not that anyone missed me while I was gone. I am hoping my long delay will mean that I can go back to posting anonymously. Someone clued in a few too many people that I know about this blog and people started questioning my comments TO MY FACE. Yeah, I hate that. So I took a vacation in hopes those people would get on with their lives and forget that I have a blog where I am entitled to have opinions. Enough, already.

I have missed writing about junk that bugs me. So...what to talk about today. Let's start with our new dog. I never wanted the first dog...really. I am not a pet person (dogs are messy, smelly and noisy) but God saw fit to give me a daughter who is an animal lover so I'm trying to be a good parent. I swear we would have our very own menagerie (okay, took three tries to spell that right) if it was up to DQ. So I gave in and let her have A dog. Darn Dog is kind, QUIET, and well-behaved. That should have been a clue to anyone that we do not need to press our luck...but we did. A woman I work with brought her puppies TO OUR HOUSE in a basket and offered my kids their pick. (She is never to be allowed in the front door again.) She had three miniature dachshunds...two girls, one boy. My boy, picked the boy dog. He has a name...but we all (ALL of us) call him Bad Dog. He is the worst behaved, most ill mannered, LOUDEST dog I have ever seen. (My friend, the dog owner, later told me that the two girl dogs went to the same home and were BROUGHT BACK two weeks later...I didn't know there was a give back policy...it I had, Bad Dog would've been history!) This little tiny dog has chewed holes in my wall, he chewed a piece of siding three times his size off the back of the house and he eats everything in sight, edible or not. If he weren't so darn cute I would really, really hate this dog.