It seems tomorrow Cooper is getting a sister. Not a real sister but I guess an adopted sister. I am not sure of the name yet but it will be and Australian Labradoodle. I will let you know how it goes.
So, I have to tell you that I have an ad for Taylors where we feature a shake each month. So I picked a Snickerdoodle shake, but I put in the ad not to be confused with a Goldendoodle or Labradoodle. You know I am strange so I don’t need to say much more.
Jul 22 - 28
In 1972 Harry Chapin wrote a song called Sniper. It was in reference to the 1966 Texas Tower sniper. If you listen to the song, and beware it is 10 minutes long, it eerily describes someone very similar to the kid who tried to assassinate Donald Trump.
Outside of that, I have nothing.
No more birds or nests in the house.
The kids are still extremely annoying.
Cooper does not seem to get past the puppy stage.
Jake the parakeet won’t stop barking like a dog.
Jul 15 - 21
Every year, we take a trip to Lake Tahoe. My wife feels it is so the kids will have good memories of their younger years, even though it ages us beyond belief. And of course we usually take one of the kids friends along for the trip so the kids have some company. We always rent a different house and since we go in the middle of summer I ask my wife to rent a home with air conditioning. Well she found this wonderful house overlooking the lake with a fantastic view. When we get there we realize that we forgot about checking for AC, and the house is gorgeous but warm inside. Ok, we can manage this, and so we unpack and get ready to invite some friends over who are staying at a motel down the road. I make dinner and our friends come over and everything is going well, when my daughter yells we have a problem. We go over and her friend apparently has the stomach flu. OK, we can work through this. We try to find some cleaning supplies and get things cleaned up, and ask the friend to stay away form everyone else in case.
About an hour later we get a text message that we have another problem. Now before this message I had told my wife maybe we should go home the next day, and she said don't be silly. So this message led us to a problem that was worse than the first. Ok, we encourage our other friends to go back to their motel, and we clean up again.
The next morning the friend says she is fine so we decide to go on a hike. We go to Spooner Lake to do a 2 mile hike and everything goes fine. We get back in the car heading back to the house when suddenly I hear this loud gushing of fluids. Then both of our kids start screaming. My wife turns around and says kids, when we get back to the house we are packing and going home.
By the way I took my electric Mustang up there and on the way back from Incline Village I had as much range on my car when I got home as when I left the house up there. The car regenerates when it brakes and goes down hill. However, going up it uses twice as much so it all averaged out.
Jul 8 - 14
Even though I grew up across the street from a Catholic Church and school, I do not consider myself a religious person. However, when you are sent a sign, it is important to take the right path. And so when 3 cases of chocolate chip cookies got delivered to TAYLORS by accident, but were addressed to LDS Church, I knew then, this was a sign from God.
“Do not mess with the Cookies”
So, I proceeded to call the distributor but initially got nowhere. I then started calling all the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to see who was missing these cookies. Being Catholic, I thought maybe these were their form of Communion, but it became apparent I was wrong. I finally got through from someone who said these 3 cases were supposed to end up far, far away from Loomis. In the end a local LDS Church offered to take them off our hands. I was very appreciative since I would have probably eaten them all myself.
Also it has been so darn hot I thought we might as well close the kitchen and cook everything on the side walk. That's being eco-conscious, right?