Jul 1 - 7

Ok. so we had the talk again.

Cooper, you are now 3 years old. You are no longer a puppy. In human years you would be 21, and you would be moving out of the house. Now, I don't expect you to move out on your own, but bringing me the ball 50 times for me to throw it, is getting old. Especially, when you drop the ball just out of my reach.  Now bringing me the ball 10 to 20, I could see that, but 50 times and then growling at me when I don't throw it fast enough. I mean really, you need to grow up. 

No, we are talking, I am not going to throw the ball.

What, you would growl at me? I can't believe it.

Now you are barking.

OK, I will throw the ball only 10 times.

…

Total silence.  (I think that is worse)

Ok, I will throw it 40 more times, but tomorrow you are down to 20.

BTW, look at what I discovered in the house in the hall to the outside porch…

Jun 24 - 30

Ok. So a few years ago I wrote that Heaven handled so many souls that it had had to have an administrative department, and that I felt the most logical group to run it were deceased DMV workers.

Well, what if I was wrong? (Don’t answer that.)

Now it seems more likely that that administrative dept would be AI. So if it is AI, did God go away to start 10,000 other planets and leave everything here to be run by an old Mac.

This is why you do not drink before you go to bed, because these are the dreams you come up with.

Jun 17 - 23

So there is good luck and bad luck and there is Cooper luck.

So on Saturday we had it arranged that our sitter would take the kids to Golfland / Sunsplash for 4 hours so we could get a break. We planned to go out to lunch which we hadn't done for months. Well just before we left I took Cooper out side with me to clean the pond. I tied him up under a tree for about 20 minutes in the shade where I usually have a pole to tie him too.

Everything was fine until we got inside and he suddenly started to howl. I couldn't see anything was wrong, and as i held his head he started shaking it and ran away. I found him upstairs on our bed with his head between 2 pillows, so it was apparent he got something stuck in his ear.

So, off to the emergency vet I go and get home just in time for my wife and I to have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before the kids got home..

Jun 10 - 16

Vacay in Santa Cruz

Ok, so my wife took the 2 darling children down to Aptos on Tuesday, while I stayed home all week and took care of business and all the animals. On Friday morning I got up early and started to get everything ready. I played with Adam the hamster. I played with Stanley the cat, I played with Jake the parakeet and of course I played with Cooper all morning. I had a large list of items I had to pack and getting Cooper ready before  someone came by to keep an eye on all the animals, was stressful. In the middle of all this I am answering text from everyone about everything at work, but I finally get the car packed knowing I forgot something.  I get in the car and head out driving the electric Mustang with a full charge, and feeling pretty good about the trip. I turn on the radio and almost immediately this commercial comes on I just can't stand. It is a jewelry store that has locations in the Bay Area and Sacramento, and is on every channel I listen to. 

So I tell Siri through the car to play my music. Son of a gun, the phone won't connect. What? Why won't it connect? Duh, because I didn't bring it. I turned around and went back and got it, but if it hadn't been for that commercial I would have gotten across Sacramento before i realized it.

I still hate those commercials though.