Here's a fun random video I found: It shows 42 St. Bernards romping with a child in a British Columbia rain forest. Very magical feel to it, and the sound of 42 St. Bernards romping around and huffing and puffing is pretty cool.
The St. Bernards are from Lasquite Saint Bernards, a breeder out there in British Columbia. Here's the very fun video:
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The BEST Whitney Houston Tribute Ever!
I know, I know, the tragic death of Whitney Houston is all over the news, and you probably didn't want me to go on and on here, but bear with me. This is good.
Of all the tributes to Houston I've seen, this one's the best. It's a 90 year old woman marking the singing sensation's passing by dancing to Houston's hit, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."
The video came from a Facebook page called "My 90-Year-Old Grandma,"put together by her loving grandson, who takes care of her.
The woman likes to dance, and here's a great passage from the Facebook page, noting that the woman enjoys dancing in the car when a good song comes on the radio. Here's the dialogue:
Grandma: "I should stop dancing or everyone will think there's a crazy old lady having a seizure."
Grandson: "Don't worry. The windows are tinted. I don't think they can see in."
Grandma: "Then roll down the windows!"
You gotta love a lady like that. Of course I love anyone who makes a lie out of the stereotype that old age means no movement, no fun, no joy. I wish everyone had a woman as vivacious as this in their lives.
Here's this wonderful woman's Whitney Houston tribute. It will make you smile even if you are mourning the singer's passing:
Of all the tributes to Houston I've seen, this one's the best. It's a 90 year old woman marking the singing sensation's passing by dancing to Houston's hit, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."
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| This wonderful 90-year-old woman offered the best Whitney Houston tribute I've seen. |
The video came from a Facebook page called "My 90-Year-Old Grandma,"put together by her loving grandson, who takes care of her.
The woman likes to dance, and here's a great passage from the Facebook page, noting that the woman enjoys dancing in the car when a good song comes on the radio. Here's the dialogue:
Grandma: "I should stop dancing or everyone will think there's a crazy old lady having a seizure."
Grandson: "Don't worry. The windows are tinted. I don't think they can see in."
Grandma: "Then roll down the windows!"
You gotta love a lady like that. Of course I love anyone who makes a lie out of the stereotype that old age means no movement, no fun, no joy. I wish everyone had a woman as vivacious as this in their lives.
Here's this wonderful woman's Whitney Houston tribute. It will make you smile even if you are mourning the singer's passing:
Monday, January 30, 2012
Putting the Dogs To Work
Our dog Jackson gives us a lot of joy, that's for sure. He's goofy and energetic and has a lot of love to offer.
But, selfish me, sometimes I want something more. Jackson goes through dog food as if he was trying to win the World Eating Championship, so that gets expensive. And he loves eating socks, too, especially when said socks have been worn and smell really ripe. This means I'm always spending money on new socks.
So, why not put Jackson to work? Why can't he contribute to paying the phone bill, the heating bill, the mortgage? Hey, we're always being told by certain polticians we don't deserve a free ride, so work, work work!
Our Jackson is pretty strong, and he has unlimited energy, so maybe he can run a branch office of my landscaping business. Lord knows he loves branches, the way he always carries them around. He can gnaw down brush homeowners don't want, then put them in a nice pile for disposal.
Jackson eats flowers in gardens, so maybe we can train him to eat weeds instead.
To impart a work ethic on Jackson, I'll show him the video that I found that shows a nice dog working as a receptionist in a veterinarian's office. It's true. He deals with receipts, and makes sure the clients leave with all the necessary paperwork that tracks the health of all those Fidos and Fluffys.
Watch our canine career gal working, below:
But, selfish me, sometimes I want something more. Jackson goes through dog food as if he was trying to win the World Eating Championship, so that gets expensive. And he loves eating socks, too, especially when said socks have been worn and smell really ripe. This means I'm always spending money on new socks.
So, why not put Jackson to work? Why can't he contribute to paying the phone bill, the heating bill, the mortgage? Hey, we're always being told by certain polticians we don't deserve a free ride, so work, work work!
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| Jackson the landscaper, hauling away a stick from our yard in St. Albans, Vermont. |
Our Jackson is pretty strong, and he has unlimited energy, so maybe he can run a branch office of my landscaping business. Lord knows he loves branches, the way he always carries them around. He can gnaw down brush homeowners don't want, then put them in a nice pile for disposal.
Jackson eats flowers in gardens, so maybe we can train him to eat weeds instead.
To impart a work ethic on Jackson, I'll show him the video that I found that shows a nice dog working as a receptionist in a veterinarian's office. It's true. He deals with receipts, and makes sure the clients leave with all the necessary paperwork that tracks the health of all those Fidos and Fluffys.
Watch our canine career gal working, below:
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Muppets are Communists! Stop Them!
