Just one quick bitch, part two

[DirtDawg]

Second day my daughter drives into work from her new place she rear ended someone and possibly totaled her car,  she's fine but 

That's tough!
I'm glad she is OK.

Mine still won't drive much.
Every time I feel I'm making headway with building their confidence, some idiot does something stupid right in front of us and I have to slam the brakes on and steer clear of having an accident myself.
It literally happens every few days, but sometimes it happens when they are in the car and so for either of them driving is OUT again.

Good thing she was not hurt!!

[DirtDawg]

I wish I had had my camera set up when the crows attacked the hawk again this morning.
I usually get out to see why the crows make so much noise and lately it has been about the hawks.
They came at this one in huge numbers again as they do, but this time the hawk flew up so high I lost track of him in the sky. I could still see the crows, seeming to gather to celebration, cawing, all.

Suddenly, like a lightning strike, the hawk came back into view and took out a huge crow with just one hit from talons. He let it fall and hovered casually on the up currents for a while. Then the hawk slowly floated down to about where the crow fell.
No other crows objected.

I have to love them both. What an amazing show.
No telling how many of these instances I have missed, but I got to see this one first hand.
I wish I could have filmed it!


I was not ready with my camera, that's the bitchy part!

[Parts]

Second day my daughter drives into work from her new place she rear ended someone and possibly totaled her car,  she's fine but 

That's tough!
I'm glad she is OK.

Mine still won't drive much.
Every time I feel I'm making headway with building their confidence, some idiot does something stupid right in front of us and I have to slam the brakes on and steer clear of having an accident myself.
It literally happens every few days, but sometimes it happens when they are in the car and so for either of them driving is OUT again.

Good thing she was not hurt!!

She didn't drive on the highway for a long time I hope this doesn't put her off doing it as she has an hour commute three days a week

[DirtDawg]

Not sure how it wouldn't. It did me at an early age.

[DirtDawg]

I am sad!

The sweet girl dog I had adopted a couple of years ago from an old lady who died in the old neighborhood (the second old dead person we found on our neighborhood watch, btw) was trying to protect me from another dog, shook off her collar and ran after the mean barky dog, right in front of a car and died today.

I know these things just happen sometimes, but I was very attached to her. She was so willing, after a bit, to join our little pack and make us her family. We had another dog (who is dead now, too) and she just found her place in the pecking order and loved everyone, even the other dog, Winkie. We lost Winkie a few months back.
Her name was, Jumpy. Jumpy is gone.
 

Now we have the one dog, Cupid, who is a chiweenie and absolutely adorable. He had been looking for her all afternoon.
I let him sniff her body and he was OK with it, once he understood.

[renaeden]

Omg, that awful, DirtDawg. I know how much you loved her by the way you've written about her. Part of your family. Dogs do that.

[DirtDawg]

Omg, that awful, DirtDawg. I know how much you loved her by the way you've written about her. Part of your family. Dogs do that.

Thanks.
It's going to be a rough few days ahead, but we still have one very loving pooch to attend and every one of us has other ways to get this behind us.

As with the others we lost, we just love the ones we have and keep going.
... or join them.

While some think a permanent solution to a temporary problem is an answer, I never have.

[rock hound]

Some fucking testosterone poisoned douche bag in a HUGE pickup truck tried passing me on an OFF ramp of the highway.  While I  was behind another truck with a large box trailer.  I saw him creeping and looking to pass on my left and it scared the fucking shit out of me.  I mean there is NO ROOM to pass on an off ramp.  I stuck my arm out in desperation to get him to back off and the douchebag thankfully slowed down and backed off.  And he winds up coming the same way as me.  I felt like he was trying to run me off the road.     To get by, when I was already very close to the truck trailer combo in front of me.  Testosterone poisoning at its finest.   

[Genesis]

The silence is beautiful... oh dear god... it's perfect, no annoyance, no nothing. I just hope I don't jynx myself...

[renaeden]

We've had the house inspection, only we weren't home for it. I needed the inspectors to have a look at the carport gate so they could organise for it to be fixed. Looks like I'll have to ring the maintenance line again.

[Genesis]

I'm only human! Not a cash cow! I am only human, not a punching bag! Now leave me alone you stupid twat before I call your mother!

[Genesis]

I'm only human! Not a cash cow! I am only human, not a punching bag! Now leave me alone you stupid twat before I call your mother!

WHY CAN'T SHE GET OUT OF MY HEAD!?!?!

[DirtDawg]

Yesterday I had two large blue jays come into my bird feeding areas. All the other birds left.

While I say I love all birds, even jays, if I had a bouncer bird to deploy, it would be to show them the door.
I would rather have a hundred birds of about ten kinds than just two birds.

Jays can be so brutal! The mocking birds were the first to return and challenge these meanies.
Even the much larger crows avoided the jays.

[Genesis]

Yesterday I had two large blue jays come into my bird feeding areas. All the other birds left.

While I say I love all birds, even jays, if I had a bouncer bird to deploy, it would be to show them the door.
I would rather have a hundred birds of about ten kinds than just two birds.

Jays can be so brutal! The mocking birds were the first to return and challenge these meanies.
Even the much larger crows avoided the jays.

I wonder if they're from Toronto

[Genesis]

I don't have much of a structured routine this week.... my next meeting with the job coach isn't until the 29th, with a follow-up the next day....

damn I'm going to be busy -_-