It’s wonderful to have a flower child in our house…

It’s confirmed. Mannana is ‘D’ day. I have 24 hours to psych myself up for a very big adventure. Everyone knew but I. The women whispered amongst themselves and then erupted in laughter and glee. What could it be? I was afeared that I was to be treated to a stripper delivering my birthday cake, or a shower dance or somesuch humiliation and embarrassment. Maybe hands on massage or yoga class. Well it’s not birthing nor bungee jumping. I suppose I was to be dragged kicking and screaming, blind folded delivered up to the edge of the precipice… Tune in tomorrow!

Volunteer girl did not approve. New management mucked everything and the situation was dire. She needed to take the offensive if anything was to be done…

Using the power of the pen and a few precision emails the wrong-doers have been exposed for what they did (and didn’t). The blamed are trying to c.y.a. duck and cover. A head rolls. Flames and a flare up here and there. There is renewed hope for the innocent little ones.

My dog-gone dawg has rolled. I don’t know why animals do this but a google search says: “Some wolf characteristics stayed with the dog like the scent rolling instinct. The leading explanation is that they’re instinctively disguising their own scent so that prey animals won’t sniff a predator upwind. Megan Parker, research biologist at the Wolf Education and Research Center in Seattle, says that, yes, wolves-the ancestors of dogs-regularly roll in carrion. But she’s not so sure the reason is to disguise their scent. Both wolves and dogs have plentiful scent glands, she told us, so disguise is probably imperfect at best.It could be they roll in carrion to take the scent back to the pack, telling them they’ve found something interesting. Kind of like a restaurant review. It could also be that they’re marking the carrion with their scent, to tell anyone else who comes along ‘this is mine’. Of course, there’s always the possibility that some dogs may simply enjoy rolling around in carrion or feces, the way we enjoy a scented bubble bath.”

Well, he’ll get a bath alright — and me too from getting too close to him. I don’t know whether to be more upset at the dawg or the prevert that left the gift in the woods.

Maybe you missed this tip in your travel magazine about those horse collar neck gaskets? (keeps your head off of your shoulders when you snooze upright in your airline seat) The brand that inflates to a pillow could expand and damage the tissue causing trauma injury or death. If the aircraft cabin were to suddenly depressurize the neck doughnut would become a very large very hard balloon. Testing is incomplete and it is undetermined that this balloon pops before the circulation to your head is constricted. Important safety tip 🙂

Searching for calories to replace what I burned at the end of my jog, I find them (and then some) at a Sonic Drive In. Perfect. I didn’t even have to put my t shirt on. The car hop brought it outside to my steel mesh table. This was in need of a good steam clean and I felt a tinge of O.C.D. (ala Tony Shalhoubis) as I considered putting a napkin down for each elbow to rest upon. Instead, I left behind my own sweaty schmutz added to the layers.

I survived the wait-in-line ordeal at the DMV. They’ve got the processing of license renewals down to an exact science and it was a reasonably streamlined operation. This age of innocence is passing. I read in the paper about the Bush proposal to upgrade homeland security. Included therein, is the suggestion for the adoption of uniform laws for the issuance of driver’s licenses. This has nothing to do with automobile usage or driver safety. I fear that the next time I have to go in for the road sign test, I’ll be getting a background check as well.

Capillary action has drawn moisture to the backside of the rain gutter. The shingles were a bit short over the edge. Over time the wood rotted and hence the repair in progress that you see here. Pesky wasps are using this slot as their gateway into the biggest, finest hive they ever dreamed for.