The Smart Old Poodle
 
A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her faithful aged poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.

One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that she's lost. Wandering about, she notices a leopard heading rapidly in her direction with the intention of having lunch.

The old poodle thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep shit now!"  Noticing some bones on the ground close by, she immediately settles down to chew on the bones with her back to the approaching cat.

Just as the leopard is about to leap, the old poodle exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?"
 
Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees.  "Whew!", says the leopard, "That was close! That old poodle nearly had me!"  

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard.

So off he goes, but the old poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something
must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.

The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!"

Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?"  But instead of running, the dog sits down with her back to her attackers, pretending she hasn't seen  
them yet.  

And just when they get close enough to hear, the old poodle says: "Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!"
 
Moral of this story..
Don't mess with old farts!  Bullshit and brilliance only come with age and experience!

I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  Mine was petty much the same as last weekend although it was warmer this weekend. 

I'm tired today - must be the cloudy, pouring rain, weather making me tired, because I sure as heck didn't do anything this weekend that would have made me tired.  Stupid tired making weather.  Although, it does bring flowers and green, green grass. 

Theresa, tomorrow is a full moon.  Pretty cool as it signals the end of winter.  It has been known to snow here in April - I'm hoping we've seen the last of it.  It's supposed to get back into the 30's tomorrow.

March 14, 6:35 p.m. - The Full Worm Moon.

In this month the ground softens and the earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of the robins.  The more northern tribes knew this as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter, or the Full Crust Moon because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night.  The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. In addition, a very minor penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on this night; the Moon will pass through the Earth’s outer and cause a slight tarnishing or smudginess to appear on its lower rim.  The darkest phase of this eclipse comes at 6:48 p.m. EST.  For about 40 minutes before and after this time, the subtle penumbral shading may be detected with binoculars and even the naked eye.

Nikki and Daniel are doing great.  Their apartment is coming along nice.  Eric is getting bigger and bigger every time I see him.  I can hardly believe how much he's changed in just the week I didn't see him.  He is always smiling and kicking his legs and I love the grin when you catch his eye and say hello.  My heart melts. 

I'll be dealing with paying bills after work and cooking dinner and doing a little laundry.  Not much else new other than that.  You all take care!

I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  Mine was pretty good.

Friday we went to Johnny C's for dinner.  They must have gotten a new cook, because nothing tasted the same as it usually does.  The veal was pounded down so flat all you could taste was the breading and there was hardly any of the garlic, lemon juice on it so it really tasted like dry cardboard.  Kevin's haddock was very dry, rather that nice and moist like it usually is.  We were disappointed, but figured maybe if we wait a few months to go again it will have gotten better.  Actually it has to because if others were as dissatisfied as we were, their business will drop off and they'll eventually figure out why.  Next Friday we will go to 99 Diner.  Kevin hasn't been there yet.  I've been for lunch and they were very good, so we'll see how dinner is.

Nikki's apartment is very nice.  It's a Duplex and a good sized one.  They have a nice sliding glass door with a pretty large yard that will be nice this summer.  Now that I was there and took a look I know some of the things she needs and the sizes, such as curtains, and such.  I meant to take a few pictures of the apartment for her to post on her blog Thursday, but I forgot. 

All in all it was a nice weekend.  Charlie bowled a 570 triple for his bowling tournament which made him mad.  He is used to bowling over a 600 triple.  They got home at noontime and we just hung out at home, ate dinner and called it a weekend.

The weather is getting nicer.  It's quite cold out but the sun is shining and it's supposed to make it up to 36 degrees.  I'm betting maybe 40.  Friday is supposed to be 50 and Saturday 56.  I sure do hope it lasts right through summer now.

 Well - I'm off to so some visiting, and finish up my work since I'm leaving early today.  Take care and I hope your Monday is good. 

Eric and Gramma (a.k.a. the Silver Fox)

according to my hubby

Clariol Time!

Well, it's Thursday morning and back to normal now that the guys are back from their Las Vegas party business trip.  Business as usual…

 I finished up my work until the postman gets here and to my dismay I realized I had eaten all my crackers and I still have Cheeze Whiz left.  Oh well, a trip to the grocery store during lunch will fix that.  I will be glad when I get out of my Cheese Whiz and cracker stage.  This much salt and cheese cannot be good for me.  I remember the time I was on a Brach's Butterscotch Candy phase.  I was so afraid of going into a sugar coma before that phase ended.  Does everyone go through food phases like I do?  Or am I just the weird one?  There has been Cheese Doodles, M&M's, Chips and Onion Dip, um….jello.  What could possibly be next?

 We were due to get a huge snowstorm today, but it has been downgraded to just a dusting.  I am so relieved.  There is still snow on the ground from last time.  My car needs a good washing because of all the salt and such. There is a carwash by the grocery store, so I will stop there and hope the car doesn't freeze up from the cold on my way back to work..

I emailed my Partylite candle consultant this morning as I have discovered I am almost out of candles.  I love candles, but will only use the Colonial Candle brand that Partylite sells as I am spoiled by the way they burn.  I was a consultant for a few years and did quite well at it.  I stopped because it took up so much of my time.  Had to choose between a regular paycheck or the sales commission paycheck.  I took the one with the health insurance and sure paycheck.  But I'm thinking that maybe I'll go back to selling someday.  It's a fun and easy way to earn money and it's something I can do from home.

 Ok - I'm off to do the bank deposit, and will do some visiting when I get back.  Maybe I can get all the way though my list today.  I need to get going because I have to stop licking all the cheese whiz off this plastic knife.  It is so addicting….