Lloyd Price - Personality

Poems from my walk

Hurried paws
Unhurried pause
Snuffle snuffle
Quite a kerfuffel
What the hell
Do my dogs smell?


Autumn Forensics

In the dying light a skittery scratchy sound
As dry leaves, swirling twirling curling
reveal the wind's fingerprints on the ground

The kids are home

They drove all night because they were driving a friend to Harvard who wanted to see the Harvard Yale game today. Since I didn't konow about it until they got here in the morning, I couldn't be worried about them driving all night. YIKES! Why did they do that? Well I said, now you'll have to sleep all day and they laughed at me. NO! said Kyle, we'll just stay up and go to sleep tonight:

Yeah, right.

Leslie isn't asleep, yet. Here's my reader:

But she'll be out soon, I'm sure.  So far we've managed to go shopping and spend over a hundred dollars on food. - All kinds of food that I try to stay away from, too. Oh well, I got Lelsie and Kim a card for the gym, so we'll have to use them!!

Oh yes, and Buddy brought laundry. Even after the load I did for him when we went to visit.

I know, I'm pathetic. he's pathetic. Leslie does her own laundry and already helped me walk the dog.





Yoga

I took a yoga class today. I didn't realize it was a yoga class because it was called "Body Flow". I thought it would be a low intensity work-out that I could do to wind down from Zumba!
There was a distinct disconnect between the soft slow music and the teacher's soft mellifluous voice and what she was asking you to do. It seemed to me like this. Read this in a soft, slow, soothing voice.

Gently raise your right leg forward and place your foot behind your neck. Now on the left. gently raise your left leg forward and place your left foot behind your neck. Feel that gentle pull on the muscles. Place your hands in the praying position. Look up at the sky. Now tense the muscles in your right buttock and move your right buttock forward. Now the left. Now walk around your mat using only your butttocks.

Well it seemed like that to me. I think they should forget about waterboarding and send terrorists to body flow class. they'll sing like canaries after they've been in the triangle for a few minutes.

When I wrote the above I thought I was making it up, but evidently I wasn't.

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A Bumbling Idiot

That's what I become when I walk the two dogs on leashes. What's missing from this picture is a bag of dog poop dangling from one hand. That adds to the mix. The story of my life is having "brilliant" ideas but never considering the ramifications of what it will mean in my life. "Let's keep a puppy!" Now I have to feed walk and clean up after two dogs. We have to pay to board two dogs when we go somewhere.

Anyway, you would think that the law of averages would mean that they would walk on the same side of barriers at least half the time. Nope. 97% of the time they choose different sides - from each other or from me. Once a dog goes around a tree the wrong way it is almost impossible to get them to go back the way they came. They just do not get it. I have perfected several strategies for untangling - there's the twirl with one hand over the head - the one hand behind the back switch and the ever popular drop the dang leash and pick it up again gambit.

Emma is the mad pooper. She can't just squat and poop- no- she walks as she poops and drops presents in a line behind her. I have to be very vigilant to get it all. It's like a very ugly Easter egg hunt. Zoe is more normal, but JUST LATELY- she has been doing the walking poop trick too. When they do it at the same time I become the bumbling idiot of poop scooping.

Yesterday at 7 AM I was out in the common area of the townhouse complex and was tying a bag of poop- so that I only had a loose grip on the leashes and I was pre-occupied and they spied a cat across the street so they bolted after it, dragged the leashes clattering behind them up on a neighbors porch. They live with a cat, for heaven's sake! You'd think they would be used to cats.

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