You sometimes have to open your eyes wide to avoid some of the traps you come across during your lifetime. I stumbled out without my glasses this morning to fetch the paper. As I bent over, I reached out to pat the head of one of my dogs who was sitting nearby and got bit hard on my hand. I quickly closed my hand around the neck of my pet and yanked it close so as to give it a hard rap with the extended knuckle of my middle finger right on the top of the noggin, such being the established punishment for biting the hand that feeds you, and found myself face-to-tooth-gnashing-face with the meanest looking animal I have ever seen in my life. I am still not sure what it was or what it was doing in my front yard, but I quickly flung the creature away. It hit the ground, looked down in recoil, as if it was surprised it could see no shadow, which everyone knows is almost impossible on such a cloudy day as this, then it was off, burrowing quickly into the ground, hopefully not to be seen again around these parts for a long, long time ... a year or so, at least.
As an extra for some of ya'll joke loving folks, I left something special in the extended entry.
Over breakfast, a woman said to her husband, "I'll bet you don't know what day it is."Posted by Tiger at February 2, 2005 01:13 PM"Of course, I do," he answered, as if offended. He drained the last drop of his coffee and left for work.
At 10:00 a.m., the doorbell rang. The woman was handed a box containing a dozen long-stemmed red roses. At 1:00 p.m., there was a delivery of a box of Godiva chocolates. Later in the afternoon, a brightly wrapped box was delivered from Victoria's Secret.
The woman could no longer wait for her husband to return home, so called him.
"Oh, love," she stammered, "First flowers, then chocolates, and now lingerie ... I have never had such a wonderful Groundhog Day in my life."
Hey--at least he only bit your HAND! I think he bit my head this morning!
--TwoDragons
Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at February 2, 2005 09:03 PM