Posted on 08/28/2009 4:48:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick
"I fought for ol' Marse Robert, for four years nearabout,
Got wounded in two places, and starved at Point Lookout.
I got the rheumatism, a'campin' in the snow,
But I killed a heap of Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'."
- James Randolph, The Good Old Rebel
I’m trained in handling hardheaded boys! Fortunately, the dog has a compliant personality.
Thank you for stopping by!
Labs are the easiest dogs there are. They are motivated first, by food. Second, by a desire to please. Third, by their inborn need to fetch and carry. My young black dog has those three in reverse order . . . so her program is a bit different from the little chocolate, who is a more conventional Lab.
We were down at the polo field yesterday afternoon, and a guy had a remote control model airplane that he was flying around. Shelley caught sight of it and thought it was a BIRD . . . and she was OFF across the polo field running full tilt to intercept it. Ruby ran because Shelley was running, and the little year-old Viszla that was down there with us ran because Ruby was running. They were like streaks of lightning - I didn't know Shelley still had that sort of speed in her. She slept like a rock last night.
Ash has been following DP and Bill around, sighing at them. She hasn’t forgiven them for leaving her four 4 days.
My oldest daughter’s graduation! Pictures are around post 100.
Thank you for the ping! She looks so distinguished! You must be so very proud.
He’s so handsome!!
Also relieved that her next four years are covered!
(And The Boy really is cute - looks a little like my Bill, around the gangly legs.)
shhh! don’t let him hear you say that! (he’s full enough of himself as it is. Says boot camp was easy.)
When silly women wring their hands and cry, "Oh! I don't know how you can BEAR him being in danger!" I always reply that I would rather have him under the competent supervision of the USMC than with two of his buddies, a fast car, and a six pack!
I agree. I’m very happy Anoreth won’t be driving for a while.
Just wait until Da Boy finds out how much car insurance costs when you have two tickets and an at-fault wreck!
(And he ain't getting his car back until he shows us an insurance certificate from USAA!)
Anoreth has a clean record, but it must have been angels keeping her out of the ditches, because she drives way too fast. Maybe by the time she’s 21, she’ll have seen a few catastrophic wrecks and developed a little more sense.
Bill will drive the Purple Thing, when he finally finishes the 9th grade and gets his permit. I can get AAA to come charge the battery once we push it out of the garage so he can reach the lawnmower tomorrow. Someone left something on the last time it was out.
ping!
God Bless you and yours
We used to have a TR-6 that ate batteries for lunch (so what else is new about a British car wired by Lucas?) We were never able to trace the trickle discharge to ground, so we finally installed a battery kill switch (the kind they use in race cars, with the big plastic rotating key) under the glove compartment, with the terminals inside. That solved the problem, and also prevented somebody from stealing it one time. I used to park behind the Union Mission at work, and I came out one evening and found the ignition switch dangling from the steering column. Somebody had tried to hot wire the car . . . but gave up in despair and left (I just shoved the ignition switch back into the hole and carried on!)
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