Highlighters Taste Good. Urrp.

Dear Liebe:

Appears I have dodged an audio bullet for a little
while.

Chief and Briggie were gettin all slavered up (dog
word for excited) about doin a skit to this "almost
persuaded" song again. they even got another cd
cause they lost the one from january.

they were messing around with gettin out of chairs and
handling beer glasses to waltz time.
I could see it was gonna be a rough month of listening
to that same music 1000's of times.

But last night they learned it was gonna cost em
big really big bucks to do that simple thing.
so plan canceled....
aaaieee until july in red lodge.

so most likely before this is over, i will learn to
run in waltz time and bark "almost persuaded"

briggi went ballroom dancin 4 evenings this week. they
came back really late last night, chief was limping
pretty good. then they made a pizza. someone fell
asleep and left pizza by the bed. amazingly, the
plate was really clean this morning,
hiccup.

hey, i got trimmed at wilco farm store. chief thought
briggie told him i would get trimmed at winco food
store....that would have been funner. lots of juicy
little kids running around there.

wilco is just the farm store, with mostly
adults....and smart farm kids that are wary of sharp
fanged small dogs.

i am pretty frisky this morning, cause i ate my
morning pen/yellow highlighter. one of them a day
really gets me goin. chief too, chasing me around
trying to rescue the thing.
ha ha, when i let him catch me, the thing was just a
couple dregs of chewed up ink stained plastic.

chief gonna do taxin today, and work on putting new
lights in kitchen, the better so i can find the pieces
of dog food he rolls for me. tomorrow i am guarding
omi,.because

chief and briggie and neighborladylinda goin to renton
shootin. at least thats what chief thinks. actually
briggi and linda goin to ikea!! probably no room in
rig for gunbags when they pick up chief.

nuff for this morning.

charlie (with blue and yellow teeth)

Field Identification of “Stuff”

Prologue: Joe and Daniela learned to identify different animals and stuff by sitting on Dad’s lap and he went thru catalogs with pictures of deer and bears and fish and stuff. He might have done bit of this with Martina too.

Now Mikki and Zander and EJ are on a test outing with G-pa. They are not far out, just to “The Stump” in the back yard. (The stump is final repository where things which quit (phones, tvs, microwaves) end up as targets.)

G-pa says: “Ok kids, we are going to learn some target and food identification tools today, to make you better able to survive in the outside real world. So first off we look at the things here and figure out what they are or were.”

“Now look at this old piece of white plastic laying here. See, its about 14” long and 3 inches wide. Anybody got any ideas?”

Mikki chimes in with, “G-PA, you can’t fool us, that was an old bowling pin!”

G-pa says, “You are right on, little gal. Now what is this thing? Its all black, has a plug on one end, has holes in it, “Made in Singapore”….?”

EJ says: “hmmm, it’s got a little wire to this unshot end. I bet it was a charger for a phone or something….HEY, here a speaker from a telephone too. Wow, there’s lots of neat shot up stuff here. Bet we could put it together and make something!”

Mikki kicks at something half buried in leaves and spent bullets and says, “What’s this black heavy thing? Mom has something like this at home but it stays hidden in the cupboard and we daren’t take it out.”

Zander picks it up and turns it around, looks thru the bullet holes, and sniffs. Then he bangs it against the stump….Bboinggg!. “I think this is an old sauce pan, and someone burned it to bits so you put it on the stump”.

EJ, just having acquired his very own Leatherman tool, starts digging at the crusted stuff on the saucepan. “Hey, this looks like a very old burnt carrot, and this smells like….Minestrone soup, Campbells deluxe”.

G-pa says; “Yup, you got it. You kids are really smart. Let’s go in and make some hot chocolate before Briggie comes home and burns up the last pot in the house.”

Last Night

Dear Mikki, Zander, and EJ:

you kids missed a great opportunity last night.
Charlie woke me up about midnight, something down by
porch.

We went downstairs, I turned on outside light....
just in fringe of light....i could see a deer, looked
like a big one. then it was gone.

we went back to bed.

At 12:30, charlie woke me up again. This time i had
the Dewalt light in the bedroom and i shined it
outside.....Well there was a really big deer, right by
the deck. I think he was eating briggies flowers.

anyway, he walked off, didnt like the light.

If you get lucky, maybe next time you are here we will
see him.

gpa.

Last Night

Dear Mikki, Zander, and EJ:

you kids missed a great opportunity last night.
Charlie woke me up about midnight, something down by
porch.

We went downstairs, I turned on outside light....
just in fringe of light....i could see a deer, looked
like a big one. then it was gone.

we went back to bed.

At 12:30, charlie woke me up again. This time i had
the Dewalt light in the bedroom and i shined it
outside.....Well there was a really big deer, right by
the deck. I think he was eating briggies flowers.

anyway, he walked off, didnt like the light.

If you get lucky, maybe next time you are here we will
see him.

gpa.