Thank goodness for the ever-vigilant Fox News for alerting us to the latest menance. Turns out the Muppets are anti-corporate communists who are out to destroy America and our way of life.
Fox uncovered the evidence in the latest Muppet movie, called, predictably enough, The Muppets. In the film the villian is named Tex Richman, who wants to buy and tear down The Muppet Theatre and drill for oil on that spot.
By painting the oil guy as a villian, the makers of the movie, as well as Hollywood in general, are indoctrinating our kids to hate corporations and the oil industry, so says Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center, who appeared recently on Fox's "Follow the Money" program to make his comments.
Say Gainor:
"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message,"
He added:
"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry... They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it."
Well, how un-American! How dare the Muppets do anything but portray the oil industry in a positive light! As Gainor points out, we need the oil industry to help fuel ambulances, keep hospitals heated and lit and all kinds of good stuff. I guess we need more movies about ambulances with full gas tanks and hospitals that are comfortably warm and well lit.
Frankly, I've always suspected those dastardly Muppets, despite their sunny, humorous exterior. I can find the dark side of all the characters, now that I think of it.
Kermit the Frog is the obvious one. He sings about how it isn't easy being green, an obvious appeal from radical environmentalists to let them rid the world of pavement and buildings.
At first glance, Miss Piggy seems glamorous enough, for a pig anyway, but certainly she's like those protestors who dress up in gowns and tuxes to mock the very rich.
Rowlf the dog reminds me of Ed Asner, who is well known for his liberal, decidedly left of center views.
Fozzie Bear is always saying "Wocka! Wocka! Wocka!" which is clearly coded instructions to those insurgent Occupy Wall Street protestors.
And ever notice how awry Dr. Bunson Honeydew's experiments go awry, to the repeated detriment of the hapless Beaker? Obviously, he represents an attack on chemical corporations' business. And notice how Dr. Bunson Honeydew has no eyes. That's a leftist accusation that the chemical industry turns a blind eye to the health and safety of the public.
OK, maybe Gainor is being a bit melodramatic. After all, so many story lines in movies involve underdogs who defeat the powerful. It's a standard American meme. Aspirational Americans want to get ahead through grit, honesty and smarts, and they relate to the underdogs.
And corporations, whether good or evil, tend to be powerful. Since movies like the Muppets need a powerful villian, a fictional corporation is a good stand in. Surely Gainor doesn't think that a fictional oil baron in a kid's comedy movie is anticorporate, communist propoganda.
Oh wait, he does. We're all entitled to our opinions, I guess.
And, um, Mr. Gainor, The Muppet movie was presented to us by Disney. Isn't Disney a big corporation that the communist Muppets are supposed to hate?
In any event, appropos of nothing, the Muppet movie kerfuffle has me taking a trip down memory lane. My past is goofy, and a Muppet related memory is a classic example.
When my sister Lynn and I were really little, we were enamored by this little Muppet ditty, which to this day I still find catchy:
I would do the mahna, mahnz part, and Lynn was "Doo, doo, doo doo." When I'd get carried away on the Mahna, mahnas, as the character in the video does, she'd cuff me in the head, I'd calm down, and quietly, say, "mahna, mahna," she would happily offer a "doo doo doo doo," and the whole process would start over. Ah, we were such well adjusted kids!
I hope it doesn't mean we were budding communists.
Fox uncovered the evidence in the latest Muppet movie, called, predictably enough, The Muppets. In the film the villian is named Tex Richman, who wants to buy and tear down The Muppet Theatre and drill for oil on that spot.
By painting the oil guy as a villian, the makers of the movie, as well as Hollywood in general, are indoctrinating our kids to hate corporations and the oil industry, so says Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center, who appeared recently on Fox's "Follow the Money" program to make his comments.
Say Gainor:
"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message,"
He added:
"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry... They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it."
Well, how un-American! How dare the Muppets do anything but portray the oil industry in a positive light! As Gainor points out, we need the oil industry to help fuel ambulances, keep hospitals heated and lit and all kinds of good stuff. I guess we need more movies about ambulances with full gas tanks and hospitals that are comfortably warm and well lit.
Frankly, I've always suspected those dastardly Muppets, despite their sunny, humorous exterior. I can find the dark side of all the characters, now that I think of it.
Kermit the Frog is the obvious one. He sings about how it isn't easy being green, an obvious appeal from radical environmentalists to let them rid the world of pavement and buildings.
At first glance, Miss Piggy seems glamorous enough, for a pig anyway, but certainly she's like those protestors who dress up in gowns and tuxes to mock the very rich.
Rowlf the dog reminds me of Ed Asner, who is well known for his liberal, decidedly left of center views.
Fozzie Bear is always saying "Wocka! Wocka! Wocka!" which is clearly coded instructions to those insurgent Occupy Wall Street protestors.
