So I think I left off with a skunk in the corner of the garage and fire in the mind. Well I lost interest in the telling it so in short I brought the fire kettle shown here in the garage, put it under a spot where the ceiling was the highest and had a little blaze going. In about an hour the skunk smell was gone replaced by the beautiful smell of cedar and pine smoke, and the skunk was half out of it when I went to "persuade" it with a golf club to leave my garage. I read about the energy animals can sense from a person in Cesar Milan's book. I guess it does work. I went in with no aggression and no fear and i pretty much scooped it out with a rake and a three iron.
So how do ya ground a dog? Today Charley decided that he was going to go on a walk with a neighbor as she was passing by. Try as she could she couldn't get him to stay home so together they went for three miles down to the lake and back. During the excursion I got home from work and was warmly greeted by our other puppy named Lucy. Until then I had yet to see one dog without the other so I did the only logical thing that one could do....
Yeah I totally freaked out.
Long story short we were in the jeep ready to go looking and here the neighbor lady comes with Charley right beside her trotting down the road without a care in the world. She said he was great.
What I said to the dog:
You little punk what were you thinking? I was freakin out! I'm not playin, dog!
What he heard:
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah play
What's ironic is I think that's the same thing I heard when I was getting chewed out by my parents in high school. Anyway the dog is back and there was much rejoicing in the Land.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Belated
Hi, how are ya? It's been a bit since we have talked. Sorry about that. My bad. All sorts of stuff to talk about but never the time. Even if I had the time I have had very little motivation. But now I have both!
SO....
what to talk about..
I just had a very memorable weekend in Sabetha Kansas. I found that reading some Dr. Suess books as fast as you can can be a very rewarding experience. Just so you know I AM Mr. Pick-up-sticks and the grand champion of hide-and-seek. I did get my rear end handed to me in the memory game, but those 4 year old girls are ruthless. I have recently come to find out that that there was some cheating as certain marks and creases on the backs of certain cards were memorized well before hand. But all's well that ends well.
In other news there was another fire nearby but as things would be I didn't start it. A neighbor a mile or so west (who isn't the brightest bulb on the block) decided that a gusty day and on one of the driest months out of the year thought it would be a grand idea if he would try a controlled burn. Yeah that didn't quite work out like he planned.... Imagine that. The burn, powered by pretty good winds, took three fields. As I was getting home from work I pulled into my drive to see a red pickup leaving my backyard and entering the driveway at a fairly high rate of speed. I blocked the driveway to stop him and ask him what he thought he was doing, but it was a fireman in an unmarked truck that said the blaze hadn't came though the trees yet.
The first thought was "oh..... I guess that's good."
Second thought was "WHAT BLAZE?"
All said and done I am proud of our volunteer rural fire department. No houses damaged although the ones closest got within a couple feet. The wind was going just right that it flared up again behind our house. Again I am very thankful for a great rural fire department.
What else?
New Scores are out:
Chris:1
Skunk:0
Dogs:-50
We wake up the other day to a series of very urgent barks and a yelp. I wasn't left to wonder what happened for very long when I went to the garage and smelled our very unwelcome visitor. I mistakenly later told Janelle that we HAD (past tense) a skunk because I smelled him in the garage and on the dogs. After she left and I was going to my car, I noticed the roll of carpet in the corner kinda wobble. I walked over to see what was going on and there he was, and there I went. Fastest 180 in the west. I opened the door and waited a while. When I went back out I didn't see him so I got in the car and left. I gave my beloved a call to let her know not to park in the garage and proceeded with my day. When I got back my love told me that the dogs had been guarding a corner of the garage. Peeking under some Jeep seats I saw it, quite content and very unreachable to the dogs. SO only thing to do, build a fire in the garage. (it was a very calm day and there's no wind in the garage anyway). For all those who are scrolling up to see what I called the neighbor who decided he wanted to play with fire too, I would like for you to keep one very important thing in mind; if I were to accidentally burn the house down, it would've happened by now.
ANYWAY I'm getting tired of typing and it's getting late so I think I'm gonna finish this tomorrow.
SO....
what to talk about..
I just had a very memorable weekend in Sabetha Kansas. I found that reading some Dr. Suess books as fast as you can can be a very rewarding experience. Just so you know I AM Mr. Pick-up-sticks and the grand champion of hide-and-seek. I did get my rear end handed to me in the memory game, but those 4 year old girls are ruthless. I have recently come to find out that that there was some cheating as certain marks and creases on the backs of certain cards were memorized well before hand. But all's well that ends well.
In other news there was another fire nearby but as things would be I didn't start it. A neighbor a mile or so west (who isn't the brightest bulb on the block) decided that a gusty day and on one of the driest months out of the year thought it would be a grand idea if he would try a controlled burn. Yeah that didn't quite work out like he planned.... Imagine that. The burn, powered by pretty good winds, took three fields. As I was getting home from work I pulled into my drive to see a red pickup leaving my backyard and entering the driveway at a fairly high rate of speed. I blocked the driveway to stop him and ask him what he thought he was doing, but it was a fireman in an unmarked truck that said the blaze hadn't came though the trees yet.
The first thought was "oh..... I guess that's good."
Second thought was "WHAT BLAZE?"
All said and done I am proud of our volunteer rural fire department. No houses damaged although the ones closest got within a couple feet. The wind was going just right that it flared up again behind our house. Again I am very thankful for a great rural fire department.
What else?
New Scores are out:
Chris:1
Skunk:0
Dogs:-50
We wake up the other day to a series of very urgent barks and a yelp. I wasn't left to wonder what happened for very long when I went to the garage and smelled our very unwelcome visitor. I mistakenly later told Janelle that we HAD (past tense) a skunk because I smelled him in the garage and on the dogs. After she left and I was going to my car, I noticed the roll of carpet in the corner kinda wobble. I walked over to see what was going on and there he was, and there I went. Fastest 180 in the west. I opened the door and waited a while. When I went back out I didn't see him so I got in the car and left. I gave my beloved a call to let her know not to park in the garage and proceeded with my day. When I got back my love told me that the dogs had been guarding a corner of the garage. Peeking under some Jeep seats I saw it, quite content and very unreachable to the dogs. SO only thing to do, build a fire in the garage. (it was a very calm day and there's no wind in the garage anyway). For all those who are scrolling up to see what I called the neighbor who decided he wanted to play with fire too, I would like for you to keep one very important thing in mind; if I were to accidentally burn the house down, it would've happened by now.
ANYWAY I'm getting tired of typing and it's getting late so I think I'm gonna finish this tomorrow.
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