We have had about
a foot of snow over the past two days. For those who don’t understand imperial
measures, it is twelve inches of snow, which is about 30 CMs more or less. Take
a few minutes, take your nose out of your cell phone and learn imperial measures.
It won’t hurt and it makes life just a trifle easier for me. That is a lot of
snow for any time of year, but it is way, way, way too much for the end of
September. I understand that the drive to work was horrible this morning and I
feel for those poor people who are getting up and going to work just to
contribute to my pension. Thanks!
My dog Buster
hasn’t been feeling very good for the past week or so. After a few days and
then a visit to the vet we are now giving him some medication and have changed
his diet to a rice and hamburger mix. Before this he was puking and had very,
very, very loose stools. I felt bad for the little guy. In the past I have had
the same problems but my whining and moaning let the people around me know that
something was wrong. Buster was a brave little soldier.
When I retired
about 11 years ago I had a choice of retirement gifts that the Post Office
would give me. There was the typical gold plated watch. I was given a watch
after 25 years, which I almost never wear so I really didn’t need another one.
There was a very small selection of desk clocks (two) which although nice
enough, were kind of useless since I don’t use my desk for anything but piling
papers on. The piled papers would very quickly cover up the desk clock making
it less than useless. So, no to the desk clocks. The other choice was a small
pair of binoculars. I was very surprised because binoculars are actually useful
and I didn’t expect that from the Post Office. I chose the binoculars.
Over the years I
have taken those binoculars with me on vacation, trips to the mountains and
when I wanted to spy on the neighbours without their knowledge. Don’t judge me!
Most of the time they sit on the shelf beside my bed waiting patiently to
fulfill their primary function. Sometimes I use them to check out the birds in
the backyard or the squirrels in the trees out front. I see if I can spy on the
people up the alley across the street. As you can tell, the desk clock may have
had more use over the years.
Today I did use
the binoculars. I have had trouble for the past couple of snowy days to see
what shape Buster’s stools were in because if he went then it was in relatively
deep snow and quickly hidden by all of the new snow that was falling. Early
this morning I shoveled a path around the backyard for Buster to walk around
and hopefully do his business in. In short order it was very green grass
surrounded by very white snow which is really pretty and should help the stool
stand out. I stood in the bedroom with the binoculars searching for any dogshit
that might be visible. I wasn’t successful, but I did check to see if the
neighbours were up to anything interesting. They weren’t, and the birds were
noticeable by their absence.
I am going up to
the bedroom as soon as I finish this and will do another search using my Post
Office supplied spy glasses. Maybe I need to get another hobby…