And ever notice how awry Dr. Bunson Honeydew's experiments go awry, to the repeated detriment of the hapless Beaker? Obviously, he represents an attack on chemical corporations' business. And notice how Dr. Bunson Honeydew has no eyes. That's a leftist accusation that the chemical industry turns a blind eye to the health and safety of the public.
OK, maybe Gainor is being a bit melodramatic. After all, so many story lines in movies involve underdogs who defeat the powerful. It's a standard American meme. Aspirational Americans want to get ahead through grit, honesty and smarts, and they relate to the underdogs.
And corporations, whether good or evil, tend to be powerful. Since movies like the Muppets need a powerful villian, a fictional corporation is a good stand in. Surely Gainor doesn't think that a fictional oil baron in a kid's comedy movie is anticorporate, communist propoganda.
Oh wait, he does. We're all entitled to our opinions, I guess.
And, um, Mr. Gainor, The Muppet movie was presented to us by Disney. Isn't Disney a big corporation that the communist Muppets are supposed to hate?
In any event, appropos of nothing, the Muppet movie kerfuffle has me taking a trip down memory lane. My past is goofy, and a Muppet related memory is a classic example.
When my sister Lynn and I were really little, we were enamored by this little Muppet ditty, which to this day I still find catchy:
I would do the mahna, mahnz part, and Lynn was "Doo, doo, doo doo." When I'd get carried away on the Mahna, mahnas, as the character in the video does, she'd cuff me in the head, I'd calm down, and quietly, say, "mahna, mahna," she would happily offer a "doo doo doo doo," and the whole process would start over. Ah, we were such well adjusted kids!
I hope it doesn't mean we were budding communists.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Dogs Top Notch at Running Free, Greeting Friends
It's been four months since Jackson the cocker spaniel moved into our St. Albans, Vermont house, and of course now I'm the worlds most hopeless dog lover. Always liked 'em, but now I'm obnoxious about it.
I'm given to heart-tugging stories about dogs, and every once in awhile, I post my favorites.
Jackson is happiest when he can run full tilt around the yard, chasing frisbees, sticks, bugs and assorted real and imagined playmates. Almost all dogs are like that.
So now that a video about beagles rescued from a research lab has gone viral, I paid attention. The video shows the beagles, who have never been in the sun or walked or run around on grass, react as their cages are opened for the first time.
These beagles have since been adopted into good homes.
In the video, the beagles are awfully tentative at first, but they soon figure out playing on grassy lawns is The Way It Ought To Be.
One of my favorite moments with Jackson is his greetings. Whether I've been gone three days or 30 seconds his greeting when he sees me is always the same. His tail wags so wildly that his little butt swings back and forth like that of a runway fashion model on wayyyyyy to much speed.
He is bursting so desperately to greet me that you a high pitched whine, and then, the embrace. He jumps up to lick my face, then runs circles around me, stopping every second or so for another jump and kiss. These reunions are exhausting, let me tell you. But they're worth it.
It's just the way dogs are, but Jackson's greeting does feel like I'm being treated like a returning war hero, when in fact I'm just returning from the store with a gallon of milk.
If Jackson gets this excited to see me, imagine the excitement of dogs whose human companions come home from a military overseas deployment. These really are war heroes returning home. To get an idea of that, check out this video VERY sweet:
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| Jeff bought me this "Woof" sticker to match the one on his Jeep, confirming us as dedicated dog lovers. |
I'm given to heart-tugging stories about dogs, and every once in awhile, I post my favorites.
Jackson is happiest when he can run full tilt around the yard, chasing frisbees, sticks, bugs and assorted real and imagined playmates. Almost all dogs are like that.
So now that a video about beagles rescued from a research lab has gone viral, I paid attention. The video shows the beagles, who have never been in the sun or walked or run around on grass, react as their cages are opened for the first time.
These beagles have since been adopted into good homes.
In the video, the beagles are awfully tentative at first, but they soon figure out playing on grassy lawns is The Way It Ought To Be.
One of my favorite moments with Jackson is his greetings. Whether I've been gone three days or 30 seconds his greeting when he sees me is always the same. His tail wags so wildly that his little butt swings back and forth like that of a runway fashion model on wayyyyyy to much speed.
He is bursting so desperately to greet me that you a high pitched whine, and then, the embrace. He jumps up to lick my face, then runs circles around me, stopping every second or so for another jump and kiss. These reunions are exhausting, let me tell you. But they're worth it.
It's just the way dogs are, but Jackson's greeting does feel like I'm being treated like a returning war hero, when in fact I'm just returning from the store with a gallon of milk.
If Jackson gets this excited to see me, imagine the excitement of dogs whose human companions come home from a military overseas deployment. These really are war heroes returning home. To get an idea of that, check out this video VERY sweet:
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