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The first Froggy Bottom Saturday Cafe — Sat Jun 18th, 2005 at 6:00:51 AM CST
Ooh, that looks like a nice place to sit and drink iced tea.
But, Iced Tea is OK.
(sigh)
I don’t know where everyone went. Maybe someone is having a party and forgot to invite us!
How was your taco dinner? I was horrible and had ice cream and microwave popcorn for dinner. Bad, bad!
hmm. That sounds good too. Maybe I should go out for ice cream.
I won’t, My dinner was good. and filling.
I need a stiff one. What a day.
My husband took our dog to the dog park for a run this morning. As he entered a man jogged up to him and suggested that my husband and our dog should leave, since his dog was aggressive. As Tom was turning to take our dog out, the other dog attacked and mauled our dog and bit my husband as he tried to get our dog free.
Tom need limited medical attention – tetanus shot and antibiotics. The poor dog need surgery to close up her approximately 8 bites. She’s home now with countless stitches and a drainage tube.
I can’t believe that someone would take a dog that they knew to be vicious to the dog park and let him run unleashed and unmuzzled. When we inquired as to the status of his shots, we were informed they were all up to date because the dog had recently been adopted from a shelter. Which also begs the question of how responible it was of the shelter to adopt out a viscious dog with no apparent follow up.
I’m pissed and I’m sad and I’m worried.
Sorry to be a downer in the dance hall.
Are you going to sue? It sounds like this guy needs to be stopped immediately. What a nightmare!
We’ve got a growing pitbull problem in the cities around here.
Thanks for the Jack Daniels. I’m not the suing kind, but I might make an exception in this case. First I will ask nicely for reimbursement for doctor/vet costs. We have filed a report with animal control in the county, hopefully they will have a heart to heart with the owners. I don’t blame the dog.
I really think you have to do something to stop this guy. I’d contact the City/County Attorney. And give them the names of the Emergency Room and Vets who treated your husband and dog.
It was actually an assault, since the guy essentially threatened your husband in advance. I know it came off as a warning, but it was a threat. That guy had no right to be in the park with that dog.
I agree with katiebird that you should pursue it — the owner of this dog is irresponsible and this probably isn’t the only time someone has been hurt and it probably won’t be last.
I’m not a sue-er either. But this is a dangerously irresponsible man. Or worse.
I agree. I don’t want the responsibility of the dog attacking anyone else. That’s why we filed a report with the county. I’ll follow up with them and see what their policy is. I would hate to see the dog put down, but if it can’t be socialized and the owner won’t control it, at the very least the animal needs to be placed in another situation.
We’ve been having storms and high winds and I haven’t been able to stay connected so I may not be around too long.
YES — I missed you. But, I thought you collapsed in exhaustion. Which is what I would have done after your day.
It’s Jim who has earned the collapse — he did all the driving (I’m not that fond of driving and he’s a terrible passenger). But spending a lot of hours in a car does make me sleepy — I think it’s the rhythm of it.
And has he collapsed? I think driving is tough on everyone, passengers and drivers.
Has the weather cleared up?
No, he’s still going but he looks sleeply.
It’s just raining now. But there may be more later.
It makes me sleepy and hungry, as if I had walked 100 miles instead of having sat on my ass cheeks and watched the scenery fly by.
I think it’s the enforced idleness that causes that. I always get the hungries on long car rides.
Game 7 — here we come baby!
It’s party time!
I never thought of you as the mini-skirt type. I’m really shocked.
It’s the hockey … brings out my wild side lol.
Wow, the Canes looked sad. Now that they look so bad my affinity for the underdog is kicking in and I guess I want them to win on Monday night. Plus, downtown Raleigh needs a good party.
I knew she
had great legs.
of Canadians has been upended.
You wouldn’t say that if you’d seen Prairie Giant.
really, really boring. Have you watched it?
I thought it was going to be a dry documentary.
