Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Bits and Pieces

ENOUGH!
This is the view from my backdoor day before yesterday:


I expect to see a similar view as soon as I take a shower, do my hair, put on makeup, get dressed and step outside to go to the grocery store. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you can just barely see that it was pouring down rain. Who needs more of that?

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GROSS!
This is what I found on the den floor yesterday, about an hour after the dogs spent a few minutes outside:


All the dogs were sleeping when I found the dead lizard, so whichever one had caught it must have tired of it quickly. Dead lizards are not good for much.

On the other hand, over in East Texas a couple of days ago, my niece's dogs killed a cat that had strayed into their fenced-in yard. She found it on her porch, where her sleeping puppy was snuggled up with it.

We dog lovers tend to forget that our precious pets are natural-born predators. I wish they didn't have such a gruesome way of reminding us.

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BOTHERSOME!
While Kim and I watched TV last night, we heard a strange noise and couldn't identify the source of it. A few minutes later, we heard it again and got up to search it out. The refrigerator was...er...snoring. I'm not kidding; it sounded exactly like this. It makes that noise half a dozen times spaced a couple minutes apart, stops for several hours, then does it again a few more times. Otherwise, it seems to be working fine. If my car were making that noise, I'd take it to a mechanic, but I think I'll wait to see what happens with the refrigerator. It might stop cooling, but at least it won't leave me stranded.

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SAD...JUST SAD
On a serious note, I wrote the following on April 1, 2006: "...I can’t say enough good things about Philip Seymour Hoffman, who starred in the role of Truman Capote.  He’s been in so many movies that my daughter and I have joked about it for several years.  One of us will ask, 'Who’s in that movie?' and the other will answer with a list that always ends in '...and Philip Seymour Hoffman.'  He hasn’t been blessed with leading-man looks, which may be why he’s had time to hone his talent in supporting actor roles, but I think he’s brilliant!  It’s about time a movie came along that allowed him to shine."

Rest in peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. We will miss you deeply, but your star will continue to shine.

5 comments:

  1. The sound effect was too cute... I don't know if I could sleep with that noise!

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    1. Holly, I shouldn't say anything (don't want to jinx it), but we haven't heard that noise again since around midnight on Tuesday. Keeping my fingers crossed here.

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  2. Not too long go I woke up to find a doggy present in front of "my" chair --- a dead gopher! I locked the doggy door at night for about a week after that!!

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  3. My little Lucy loves to bring lizards into the house as well. Several times I've reached to pull a piece of grass out of her schnauzer beard only to discover that it is the lizard's tail, and that I suddenly have a half-dead lizard in my fingers. The rest was hiding in her mouth.

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  4. Aunt Betsy and Annette, thanks for sharing. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has dead things dragged into her house.

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