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Follow-Up Friday – May 22, 2015

May 22, 2015 By Jodi

Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the post where I highlight awesome comments, answer reader’s questions and generally just wrap up my week.

You Make Me Smile – May 17, 2015

Chocolate Lab

Hmm, there were noms in this bag. Who’s the bitch that left me with an empty bag?

Jan said, “My guys check out everything and then have a committee meeting to determine the edibility (is that a word?) before we move on.”

Siriusly Jan? You are going to ask ME if it’s a real word? I say if it isn’t it should be!

2 Brown Dawgs said, “Delilah was probably hoping there were leftovers. Oh look someone left me a snack…rats it is empty.”

I’m sure that is exactly what was going through her mind. LOL

If Thwarting Were an Olympic Sport

Hailey and Zaphod said, “I am laughing because the toilet issue you mention is one I often have with not one, but 2 dogs. They will try and get on my lap once I am able to sit!”

On your lap? Oh my gosh. Sampson will sometimes put his head on my knee and Delilah likes to try to get her face in there to see what I’m up to, but thankfully no-one climbs on my lap!

Monika said, “I think Sam may be good(?) competition for the D-Dog in the under foot category. He either stands in front of me where I need to go or sneaks up all Ninja style behind me and then I trip over him. That dog is gonna put me in the hospital yet!”

OH. MY. GOD. The Ninja style, not only do I have it with the dogs, sometimes Hubby does it too. I swear, one day I will pee myself or trip and hurt myself and then pee myself. 😉

Kirsten said, “Oh–Humping, no doubt! Isn’t that already an Olympic sport?”

LOL Kirsten, it never crossed my mind.

Sherrie Petrie said, ” Our girls would have the Gold in KISSING. No matter what you are doing and where you are doing it they have to be kissing you. IT DRIVES ME CRAZY !!!!!!!!”

Well Delilah licking the floor drives me nuts, so I can only imagine if she was kissing me instead.

Six Things I Won’t Do When I Win the Lottery

Golden Lab Loves Boat

I’d like a boat, do you think you could swing that?

 

Genevieve asked, “Wait, so the hubby would take time off to drive the RV – Does this mean he’d still be working??? Good luck with that!”

I said I won the lottery. 🙂 Hehehe, it never even registered when I was writing that post. LOL

Sue said, “If you and I both win the lottery, I’ll see you in NC, Jodi 🙂  My 3 and your 2 would have a high time on the beach together!

I did not win, but boy that would be nice wouldn’t it?

Mary said, “I wouldn’t buy a big house either. I would buy a few small ones in select places.”

That’s a great idea. Lots of land with two small houses on it. One for me and one for whoever was visiting. 🙂

Monika said, “I know you said the things you wouldn’t do, but I’d be way too excited to actually do this: Faxing my bosses the 6 luckiest numbers in the world with the P.S. See ya suckers-you can all go pound sand now, I’m outa here! 😉”

Aren’t you sweet? My idea of giving my notice is to stand on the boss’ desk, drop my pants and say, “Kiss my ass, this chick is done.” 😉

Jan said, “According to my spam folder I have won about five lotteries a day even though I never buy tickets.”

You too? I had a relative die in Zimbabwe and the barrister there wants to give me some money!

Maggie said, “Yes!! Write more!! Absolutely! (Damn bills.) Anyway, I would totally buy a new house – a horse farm with two horses, two goats, all my dogs, plus some barn cats. Oh, and Newt can stay, too. And a fish pond. And chickens for eggs, not for eating. Then I’d spend the rest of my time taking care of my farm and writing! 🙂

I like it! As long as you are happy and keep writing. 😉

Emma said, “I would hire a driver because Mom doesn’t like to drive.”

Really? I would never have guessed that. You’ve driven to Florida, Vegas and next week Nashville, how does she handle all those long trips?

Jen Gabbard said, “My list would be pretty damn similar to yours – especially the possibility of downsizing my home for more land or buying waterfront property. I couldn’t imagine the headache that comes with owning a super sized house – it’s just going to get filled with crap (or more dogs). I’m glad to know you wouldn’t stop writing either – or hire some weird ghostwriter. If anything you could hire one of those to write your memoirs since that seems to be the popular thing to do amongst the riches.”