But, it was really, really good. It was actually one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. I’d put it on my top 25-50 movies list.
It had a great script, acting, photography, scope of story. In every way it was excellent.
And it was a TOTAL surprise. I saw it because of my commitment to Health Care for Everyone. And I thought we’d start watching it but that I’d have to take it into another room to watch it by myself.
But, we put it in the player and the next thing we knew it was 3 hours later and we were both sobbing (well, I was sobbing, his eyes just glistened.)
Andi — it was an excellent, maybe perfect film.
😉
(smirk)
Oh, Canada!!
Andi said you looked sleepy. Actually she said sleeply. There you go faking energy well again with those !!!!s.
Did you catch the opening anthems? Hear the crowd singing?
Yes I did.
It was neat that the crowd sang both anthems. I liked the acapella version of the Canadian national anthem.
Usually half the stadium is off b/c of the size and acoustics etc. And I think some of it started when the Cdn anthem was booed in Anaheim. When they came back to Edmonton, the fans started singing the US anthem to show em up.
So, Olivia —
Are you the kind of person who sees the stadium as half full? Or do you see it as half empty?
I’d say I see a half empty stadium as a good thing, cause it means lineups to the washroom will be smaller … 😉
Very good!
And don’t forget the lines at the snack counters. And space to put your supplies in the empty seat next to you . . .
One game I was at the guy sitting next to me spilled his beer all over my leg … I smelled like a brewery all night.
Once someone poured something down my back when they jumped up. I hate drunk crowds.
Went to the Grey Cup when it was in Ottawa 2yrs ago, and the guy next to me snuck in all these little bottles of hard liquor — had them stuffed down his pants, under his hat, in his shirt, socks … everywhere. He’d take one out swallow in one gulp and then pull another out. He was so obnoxious, and he kept trying to get me to drink them. Calling me a tee-totaller b/c I wouldn’t drink from the bottle he just whipped out of his pants. It was crazy there were so many drunk people around, we left early b/c we just couldn’t stand it anymore and didn’t want to get puked on.
Way to go! Game 7…YES!
Time for the Nine O’Clock Blues…
wuzup yawl?
Listening in now … 🙂
So. Got any non-clinical nocturnal experimentation in the plans for tonight?
this monastic life ain’t what it’s cracked up to be
Well that’s not so bad …Monastic lifestyle: good for your health?
Okay … the other day you gave me a hard time about deadheading my roses … that was on the 15th, and this evening this is what the damned bush looks like:
Seriously Out. Of. Control. 🙂
And I was saying if I don’t get them soon enough, the petals fall and make an absolute mess of things. Here’s proof. From the backyard, which I’ve neglected more than the front.
Just look at the mess they make:
I have to get out and clean up all those dropped petals.
I’ve learned something this week anyway, ha!
Art’s obviously a great teacher… How was you day today?
Started out with somewhat of a bang though with a wake up call at 9:46AM, “meet me at the Cajun Cafe in four and a half minutes”, ah, OK, but it will take me twenty just to get across town.
Thus started a six hour conversation with two friends, but we moved to a coffee shop about a 1/3 of the way through.
Then, to avoid Scandanavian guilt complex, stained the cedar railing on the deck here in the big city. So far just have the posts and horiz pieces installed.
Stopping now to avoid diary length.
Got names for those hostas? me curious now.
6 hours … Are these friends you haven’t seen in a while?
I think they’re Patriot Hostas.
since the BBQ last Saturday, ha! But a couple of my very favorite friends, DW a woman I’ve known through politics initially since 1984, DV an organic farmer orig from my hometown, so goes back many decadences…
… to have 6hr conversations after spending the w/e with them. 🙂 What does DV farm?
I’m starting to do that waking dreaming thing. Are you really here?
And I do recall you were on of the FBC regulars when I first started hanging out here. Nice to have you back with the old gang.
