Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Pickles got another bath yesterday. He's due for a haircut, but that won't be until next week, and the longer his hair is, the faster he gets stinky! I tried an all-natural shampoo on him with oatmeal to see if that helps his itchy patches and I toweled him dry instead of blow drying him. It took 3 bath and 1 hand towels and my arms were pooped afterwards, but the dog needs TLC just like the rest of us!

Today he got his lyme shot - nervous nelly he is in the car. He gets excited about the *prospect* of getting in the car and going somewhere, but then shakes and pants all the way there.

I've got my usual monthly hormone-withdrawal headache that refuses to go away no matter what I do, so I'll be taking it easy today and actually for the next few days - no stress, thank you, no aggravation, no excitement, no talking, and I can make it through in one piece.

I'm going to work on some patterns and finally, get back to that long-suffering aran cardigan/jacket.

I proofed the Gazette, then sent it off to a kindly knitter to be proofed again.

Well, I packed hubby his lunch, did the dishes, am finishing up the laundry and will do as much work as I can handle today.

I hear gunshots in the distance - why hunters are in this area, I don't know - there's no state lands here - just private property. Ufda. Hand the deer each a gun, so at least it would be more equitable. Sport, yeah right. If they must allow deer hunting, it shouldn't be a sport, so a bunch of fools can have a head on their walls and brag to their equally foolish buddies. It should be herd maintenance only AND all the meat should go to the homeless and poor. Then, at least the poor animals would be of service to those who are the neediest in our abundant society, where a very small minority of people "need" to kill their meat or else starve.

But noooooo, the right to own a gun is the "American Way". Geez, as if we were still living in the Pioneer days. This cowboy mentality will forever be part of what holds America back from being seen as truly great and beneficent. Puritans, with a gun in one hand and the Bible in the other, and we wonder why the world shakes their collective heads. Off the soapbox, well, this one, at least, for now....