My Least Favorite Things!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

No one has ever accused me of having a voice like an angel, or even like Julie Andrews in the movie, Sound of Music.  In fact, last Christmas my oldest daughter bought me a Karaoke machine and no one will help me set the thing up.  I begged again this Christmas and the two people who reside in this house with me told the two people who got to fly back to Oregon after Christmas to please not help me or else.  Even without my microphone, I sing everyday and I love to make up songs.  Usually, I belt them out in the morning while I am getting ready for the day.  This works well for me when it is just Fudge and Vern in the house, but on the weekends I have to sing through the pain of the audience all but throwing rotten tomatoes at me and heckling me with comments like, “will you please shut up…your voice is so shrill I think you just broke my eardrums…Hayley, check outside. Is there an animal dying?....God in heaven, make it stop.”   Oh well, all good artists know you have to keep working at your craft.  Well, last night the lyrics to my next song came to me while I was sleeping and I wanted to write them down before I forgot them.  Please feel free to sing them along with me to the tune of My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music.

 

My Least Favorite Things

 

Raindrops on muddy paws and poop bags and mittens

Bright yellow throw up and warm hissing kittens

Brown paper packages with urine samples inside

These are a few of dog things I abide

 

Cream colored messy dogs and crisp winter days

Walks in all weather and rough housing called play

Wild geese that fly above and taunt my poor dogs

Sometimes prompting my least favorite jogs

 

Dogs in all colors with their long golden tethers

Cause me to issue corrections and swear like a mother

Silver white snowballs that cling to their fur

These are a few of the things I endure

 

When the dogs fight

When the pee stains

When I want to cry

I simple remember I love these two dogs

And then I don’t ask myself “why?”

Feel free to add a stanza or two because singing really is a great stress reliever, even if you don't sound like Barbra Streisand.

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

F, you rock! Good one (so I'll overlook that comment about Hammerstein :-)

[F, Calla & Luca]

Whew.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Finally, F, is here. Where were you all morning? LOL Good job!!

[F, Calla & Luca]

I have a life : ) Actually allergy shot, walked doodles, luch with friend, reporting gas leak etc.

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Gas leak at your home? Did they come out and find it?

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

Can't help myself - what exactly did you have for lunch that caused you to leak gas???  (Sorry, 25 years as a middle school teacher has me permanently stuck with juvenille humor!)

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

LOL Deanna!

[F, Calla & Luca]

I see that. But here's my post from the science group as a rebuttal:

"Speaking of which I just saved my neighborhood. Dogs may have keener noses but they cannot make phone calls AFAIK. I had been getting momentary whiffs of natural gas, really the odor they add to it, when we walked past the end of my property, about 200 feet from my house, on the street. My neighbor, who I enlisted to check it out, smelled nothing. But today I called the gas company. The young man, who appeared within a half hour, found a small gas leak, "ventilated it with a bang bar" and told me the repair would be done in a few days. He thinks it's in the feeder connection  to a neighbor across the street."

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Lucky, F. That's a bit scary.

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

We had a similar situation where we thought we were smelling it at our meter.  When the gas company came it turned out to be the next door neighbors house.  Their carbon monoxide levels in the house were off the chart!  Fortunately they weren't home.  FD, town cops and gas company were all in their house when someone finally tracked them down and they got home!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Very scary. I have a carbon monoxide detector upstairs and downstairs.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Me too. Too many stories of families killed while sleeping. Chimney caps are vital too I think so that flues don't get blocked.