We came from a small five room house, to a larger four bedroom house and you know what happened? We just filled it up with more shit. Who needs that much stuff anyway?  As for the writing, I would continue to write, but I think I’d like to write my own memoirs. 😉

2 Brown Dawgs said, “That is a good list. I would add a pond to your land. :-)”

Oh for sure, that is a given. I want Delilah to be able to swim!

The Importance of Rain Gear

Wet Chocolate Lab

I can’t even look at you. You’re whining about your pants, and my fur is getting wet!

Lauren Miller said, “The other day I decided to go to the park even though it was misting out and I borrowed my husband’s light raincoat and I ended up with a soaked head because the hood kept falling over my eyes and I couldn’t see the girls with it on and yep soaked pants, too! ”

Doesn’t that stink? I usually wear a ball cap and pull the hood up over it, but it still falls down! I actually ripped the hood I got so pissed trying to keep it up. ;-( My bad.

Meagan & Merlin said, “So one day I took Merlin out around the block, all the while looking at the big raincloud that looked far enough away so I’d think it wouldn’t rain on us. I was wrong, on the last leg home it poured down so hard I was soaked through in a second. Merlin on the other hand being a Lab loved being soaked and wanted to run zoomies through the house.”

Ah zoomies, yes they love to run the zoomies when wet, but I’m not sure they love being soaked. 🙂

Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s mom suggested, “How about wearing your walk-the-dogs pants OVER your work clothes?”

That might work in the cooler weather, but when it’s hot, it is hard enough for me to wear the pants and the long shirt. 🙂 I do have other pants I could wear, it’s just I really like these because they have nice, deep pockets to hold all my stuff.

Lauranne said, “Brilliant, “sorry I was flashing goven’r but the rain pulled my pants down” not sure it would stand up in a court of law I’m afraid!”

Hahahaha, it would be worth a shot. I could show them this blog and all the dog’s antics, do you think that would help or hurt my cause?

Jan said, “You really need to hire a film crew to follow you around.”

Wouldn’t that be a hoot? It would have to air on HBO because I use a lot of swear words. 😉

Pamela said, “What was I thinking reading a Jodi post at the library? They almost threw me out for guffawing.”

I try Pamela, I try. 🙂

That’s it for me folks, have an awesome and safe weekend. And remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

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The Importance of Rain Gear

May 21, 2015 By Jodi

I had a moment of panic last weekend when I realized that not only did I need to write the posts for this week, I needed posts for the days I will be in Nashville.

So this week, instead of reading blog posts (which is what I WANT to be doing) I’ve been looking through pictures, blog drafts and news feeds looking for ideas to fill those three days.

Thankfully, I think I have a plan in place, I just hope I have the time to get it done!

The Importance of Rain Gear

Personally, I like walking in the rain.

Wet Chocolate Lab

I can’t even look at you. You’re whining about your pants, meanwhile, look at my fur.

It’s relatively bug free. That’s a plus with sweet blood like Delilah’s and mine. For some reason we attract bugs like honey does.

Just about nobody walks their dogs in my neighborhood in the rain.

I’ve worked hard with the dogs on getting them past other dogs and we do remarkably well if the dogs are in their yards, but try to walk these two past a dog walking on the other side of the street and you’re risking a dislocated shoulder.

Considering the amount of snow we had this past winter, we’ve been surprisingly lacking in rainfall. I don’t see it as a problem.  Our lakes and rivers are still high from the snow melt off but our meteorologists keep screaming about high fire risk and that IS a problem.

So these weather peeps have been peeping about rain for the last few days. Some areas of the state got it and some areas close near us got it, but we did not. So I was quite pleased when I woke up Tuesday morning to discover it was raining.

Except I don’t have a rain coat.

But Hubby has this light weight gear designed for fishing, so I borrowed his ‘Gilligan’ hat and rain jacket, harnessed up the dogs and headed out the door.  (Oh, you want to see a photo of me in the hat?)

Gilligan Hat

Gilligan’s hat works for sun or rain. In this instance, it was protecting me from the sun.

