Laurie, Fudge, and Vern's Blog – July 2012 Archive (5)

Vern came home last night exhausted.  For the past couple of months he has been taking an intermediate dog training class and last night was our last class.  It isn’t easy being the only dog in class who rolls at every opportunity and follows right behind you, as you are walking away from him, during the sit/stay.  I love Vern and he makes me smile every day, but I think I can say without hurting his feelings, that he is not a deep thinker.  Vern is an “in the moment” kind of dog.  When my…

Most of you know that I don’t like to be a name dropper, but after I wrote a blog about Words with Friends, I started playing the game with some people right here on DoodleKisses.   Sometimes, I have eight to ten games going at a time with family and friends and my love life has taken a hit as I sit in bed every night playing this game.   No man likes to hear, “not now, honey, this WWF game gave me a h-e-a-d-a-c-h-e, “ night after night.  The other night, he spelled back, “I…

It is strange sometimes what you think about when you are walking your dogs.  Despite being on high alert for groundhog holes, moving varmints, and in the case of Vern, men in lawn chairs, a lot goes through my mind when I am out with my dogs.  I have been a little melancholy lately thinking about my daughter living so far away in Oregon.  I hate it and with each passing day it seems as if there is no hope they will ever move closer to home.  They moved there for her job, but my son-in-law…

The Neil Diamond concert was on July 1 in Cleveland, OH.  My mom was going to get there come hell or high water.  Every member of her family knew she was going and even her heart Doctor had asked her to take pictures and bring them with her at the next appointment.  Four days before she was due to leave, she went to Bridge Club and I am beginning to have my suspicions about what goes on there, and came home and propped her legs up, only to see that they were swollen to double the size. …

This past week Andy Griffith died and I loved Andy Griffith.  Of course, I didn’t know him personally, but he has been in my home for years.  I was introduced to him as Sheriff Andy Taylor and I thought Mayberry, North Carolina, seemed like just about the best place in the world to grow up.  Sometimes, when they are running the Andy Griffith marathon on TV, I kid my husband about watching episode after episode, but I find myself listening for that whistle that starts the show and checking…