I think we got a very good deal on the bathroom.
The Olympics didn't surprise me, the show dogs did.
This from Wendy Anderson of Hare Hill Hounds:
"You might spend $100,000 a year just advertising your dog," Anderson said, referring to the glossy pages touting a dog's accomplishments with an eye toward influencing judges down the road.
Pat Quigley, the owner of Lajosmegyi Kennel in Washington, says that with a professional handler included, the price tag for a year of showing or "campaigning" a dog leading up to Westminster can be more than $200,000.
The handler for the winning dog last year said, "It was like winning the Nobel Prize.".....hey buddy, you didn't develop alternative energy or map human DNA.....YOU HAVE A DOG.
Every year I say the same thing about baseball free agent signings, "I can't believe this guy got (fill in the blank) for (so many years)." Dodger's pitcher Clayton Kershaw signed a seven-year $215 million deal going into 2014.
Kershaw is rumored to be a great guy.
The 25-year-old
Kershaw has won two of the last three National League Cy Young Awards, as well
as a Roberto Clemente Award for his charitable work.
Kershaw
and his wife, Ellen, founded an orphanage in the African nation of Zambia
It seems to me that many of the people who encourage humanitarian spending don't have any money themselves. Thank goodness there are those that do, and spend it quietly, like the Kershaw's. We don't hear much about them.
We do hear about the people that make a lot of noise, like Putin.
Today we celebrate Abe Lincoln's birthday.
Anyone that sat through the entire 2012 film "Lincoln" gets a free bag of microwave popcorn. I actually did and enjoyed the film. A lot of people thought it long and rather boring.
Today is also National Plum Pudding Day.
The first ingredient in the pudding recipe is: 1 cup shredded suet (if you use packaged suet, shake off excess flower before use).
Suet is raw beef or mutton fat, especially the hard fat found
around the loins and kidneys. Suet has a melting point of between 113° and 122° and coagulates (coagulates is another great word; it conjures up all kinds of disgusting images) between 96.6° and 104°.
There is disagreement as to the origin of plum pudding, some say English and others Irish. Either way, it's not American so why it's a "National" food holiday I can't begin to guess. I do know this; there are no plums in plum pudding and I will never eat it.
It seems there is need for an etiquette consultant after all.
I eat my peas with honey,
I've done that all my life.
Although they do taste funny,
It keeps them on my knife.
A Kuwaiti woman filed for divorce one week into her marriage after she discovered that her husband did not like to eat peas with a fork and preferred to use bread.
Accusing him of failing to abide by table manners and proper eating etiquette, she said she was disgusted by the "shocking sight" and could not stay with her husband the rest of her life and wanted a divorce.
In another case, a woman told her lawyer that she wanted to divorce her husband for insisting on squeezing the toothpaste tube in the middle and not the end. "We are always arguing," she reportedly said. "I keep telling him he should squeeze in the end of the tube, but he stubbornly refuses and keeps squeezing it in the middle. He is so obstinate."
One woman filed papers for divorce because her husband "wore a bad hairpiece, had bad breath and a small penis." The husband said, "I don't care. She has more facial hair than I do. I hope she is happy."
According to Kuwaiti lawyers, the non-acceptance of the other is the major reason for divorce in the country.
While I'm on the subject of unhappy relationships:
Bopp was arrested and charged with aggravated battery after Cedric Henry called 911 to report that he had been stabbed in the stomach. Bopp's child witnessed her stabbing Henry, according to the police report.
Henry said that he refused to take Bopp to the store because he didn’t want to drive while he was intoxicated.
The groom-to-be’s grandmother told police that Bopp and Henry live together and were supposed to be getting married next week. It’s unclear if that will still be happening.
An Australian teen apparently didn’t have time to invest in a ski mask before allegedly trying to rob a gas station, so he went with the next best thing -- a flowerpot.
Steven Frank Steele is accused of using a chainsaw to rob a 7-Eleven service station while wearing a flowerpot on his head to conceal his identity.
Steele allegedly entered the establishment while he was drunk and holding a running chainsaw.
One of the clerks said Steele used a marker to draw eyes on the flower pot. "The pot was over his head but he couldn't see very well. He kept walking into the display racks."
The store’s two attendants fled into a back room and police say Steele used the chainsaw to damage a window. The teen then exposed his buttocks to the employees and left the store after taking a bottle of soda.
A police officer responding to the scene spotted Steele walking down the street still wearing the flower pot and he was placed under arrest. The chainsaw was found in a bush near the service station.
The teen was charged with one count of armed robbery, two counts of willful damage, one count of going armed to cause fear, one count of public nuisance, one count of possessing suspected stolen property and three counts of stupidity.
The Bathroom Renovation: Work Day 12
Paint, door hardware, exhaust fan and air register.
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