I don’t know about you, but I wear one particular pair of pants when I walk the dogs. (I can’t walk them in my work clothes because Delilah is such a saliva factory that I am continuously wiping my hands.) The problem with these pants is they fit 15 pounds ago.

Fifteen pounds to the plus and your pants might not fit you (or you could have an incredibly bad wedgie or worse…camel toe) but fifteen pounds to the minus and your pants still fit, although they may need a titch of  help staying up.

My pants are so loose, well, I could pull them down without unbuttoning them. Right handy if you need to pee really badly, but not quite so convenient when walking dogs. Especially two like mine, who trip you, wrap you in leashes, step on your feet…well you get the picture.

To ensure I don’t experience an unexpected breeze in my nether region, get arrested for indecent exposure or traumatize some poor child, I have taken to threading my treat bag strap through my belt loops, which helps hold up my pants.

Back to the story. So here I am in Hubby’s ‘Gilligan’ rain hat, with his X-Large rain jacket on walking my dogs.

The jacket works great! It doesn’t get too hot, because the material is light weight and the rain just runs off it. But there is a tiny little problem.

Hubby’s rain jacket is X-Large and I’m not. So the jacket hits my legs just below my hips. As I mentioned, the rain just runs off it, and because of where the jacket is hitting, the rain runs directly on to my pants. Which wouldn’t be such a problem, if the pants weren’t too big to begin with.

Ah, you’re nodding your head, you see the problem I did not anticipate.

Yeah, my legs get soaked from my crotch to the bottoms of the pants. And water on material is heavy. So the weight of the rain on my pants is pulling the pants down but their also sticking to my legs.

Wet Pants

You think it looks bad, try wearing them.

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Six Things I Won’t Do When I Win the Lottery

May 19, 2015 By Jodi

I have a list of titles in my blog calendar waiting to be written, and yet somehow I found myself searching the internet for something to write about for WTF Wednesday.

I couldn’t find anything to write a WTF post for, which means no-one stupid is making the news in the animal world this week (thank DOG!)

But I did come across a post, Twelve Things Not to Do If You Win the Lottery.

Most of it was stuff I knew, don’t carry any debt, don’t take 50 of your closet friends on a cruise, lump sum is not necessarily better than life payout, etc.

The one thing I did learn was you should immediately fill out your name and address and sign the back of the ticket. And here I thought the smart thing would be to put the ticket in my fire safe until I spoke to my financial guy.

ANCT wrong answer. Turns out lottery tickets are like bearer bonds, so if you misplace that ticket or someone knocks you out and takes it and your name isn’t on the back, you could be shit out of luck.

The post did get me thinking of things I wouldn’t do when I win that jackpot tomorrow night.

I couldn’t come up with twelve, but I did come up with a solid six.  When I win the lottery I will not:

  • Buy a mansion. That’s silly, I’d just fill it with dogs anyway. What I’ll probably do is sell my house and buy a small house, with lots of land for walking the dogs, either on a lake or the coast.
Golden Lab Loves Boat

I like the coast and a boat. Could you spring for a boat?

  • Go to work. Yeah, that ship sailed the second that last number was called. Instead I’ll fill my time with my dogs, and I’ll volunteer somewhere, preferably with a rescue/shelter and probably a convalescent home.
  • Stop walking my dogs. Why pay someone to do something I (mostly) enjoy? Although I will probably hire a trainer to help us work on our walking skills.
  • Trade in my car for a nicer one. Pfft, dog hair looks the same whether it’s in my 10-year old Hyundai or a brand new Tahoe. Besides, Tahoe’s use a lot more gas than my Hyundai does. If I need a nice ride, I’ll rent a car for the occasion.
  • Fly commercial to Nashville. Nope, I hate flying to begin with, maybe I’ll rent an RV and have Hubby take a couple weeks off and drive me and the dogs to BlogPaws. Anyone want to meet Sampson and Delilah?
Why do you insist on flashing that thing in my face?

Do they have stuffies in Nashville? If not I can bring my own.

  • Stop writing. Actually, I might write more. I mean, without having to go to work, maybe I’ll find the motivation to finish that book.

I’m sure I could think of more but that’s what I have for right now. So tell me, what wouldn’t YOU do if YOU won the lottery?

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