Everything is a trade off.
Sparky likes car rides, but is having a problem with stairs. I like Sparky, but have a problem cutting his nails in the house. We usually trim his claws on the deck, but that’s covered with snow.
Page 30 of 91
When I woke up this morning, the outside temperature was 1.4o F and we’ve got drifting snow. It hasn’t been this cold, with this much snow, for so long, since Sparky moved in. He won’t complain, but Sparky isn’t going to like going outside for his morning constitutional.
I am tempted to compel Sparky to plow through a snow drift.
Tomorrow is the second anniversary of Sparky’s liberation from the orphanage. I shot this short video today of Sparky being the best dog.
For the third day in a row, Sparky has gone down into the creek to sniff around and take a dump. He has learned to snow slide down the bank.
“A man’s got to know his limitations.”
Sparky tells me that all the time. He spends too much time watching Dirty Harry movies, but I kind of agree with him. In that spirit, he can do what he wants as long as he stays within certain guidelines. Mostly, don’t wander off and don’t poop in the house.
Today, he decided was going in the creek. He goes in the upstream side all the time, but that’s only a couple of feet deep. The downstream side is much deeper.
Sparky is licking his chops as he eagerly waits for me to finish making his breakfast.
He gets half of a hard-boiled egg, and a third of a cup of buffalo. That’s what he calls it. He gets Blue Buffalo Chicken Blend dog food for old people, but it’s got a wolf on the bag, so he could probably eat a buffalo if he wanted.
I’ve been scanning and organizing old photos.
This is from teaching summer school at Cleveland Heights. The photos look like one of those “White savior” teacher movies where the young White woman is teaching the urban kids that society has given up on. She sees something of value in each and every one, and somehow, ignites a love of learning.
Teaching a bunch of Black kids at an urban school wasn’t like that, but if they make a movie, I want to be played by Gwyneth Paltrow.
That’s a bad sign.
Stacked wood attracts mice and mice attract Sparky. He likes to sniff behind the racks. When I saw the leash sticking out of one side of the rack and Sparky sticking out of the other side, I knew something happened.
Somehow Sparky slipped out of his Inspector Gadget jacket.
Sparky came back, so I let him run around naked for a little while. With the snow and cold, there wasn’t much danger that he would go on walkabout.
My brother has been watching a Youtube channel called, Popcorn in Bed, so I tried it. A cute, mid-30’s woman reacts to a movie she is watching for the first time. Cassie is chatty, sweet and naïve.
For my first frivolous purchase, this boot dryer is great. When I tell Sparky we are going out for a walk, I turn it on. By the time Sparky and I have our jackets on, the boots are warm. Putting on warm boots is like putting on a sweatshirt that just came out of the dryer.
After the walk, the boots get a dried for 10 minutes.