Life with the Two Crazy Dogs

The humidity went away and of course the dewpoint dropped to the 50’s this evening.  I went for a walk with Ranger and Cooper.  There was a nice breeze, the sun was still quite hot to the skin.  Ranger as usual was holding up the walk but I still need to walk him, if not he wouldn’t do much business in the backyard of our house.

We walked out to the main road and farther down the sidewalk I saw this black dude walking towards our direction.  Ranger had to take a big business so I waited and this dude continued towards my direction.  However, when he saw me and the two boys walking towards him, he walked outside the sidewalk on to the shoulder of the road.  When we walked passed him he said:

He: You have big dogs.
Me: Yes, they are big (smiling and continued walking. He speaks with a heavy accent from Africa)
He: Yeah, they are big (looks like he was not comfortable with the boys)
He: Are they male? (By then I was a good 20 feet away from him)
Me: I’m sorry? Are they males you mean? Yes, they are males.
He: Are you married? (Pointing to his left hand and the ring finger)
Me: (WTF) Yeah, I am married. (And I pulled Ranger to walk away as fast as he could)

I kept turning back to see if that black dude was following me, but he didn’t.   I have never had a stranger while on a walk asked me this question.  When I got home, I pretended nothing happened on my walk, I didn’t tell DB.  If I had told him, he will tell me “No-More-Walks-By-Yourself”.  It’s better to keep things to myself sometimes.

Here is some thing hilarious for a boring day.  I received this morning and I have to say it is one of the best I have ever received.  Read the below out loud:

I am we Todd it
I am sofa king we Todd it

Read it out loud and fast, really fast.

Did y’all get it?

She’s still a baby but she knows what peace is.

And I’m happy being held

This little munchkin is growing fast.  She is 13 pounds and getting cuter and vocal too.  How time flys, she will be two months old Aug 6.  Don’t you want to pinch those cheeks??

The boss is not in this week.  She has gone to Anaheim for a conference and just last month she was in Orlando for a family gathering.  I told DB it would be nice to look up some Orlando vacations when Ally is older.  He gave me the look like “are you kidding me”.  I know how much he detest going to these places.  I for sure do not mind going to Disneyland, Disneyworld, all these touristy places.  I have never been there and definitely I want to experience it at least once.  The same thing with visiting the big cities in the states - NYC, DC, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, and the list goes on.  Sigh, hopefully I win the lottery with a million bucks I can go on visit these places/cities on my own.

I was chatting with Simmie online last week and our conversation popped out a question of what will I do if some thing happens to DB.  Honestly, I don’t know.  Most probably I will continue to stay in here.  DB told me he has enough term life insurance for me to live and pay all the debts, funeral and whatever that’s left to be paid.  I know I will sell the house and move to a smaller townhome with the boys or who knows, I might move out of the state.   I will cross that bridge when it comes knocking on my door. 

This week’s PhotoHunt theme is Hanging.  Here is a picture of what’s left of the basketball net hanging by itself on the hoop.  This in-ground steel basketball pole, hoop, backboard, and net are as old as the house.  It was installed when the first owners moved-in in 1966.  The net felled apart last year, must be from the weather and wear and tear through the 40+ years.

Yeeehah, the weekend is here.  I really like Friday and especially on payday Fridays.  Payday Fridays means no boss, hah, no boss to hawk over me.  I do take advantage when the boss is not around.  The big boss is in but he never bothers me. 

Anyhoo, today I went for my First Aid and CPR class.  This class was given free to all employees who wish to learn about First Aid and CPR.  Before I went for this class, I had to take an online class which was 4 hours on the said subject.  After going through the lessons, every participant needs to pass the pre-assessment test at least 80% or higher.  It gives the participants two chances to take the test.  If you didn’t get at least 80% on the first go, you will have the last chance.  I had to take it twice.  I went through my lessons last week and didn’t take the assessment test on Wednesday.  Of course fail lah!!  What I read, heard, saw all forgotten.  Had to go over the lessons again and took the test.  Passed.

The actual CPR class was good.  We used dummies and practice mouth to mouth with a mouth barrier and chest compressions.  The instructor also taught us what needs to be done if there is an actual situation, how to give CPR to an unresponsive and responsive victim, and a choking victim.  We learned the Heimlich maneuverto expel the object from the choking victim.  And of course, some ladies asked what should be done if it was a little kid, a baby.  The maneuvers are certainly differently.  I really hope I don’t have to use it.  It’s a good to know kinda thing and the same goes with CPR. Giving chest compressions (30 compressions for every 2 breaths) is not easy.  Boy, they are tiring.

When I got home, I was late first off, I started playing with the camera again since tomorrow is Photohunt day.  The pictures below were taken with my Canon Powershot using the appeture and shutter speed mode.  I am still learning how to take pictures with the two features.  It seems to take better pictures than in Auto mode.  What you say??  Have a great weekend folks!

~Lilies growing in a container from Simmie~

~Flowers from a hanging basket. Looks like a rose~

~My strawberry plant, looks like I have to wait for another year for it to bear fruits~

~Ranger, the old wise dog~

~Chase, munching on some wood~

~The sorta netless basketball hoop~

~Cooper, sitting really still for me. Good boy~

 

It’s Aloha Friday again.  I was going through my office cabinet this afternoon, the cabinet where it was once shared by other departments in our HR area.  I know, it seems like Fridays are the days I will putz and waste my time doing things that are no brainer.  I found bags of promotional products from the marketing division of  our company.  I have no idea how they came into existance in my cabinet.  Ms E thinks when the marketing folks left the area a couple of years ago, they dumped their junk into this cabinet as if it was a dumpster.  I didn’t even bothered to ask it belongs to who and the dates on the items were around three years old.  Why take the trouble to track the owners.  It’s better to spend my extra time chatting on Yahoo.