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 Laugh – March 1, 2015

Jan K said, “Luke and Sheba rile each other up equally. Cricket just sits back and watches them, waiting for them to drop whatever toy they’re fighting over, and then she moves in and steals it!”

LOL My dogs steal from each other too!

Jan said, ” My dogs take turns hearing something from another zip code and sounding the alarm.”

What’s that about?  The other night Delilah lost her shit at something she either saw or heard in the back yard at like 10:00 pm at night.  While I’m not worried about a person being in the yard, I do worry about wildlife.  She tore out of the house and tried to plow her way through three feet of snow.  Crazy dog.

The Diva of Destruction Strikes Again

This post is a perfect example of why I need Follow-Up Friday.  I SHOULD have titled the post, “Delialh Gives New Meaning to Pushing Pencils” what a perfect pun that would have been.  Sadly I thought of it after it had already hit publish.

Mary said, “Poop a pack of purple pencils. Say that 3 times fast.”

LMAO Mary!  I can’t even say, “Elevated Liver Levels” maybe I need to stop putting whiskey in my coffee?  Nah, that ain’t gonna happen!

Frankie and Ernie said, “TECHNICOLOR POOPS….. We love that… We think it must have been a FUN time… If you plan another… Session… “PENCIL” us in and we will join you, Delilah.”

OMD you guys are so funny!!  I should have asked you for a post title!

Blueberry’s Human said, “I’ve resisted posting pictures of Blueberry’s poop on the blog…but now you’ve lowered the bar and totally opened up that door for me. I thank you…P.S. When you warned us about the grossness, I kept scrolling down PAST THE POOP because I was waiting for the gross picture to appear.”

You’re welcome. 😉  That’s me, always a ground breaker.  Only you (and me) would think a picture of poop was normal  Oh and JoAnn, she would too. LOL

Elaine said, “Ouch! I would freak out see those pencils parts in a pile of poop!”

I did freak a little at first.  BUT then I thought about all the sticks she chews and figured they probably aren’t much different.

Jan said, “Now Jodi, you could never in a million years make up all the funny stuff that Delilah can think of to make this one of the funniest blogs in the blogosphere.”

Oh Jan, thank you.  I can’t imagine how boring this blog would be without Miss Delilah.

Rebekah said, “I just spit out my cottage cheese. Can’t. Stop. Laughing.”

THAT’s what I like to hear!! My work here is done. 🙂

Sophie said, “I’m wondering how those long pencils came out without hurting her! ”

I wondered that too, but she didn’t seem to struggle getting them out.

Maggie said, “We had a similar situation with my nephew’s box of Crayons. There were my three dogs, my sister’s two, and my mom’s all in the house, so no one knew who ate the box. Until later. It was Emmett.”

LOL Oh my dog.  I love Emmett!

Kirsten said, “Oh wow–pencil poop! That’s a new one, and testament to her hardy constitution. Glad they are apparently nontoxic.”

You know Kirsten, I never even thought of the possibility that they might be toxic!  I’m glad they weren’t either.

The Snow Banks are Made of Bread

Sand Spring Chesapeakes said, “When I feed bread to my chickens I break it up but when John’s mom throws bread out she throws the whole loaf of homemade bread out for her birds and guess who gets it yes bird Nellie who goes up there scavenging for scrapes and she finds a big one.”

LOL Bird Nellie.  There is a Labrador on one of the pages I follow who carries a loaf of bread around, like it’s her baby.  In fact, the owner named the bread Wilson. 

Emma said, “Damn birds! They would bring their crap to your snowbanks! ”

That’s what I said Emma.  Those damn birds.  Let me catch one, just one.  They won’t be coming in my yard again. 😉

2 Brown Dawgs said, “The birds and squirrels bring food into our yard but we try our best not to let the dogs eat it. Lately I have heard of reports where food items are poisoned and the dogs get sick or worse. ”

I do my best too, but that little shit is fast.  The idea of poisoning concerns me too, especially where we live with all the wildlife.  Who knows what some of those idiots would do to get rid of an animal.

Jackie Bouchard said, “Oh, I remember how it was walking our beagle in the snow. So much food – everywhere. One thing that always amazed me was the sheer number of chicken bones she used to find when we would walk.”

Gosh I hope you were able to get them away from her!  We do find all manner of food in the woods and I try to keep her from eating it.

Two French Bull Dogs said, “What do you do with all that snow!”

The snow blowers keep throwing the snow up on the banks and the plows keep pushing it back.  Most houses have at least 10 feet by 10 feet snow banks in their yards.  Some of the streets are too narrow for two cars to pass each other.  There are some places called snow farms where towns go and dump snow and also empty parking lots, but most of those are already full.  Our parking lot at work has lost about 25% of the parking spaces.

 

Daisy says, “Our snow banks are huge too – some are a good 20+ feet high – and our roads got so narrow that the plows started dumping loads of snow on our sidewalks and front lawns.”

That is the same here, there is just no place to put the snow.

Lauren Miller said, “We had a neighbor that would do that too! She would feed the deer and coyotes! It was insane and drove us all crazy…On a side note, I don’t think bread is even good for birds! There are signs everywhere here that says to please not feed it to them because it makes them sick.”

I did not hear that about bread for the birds, good to know!  One of our neighbors feeds the racoons, she calls them her babies.

Jan asked, “I think the birds are messing with you When you look up, do you see them chortling on the utility lines?”

Oh they do Jan.  It’s those fucking crows.  I can’t tell you how many times I look up and them and say, I wish I could shoot you.  I told hubby if we ever have to hunt for food, start with the crows.

Balls – Barks and Bytes

Emma said, “We have coyotes here and recently a lab was attacked in a neighborhood, so they are nothing to casually ignore!”

Crap, that scares me.  Was the dog outside alone?  I would hope with three of us together we would be intimidating for a wild creature but one can never be sure.  I do carry pepper spray too and would not hesitate to blast it.

Sand Spring Chesapeakes asked, “Did they get to bring the ball home?”

Nope.  Who the hell is going to blow that ball up?  Certainly not this chick.  I have no idea whose mouth that sucker has been in. 😉

Mary said, “Hee hee. You said the MoFo word.”

Yes I did.  I thought about it, but I figured if I haven’t offended you by now. LOL

Monika and Sam said, “OMD, I snorted coffee all over my keyboard! That was the best way to start the day–thanks ever so for a smile. I don’t think I’ll be forgetting that coyote narrative for quite some time and even though I gave up swearing for Lent (BTW, what the hell was I thinking doing THAT?), no doubt I’ll be silently recalling it as I wander our neighborhood which has its own resident coyote wandering around looking for stray cats. Is that technically considered a sin? ”

LOL I love it when I can make people laugh!!  And really, what the hell were you thinking?  I think as long as you’re not saying it out loud, you’re okay.  Once I gave up chocolate for Lent.  It was horrible.  I think I ate a whole pound of it at one minute past midnight on Easter morning.

Two French Bulldogs said, “Mom is jealous cause she wants to go to Blog Paws too.”

Well tell her to do it!  We want to see her!!!

Jan K asked, “Beach ball? Someone’s dreaming! What I wonder is what you thought it might be before you got there?”

Well there was a beach ball last year in the woods.  I wonder if it somehow just found its way down?  And surprise, I could actually tell it was a beach ball almost from when they first spotted it (I think it was the bright colors.) 🙂