We did not plan it this way, but ended up giving Molly away… The optimal number of dogs we can have is two; we currently have three because out latest one, Bella, is totally maintenance-free; all she means to the 'operation' is an extra ration of dog food a day (and a little bit of 'sugar'). Molly, on the other hand, was a hand full, no pun intended. Being a puppy, she was an ever-ready bunny all the time; she was a cutie pie but it was too much for us to do her training and upbringing right. So, the Warren County Humane Society found a family who wanted her and who also committed to have her as an indoors dog (not chained to a tree outside, 365.25 days a year!). On Wednesday, we took her along with her two beds, her bowls, her outfit, her toys, her playpen and her leash to the HS guy. We also told him very clearly that, if that did not work out, we wanted her back and not given to just anybody…
… and how ‘bout little brother Eli, the Patriots Slayer? What a game! I never before saw a pro football game where the first play was a safety, let alone the Super Bowl! So, for the second time in five years, the NY Giants and the NE Patriots met in the Super Bowl and the Giants managed to come out on top, again! Eli was simply superb (where is Tikki Barber and all his garbage on these days?)… Now, to be fair, if Welker and Hernandez had not dropped those two ‘for-sure’ passes in the last NE drive (which they caught hundreds of time during the season and can do it in their sleep!), the story might have been different… The Patriots will be back in contention next year, for sure; the Giants will struggle again and Eli will have to prove himself all over – again – only to be back and win yet another Super Bowl!
What’s going on with our Republican brethren and their inability to make up their minds? Last week Romney looked like the ‘chosen one' with solid, convincing wins in Florida and Nevada; the feeling of inevitability was everywhere and the folks at Fox News were salivating and already declaring Mitt as the redeemer… And then comes this week, when Mitt the Messiah got spanked in Minnesota and Missouri, and then trounced and embarrassed in Colorado, all at the hands of the same guy that have been, until now, considered only an annoyance, a by-line, a filler… I don’t understand… Is it going to be, at the end, my man Ron Paul who would take the fight up to Obama for all the marbles? Would love to see that…
Meanwhile, here in Hawks Bluff there have been – over the last few months - a series of failed water wells which may be alarming… Some, like mine and some other friends’ in Phase III, were allegedly hit by lighting and the pumps were ‘fried’; needed to be replaced and, depending on your deductible, the insurance helped or not (replacement cost of about $2k). Others, have literally gone dry and the wells have had to be either drilled deeper or elsewhere; yet others have collapsed, where the walls cave in destroying the hole and taking ‘hostage’ the pump; with this last one I learned that, when they drill the hole, only the first 20-25 feet from the surface down have a metal jacket, a pipe; after that, the hole is unprotected and is maintained open by the quality of the rock. If it is solid rock, you’re in good shape; if it is soft or otherwise sandy, any of the sonic booms we frequently get around here may be enough to send the walls of your well tumbling down… Lastly, it is rumored that the availability and volume of water is not as plenty as it was once portrayed (during the ‘sales cycle’); so, those of us who saw the slow down on building activities around here as a bad sign need to rethink the whole deal and consider it a blessing… The fewer there are of us around here, the better our odds for continuous water supply!
Now, some trivia for you: The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine guns ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. So, if the pilot fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards"!
Stay curious, my friends…
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