And nice to have the Eat 4 Today sig to remind me to be taking better care of myself… I should really be visiting your site more often but I think subconsciously I’m avoiding it ’cause I think I might actually have to do something… Great that you are having success with it. I promise to be better!!
o, dada, and IVG can attest to my reality… oooohhh, I see my reality be on very t’in ice…
Thanks for remembering. It’s been a while, but I did every Saturday from a year ago through the beginning of February. When things just got to much with the startup of Eat4Today.
I stuck around here, but mostly in the mornings.
I love this place and it’s great being back.
actually he was a band teacher in local high schools before retirement, so ya, teaching is in his blood for sure.
fine now, but missed my exit off I-29 this morning on the way to the cafe, then drove by the ave it was on, finally made it there, recovery commenced at the ingestion of the sweet potato pancakes, cane syrup imported from France, and mediocure coffee, but effective caffeine-wise.
too bad about the coffee…everything else sounds wonderful.
I tempt the fates if I go out in the car w/out having my morning coffee…too risky.
Chinese railing ?
have done some “Art Deco” inspired things, but always in metal.
Kinda like this…
clik to enlarge
now you’ve got my mind just whirling away with pregnant creativity…
Anything spring to mind?
Wow … very creative … a work of art. It must have looked fantastic.
didn’t realize you were a ‘neat freak’…you call that a mess?…broom it off into the under-story and take a deep breath…
…moderation humility and respect…is cool, but it ain’t the part I was referring to…:{)
If I just broomed them off then by the end of the summer the garden would either be a pink cloud, or more likely, stink like a large compost heap d/t rotten and decomposing petals.
I see you left out obedience … maybe that’s your problem … 😛
Guess what I’m eating right now: Mayan Chocolate ice cream.
It says, …inspired by the original chocolate first created by ancent Mayans in 500B.C. … ” Nothing about sacrifices though lol.
It’s a blend of chocolate and cinnamon. Yummy. Made me think of you and that link you posted the other day. 🙂
guess not peeing on the rugs is under appreciated.
under appreciated … if you come from a non-pee on the rugs situation. Maybe ya gotta find the inverse — think how excited they’d be … 🙂
in the recent comment section.
Left me scratching my head, but very curious to click on parent… I mean very curious.
Did I miss you? Or are you another dream?
Hi!!
lovely. I keep looking at them and just realized I hadn’t told you how beautiful they are.
I think I’m starting to have nightmares about them though … I’m drowning in rose petals, and giant pink roses are stabbing me with their thorns … 🙂
What can you do? Mow them down? They’re so beautiful, but is it worth it to have nightmares?
of the back garden. Maybe keep a few, but I’d like to have a more ‘natural’ garden … I’m taking this summer to think about what direction I want to go.
I love natural gardens too. I think whatever you decide will be wonderful.
I’m trying valiantly to stay up past 11:00.
I’m the geezer here and I’m still up.
That may be just the motivation I need to make it one minute past your bedtime.
I’m good for another 10 minutes or so.
I’m faaaaaaading! My bed is calling to me. My 100% Egyptian cotton sheets are calling to me. My memory foam pillow is calling to me.
about pillows?
I will jam my pillow into whatever I am carrying. It’s the homeliest looking thing. Don’t make fun of it.
Oh, for heaven’s sake! Go to bed, SN — we’ll all be here when you get up in the morning. This is the party that never sleeps! You just have to take a break now and then to refill.
And the way you describe it, it sounds irresistable.
I knew if I whined enough someone would send me to bed. Thanks katiebird. And glad to have you back! 🙂
cause I can’t keep my eyes open any longer.
Happy, happy return to the cafe, katiebird.
Good night everybody.
Night.
(read my note about Prairie Giant first though!)
Have you guys seen this yet? It’s been floating around the net … link
The idle mind and all that…:{)
Go and read Brownie’s diary about the illegal RNC campaign to prevent black soldiers from voting in 2004, recently uncovered by the BBC.
It is here. http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2006/6/17/235158/112
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