again. This went on for 15 minutes, now I am thinking, do we get one of those back pack dog carriers?

Nov 13 - 19

Ok folks. I have nothing this week but my friend Doug sent me this story that sounded like it was me.

Here it goes…

So I just get home and My dog is laying on the back deck covered in dirt with a rabbit in her mouth. The Rabbit's not bloody, just dirty. Now, my neighbor's kids raise these Blue Ribbon WINNER Rabbits. I instantly knew it was one of their rabbits. So I took the rabbit away from my dog, I rushed inside, washed all the dirt off it before my neighbors could come home. It was stiff but I heard some ANIMALS play dead when they are AFRAID, I couldn't remember which animals because I was NERVOUS. I took it and placed it back in one of the cage, then I ZOOMED back home. NOT 30 minutes later I hear my neighbors screaming. So I go out and ask them what's wrong?

They tell me their rabbit died three days ago and they buried it but now it's back in the cage.

Nov 6 - 12

Technology is a curse. When it is available it is wonderful, when it isn’t it is a nightmare.

Think about when your thermostat goes out. In the old days you just threw another log on the fire, but when technology fails you have no options. Like when the internet goes out at the restaurant and we can’t process credit cards. It literally is the end of the world. 

Ok, so my new high tech electric Mustang got T-Boned this week by another car and hopefully, I will have the car back by Christmas. So in the meantime I am having to drive my old pick-up truck. My Mustang told you if there was someone in back of you, it told you if there was someone on the side of you or even in front of you. I now have to use the rear view mirror. Isn’t that crazy. I now have to look out my side window if I want to change lanes. In my Mustang if I want to do anything I just tell it. In the truck I have to change the channels on the radio manually. I don’t even know how to find AM. The Mustang will tell you the quickest route to get anywhere and how to deal with traffic. In the truck I have to actually think and keep an eye on the road at all times. I just don’t know. And to think I was fancying buying one of the new high tech toilets. OMG, could just imagine what could go wrong.

Oct 30 - Nov 5

As I have said before, Cooper does not like seeing dogs on TV. I don’t know why, but he goes absolutely nuts when he sees one. So the other day I am watching the news when the 15 commercials come on. I see this commercial I have never seen before when Cooper jumps off the couch and starts barking at the TV. Now there is no dog in the commercial so I am confused when, just then, a dog appears. He knew the dog would appear and apparently knows the content of all commercials. Is that strange or what? Or maybe, I just let him watch too much TV.