On 8/10/2015 5:21 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:33:23 -0500, George Shirley
wrote:

On 8/10/2015 9:38 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:36:52 -0500, George Shirley
wrote:

Tilly Dawg got a rat in the garden today, saw her ears go up and then
she pounced and brought me a nice sized field rat, probably from the
retention pond area behind our house. She didn't eat it though, just
killed it and brought it to me so it went straight to the trash can and
today is trash pick up day. Good Dawg!

Oh, you'll like this tale then...

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/inde...ckstarter.html

That is a great story, I was grinning by the end of it. Here in Texas
they frown only if you kill someone else's dog or the someone else. From
the TV news you would think this is kill someone city but, with over
five million people living here in the Houston area, that's not even
news anymore.

This episode was all over the news here in NJ when it happened. What a
dust-up.

If the authorities ever knew how many critters were relocated off our
property, they'd flip out. We've been kind enough not to drown them
all and my husband has done work at an industrial facility down near
one of the nearby rivers where our the ground hogs would fit right in.

Local regs say if you get animal services to trap destructive animals,
they have to be killed on the property or released.

I was surprised that Tilly wouldn't eat the rat because our old rat
terrier would even eat the cats she killed when they came in our yard.
Tilly won't even chase cats away, she thinks they want to play. Right
now she's snoring away on the couch here in my office.

I don't know how I ended up with a snoring wife and a snoring dog and
they're snoring at different octaves.

You should have heard my husband, though it is very quiet here now
that he has a CPAP.

My wife and our daughter are both on CPAP's, wife for about ten years,
daughter for maybe two years. Daughter was born in 1961 and even snored
as a baby. Wife didn't snore for most of our 55 year marriage but when
she started it was startling. She claims I snore too but I've never
heard myself two rooms away. G And I've never awakened with a dry
throat. At least neither of them talks in their sleep, eldest
granddaughter carries on complete conversations while sleeping. When she
was young she would be arguing with her brothers, now that she's
approaching thirty I don't know who she argues with.

My sleeping problem is a busy mind, I wake up and find I've been
figuring out how to build, tear down, move, or whatever some project I
have in mind. To bad I don't write in my sleep.

Actually, if wife or dog quits snoring I wake up alarmed. Gets scary at
times.

Repeating thermometer on the shaded back porch says we are at 104F right
here at 1855 hours CST.