Things are busy. I have a LOT of indexing work. So rather than give up on this blog entirely, I am going to post little things. I will try for every day as a sort of discipline.
The rainy season has been a bit odd so far. Not so many evening storms. We go for quite a few days with nothing much, maybe a few passing drops. Then it rains all day long and all night!
We now have three dogs. After the second dog (having never had more than one) both Jim and I said, NO MORE! But we went to the market one day to buy a grill: not your regular Weber barbecue grill, but a local grill. Works very well. Will try to remember to post a picture. It was at the back of the market. Since it was heavy, Jim went to get the car. Came circling around the first time and couldn’t, in the midst of cars and bikes and buses and trucks, find a place to pull in, so he had to go round again. In the time it took him to circle the definitely congested block, a stoutish woman holding a box and pulling a little boy by the wrist came trotting along the sidewalk. She dropped a puppy quite deliberately out of the box and then pulled the crying little boy away as fast as she could. The puppy went up to two big market dogs who growled at her. Then she tried to go inside and something scared her out. Then Jim came. The man we bought the grill from helped us put it in the car. I started to climb in, but then I just couldn’t. “I can’t leave that puppy,” I told Jim. “I just can’t.” So we have it and we both love it and even more stuff is getting chewed and we are working very hard at housebreaking her.
Jim was chagrined, needless to say, at first sight of the puppy. The next day was his birthday so I said, "She could be a birthday present." We drove right to the vet who gave her worm pills and bathed her in some anti-everything wash. When I got her back to the car, I said, "Jim, what should we name her?"
"Happy Birthday," he said not smiling at all.
So now we have good old Rita, giant Cosi and little Happy B.
NO MORE DOGS!!!!
You can see pictures of all our pets at Rita the Dog's Flickr link which you can find in the left hand column. Of course looking at pictures of the kids, when they are not yours, can be tedious. But they are soooo cute!
Verlyn Klinkenberg in the New York Times wrote today:
“[James] Madison said, simply, that we have no reason to suppose that all of Earth’s resources, which support so much living diversity, can rightfully be commandeered to support mankind alone. It seems incredible to me, in 2007, that a former president could articulate such an environmentally sound principle of conscience. But it’s a principle that should move to the very center of our thinking. It should cause us to re-examine not just how we shop and what we drive and who we elect but also how our species reproduces.