How we usually pick our dogs

In our previous house, the carpeting was a sort of light brown.* This happened to be the color of Mrs. Beisbol's dog at the time. When we got our couch for the new house, it was a little lighter. Our next few dogs were more that color. In fact, when we took one of the pooches to the vet for her initial checkup, our vet remarked that we sure do like to get those cream colored dogs. I think Mrs. B told him something along the lines of this cartoon. In reverse. We get our dogs to match our furniture.

Of course, now we have this knucklehead,

snoozing beside me at 6:30 in the morning after getting me up two hours ago (she's sleeping later, woo hoo!) She's got black hair on her back, but I'll tell you, sometimes I can't tell the difference between the 'sisters'. (full disclosure, the above picture was taken last night as we tried to keep her awake so she'd sleep in this morning. We didn't do a very good job keeping her up)

* Now I'm wondering what the original color of the rug was...

My, my, aren't we sensitive

I'm always amazed how careful people have to be nowadays so as not to offend or re-offend.

Check out the following sentence from a Snopes entry...

"Barnes & Noble would like to publicly apologize(blah blah)...In this particular case, we do not condone whatever message may have been intended..."

huh?

We're sorry for whatever it is we're sorry for, whatever that may be. Really.

at Starbucks, the closest thing is a Cafe Americano

hmmmm

Look carefully

Several Stupid Dogs

And don't forget about the cats

enough said

oooooooooooh!

All the modern inconveniences...

Arizona Cardinals' Anquan Boldin as a child

This morning at 5 AM

only it was a puppy...

It's blue...er, no, white.

As long as it holds a magnet.

Did you ever notice that people with a new puppy or toddler can only 'decorate' the top part?

We once had a refrigerator magnet that was shaped like a milkbone dog treat. I think it was actually made from a real biscuit. I wonder what happened to it.

Basic Instructions

A few days ago I discovered this comic.

It's one of those comics with too many words, but give it a try.

It makes me think and laugh, always a good combination.

http://www.gocomics.com/basicinstructions/

or

http://basicinstructions.net/

If it's a little hard to read the below comic, you know the drill.

Click on the picture to get a larger version.

It seems to me that each panel is funny in an of itself.

I was going to make a very witty comment about this one, but,...well, you know the rest.

but (mostly) cool crap

I don't think the cartoonist

really captured

the true essence

of

a house full of crap.

My dreams are getting way too literal

This morning I was dreaming that I was already up and letting the pup out. Then I woke up.

Lucy's a nut

This morning, as she does every morning, Lucy wanted to get up early. I got up and let her (carried her) outside to do her bidness. I thought maybe she'd let me sleep after I put her back in her cave, but no, she wanted to eat. I told her to be quiet and she was quiet for maybe about two minutes. She started making her noises but we ignored her for a while. It was getting quiet again when she found one of her squeaky toys in with her. Usually she squeaks excitedly and for a long time. This morning, she was squeaking slowly and pitifully as if this was her only friend in the world. Poor me (squeak)... I just wanted a little nosh (squeak)... I'm just a puppy. I don't know why I can't get up (squeak) I couldn't help but laugh. It's the first time she tried to get me up using her toy toys. I got up and fed her. Two minutes after she ate, she fell asleep again. (sigh)