OT - The Latest Doggie Adventure

Not knowing Ellice's DH, but I know mine would've left it just to prove that it wasn't *him* who ate the cookies.

Intentional incompetence, which I've seen in men I'm *not* married to, as well.

I asked one I'm not married to, to go in the backyard and spray RoundUp on the neighbor's vines that I'm allergic to, so that I could go out in my own yard without breaking out in hives.

As long as he was out there, he sprayed RoundUp on the grass, the rose bushes, the tomatoes, the forsythia...

Voila, if everything in the backyard was dead, I was not going to impose on him to do yardwork. He thought himself rather clever, till I muttered something about making him pay the $200 to replace all the stuff that I didn't want killed off. I could understand a little overspray on the side of the yard where he was supposed to be, but half the stuff was on the far side of the yard where there were no vines.

LOL. Puckster is pretty civilised about it. He tends to wait pretty patiently until movement is detected - but if he sees an eyelid move, or hears anything then he's up doing the sniff check. Fortunately, it doesn't usually involve licks in the ear - but sometimes there's some hair tousling of the humans involved.

But, when he's decided we're awake, someone better be ready to get up and let him out.

Ellice

You know we will!

ellice

No, mine would do it as he said - because he thought I would enjoy seeing the latest misadventure by pooch. We both know that for someone exceptionally athletically coordinated he can be a terrible klutz in the house, and is the responsible one for most broken dishes (me, I'm the spoon down the disposal one).

ellice

Wow - you have some seriously bad karma with the males you know.

My DH is serious about what he sees as my standards. For the most part, I'm not really picky about many things in the house. However, DH was raised with the 2 clearly psychologically troubled older sisters (the seriously crazy one known to have a 20 minute screaming threatening fight with her ex because after doing all the dishes, he left the sponge on the edge of the sink, while the other with big chip on her shoulder has done such glorious things as emptying a bunch of stuff from their moms old room, and then leaving all the emptied little jewelry boxes for us, stamping her feet and screaming about me being the golddigger that got her brother because she wants the crystal glasses she gave her parents 20 years earlier [not fine crystal], accusing us of looking down on them because we won't stay in their kind-of 2 bedroom tiny house with no real floor in bathroom, a cockatoo, a conure, 2 large dogs, and a cat, plus hadn't been dusted in at least 3 years

- giving in to "Um, Ellice has allergies - that's why we always hang out on your deck, and don't stay inside for long) . And a mother who he got along with but was clearly of the crack the whip, had her standards. His dad passed young. Consequently, growing up with the 3 critical, sniping women - all much older than him - he is known to imagine criticism when an honest, non-critical remark is made. So, occasionally I have to remind him that I'm not one of the crazy sisters - who indeed would have a fit about something completely trivial. Or just the opposite. You never know with them.

OTOH, I am one of those people who thinks they've worked out great dishwasher loading patterns, so he'd rather just not do it, cause if he does, and I move something, then he somehow feels like it was a big "what did I do wrong now thing" rather than meaningless to me.

Very crazy - I guess he couldn't read labels, or was somewhat disturbed. I go back to the karma comment. Too bad.

On that happy note - it is felling a bit steamy like FLA here, and I think we're in for a hot day of yardwork.

Ellice

Dear Puckster,

As long as your breathe is sweet (for a dog I realize), you can sniff my ears, lick my checks or wake me up any way you wish. BUT, when we visit, there will a little girl that will love you until you fall asleep where you stand and she'll want you to sleep with her! And she won't care how you wake her up.

C

At least Karen hasn't tolerated a violent man (shuddering over fate of mother of former Brownie).

Cheryl

Wooooooff - sounds like fun. Good thing I'm going for my tooth cleaning in

2 weeks! I love playing with kids.. I can share the sleeping around - hey, I'm a happy, cuddly guy!

Ellice - who knows why they dock Springer's tails - cause otherwise they'd be broken from the perpetual waggin' machine.

True, in so far as we know. Violence - very hard to deal with for those violated, those that know them, just all around horrible.

Ellice