The Dog is Winning

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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford

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The dog is winning.
As I write this blog Betty is trying to push Maggie out of the computer room where she is definitely not allowed. She still likes to chew up all kinds of things and the computer room has a lot of the things we are protecting from her. But she has learned that if she sits in the doorway you can’t close the door, like a salesman with his foot in the door. So there she sits. Betty is pleading with her, calling her, begging her to move. But she is one big heavy dog and she won’t be moved. She knows in a minute Betty will get the dog treats and bribe her into moving. She has this down to a science. She is winning.
Somehow we are not smarter than a two year old dog. She has us treat trained.
On a cold day she stands in the door to the outside and won’t come in or go out till she gets a treat.
She’ll play fetch with her favorite toy but she won’t give it to you unless she knows she will be rewarded with a treat.
She has trained us well.
The dog is winning.
When she scratches on the bathroom door she has taught us that the water in her water dish is now too hot or too old and she wants new water. If Betty doesn’t hurry and change the water once so notified then Maggie will play hockey with the dish and their will be water everywhere. Betty hastens.
She is defeating two college graduates if you can believe that.
I would holler at her but then she looks at you with those very sad eyes as if to say “ I love you” and I give in.
She even seems to know when it is in her best interest to obey.
She is one smart dog.
And the dog is winning.
But it’s okay., because we love her.
Let her win but she still has to stay out of the computer room.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal.
Today is the build-a bear workshop at Kivi and Maki’s . It will start right after school and run until 6: PM. Kivi has been meticulous as usual in picking the parts for the workshop. In the five years she has run it there has never been a disparaging comment made about anything connected to the workshop. Indeed the preponderance of comments indicate that the parents, aunts and grandparents that attend have been very happy with the results.
Bonnie McGregor swears that if her neighbors dog pulls her sheets off the line and chews up her clothes pins just one more time the local paper will have a “man bites dog “ story only it will be a woman doing the biting. She has a hard enough time contending with her twins at her age without having to fight with a dog. Besides she takes great pride in her laundry even using that Opulent White Soap advertised on TV. You know the stuff that can even take out lipstick stain , not that her laundry has any. The twins don’t wear lipstick. But it does get out the smoky quartz stain left by the pigeon poop the twins seem determined to get into.
Along with the ghost groupies this is the time of year when Pigeon Falls is visited by the color tour people. They have come to look at the beautiful trees. Given the number of falling leaves that season is not going to last long this year as there is just too much wind. That’s sad because for the most part the tour people are really nice people and fun to visit with. Oh well soon the hunters will come.
Today the Happy Pigeon opens and it looked like everybody in town was lined up to eat breakfast in the new café along with people from Iron River and Crystal Falls. . But this is the Grand Opening and Pigeon has promised surprises all day long One has to wonder what it will be like next week and the week after. There are those who really believe Pigeon is going to lose his shirt on this venture. We will see.

Wrap Up

Fasten your seat belts folks I’m about to confess.( No Pennie I didn’t break the bottle of moisturizing cream or steal your pickles . That was the dog. It also ate the build –a-bear workshop tickets. If it had done anything else you would have been greeted by a man bites dog story on your return.) No! I have not decided to flip-flop on my absolute meticulous lack of commitment to either candidate in this year’s election. I swear by my old but opulent apartment in Chicago this is worse than that. Worse than Betty finding a lipstick stain on my underwear shirt. So very much worse.
But I feel a need to tell all so here it is. I have been practicing for tomorrow’s wordzzle . Every day starting on Monday I have used either the five or ten word list on my blog. Please hold your disparaging comments while I try to explain. The preponderance of evidence says clearly that practice makes perfect. And you have to admit that with words like smokey quartz and clothes pin this week’s list is not easy. The task was like trying to keep falling leaves from falling. They were that hard. In all honesty the practice didn’t help. I don’t have an idea for tomorrow. So I’ve learned my lesson . I won’t do it again, probably.
Otherwise it was a good day. In the morning my "no reason at all" roses came for Betty. She was so surprised and so pleased. Then we went to the Post Office and sent the printout of the June blogs to my sister. After that we went to Wal Mart but the "Super" store didn't have a 9volt transformer. In the afternoon we worked in the basement and got everything back to running except the skating rink that needs the 9volt transformer. Pennie returned from Madison. Then I visited blogs. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

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