Coco

This post is for Dave and Heather...

As you know, Coco was installed as a member of our family in January.  At first Mickey was giving us looks as if to say, "who the heck is this black mexican coo-coo and why exactly is she staying with us?"   Coco seemed displaced and not sure if she could put all her love into us.  

It has almost been 3 months and things have definitely changed for the better.  Mickey absolutely loves Coco and I absolutely believe that sometimes he thinks that she is his own personal toy to tool around with.  Coco loves and depends on Mickey.  She actually cries for him if he is outside and she is not.  

We have learned much about Coco in these past several months.   She is a very affectionate dog and loves to cuddle and be snuggled and kissed.  She curls up next to me at night and sometimes will kiss me in the middle of the night.  She still isn't super found of new people coming into the house and take s her time warming up to them.  But, she definitely comes around and then there is no stopping the attention that she gives to them.  

I have to selfishly say that she is by far my dog.  Jay and Ben love her but it is me that she looks for and comes to.  

Coco fits in perfectly in our family!  Dave and Heather, thank you for allowing us the pleasure of sharing our lives with this perfectly wonderful and very sweet canine companion.  We can not imagine our humble abode without her!

Lice Equals Mice

 My sister called me up this morning and told me a story that all most had me pee my pants.  Allow me to put a smile on your face...

Judy's family had a lice epidemic about a month ago.  Lice protocol is not only to treat the infected hair by killing  the active bugs and picking out the eggs-called nits, but also to put all pillows, bedding, stuffed animals in a plastic garbage bag.  These items can be re-introduced back into their former abodes after 2  weeks have passed.  Yesterday, my brother-in-law was cleaning the garage out and found the bags and promptly re-introduced the long-lost-once-carriers-of-lice-but-hopefully-lice-free-now items back into the house.  Here comes the funny part-Bags were opened, pillows went back on beds, stuffed animals were reunited with their ever-loving humans and a mouse promptly scampered out of one of the bags and ran down the stairs.  My niece Michelle was the one that spotted him and called my sister hysterical, barely breathing from the terror of seeing this hideous vermin. The little dude is hiding out there somewhere.  

Which would you rather have infest your house-mice or lice-I choose none of the above!  And I think I will avoid their neck of the woods for awhile longer, thank you very much!

Why????

Okay-I am awake.  It is 7:29 day light savings time which means in my body it is really 6:29.  My question is why did the powers-that-be have to change the month in which daylight savings time is suppose to start.  Ever since I have been on this planet, daylight savings time would start somewhere in the month of April.  It was a signal to all that summer was approaching.  Children, mine boy included, spend hours after school absorbing the fresh air .  Parents from all over did not share in their children's enthusiasm.  Homework and even simple things like eating dinner become back-burner to the need to soak in all the extra daylight for outside activities. 

As I gaze outside my window at this early hour I am thinking.... that this is the time of day that Ben will be going to the bus stop and it is still pretty dark out there.  In fact, this is the time that many children walk to school.  So-to gain a little bit more light at the end of the day means that the start of the day is darker.  If the time change was returned to April when our portion of the earth was a tad bit closer to the sun and the warm stickiness of summer, the day would start off with more light.  I don't quite understand why they messed with what was working.  Thanks a whole lot powers-that-be!