Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. I recently had the opportunity to attend the wedding of sister’s son, which was held on the Eastern Kentucky University campus where they first met. It was a bit unusual for several reasons. It was held outside on one of the hottest days in July. It was 95 in the shade, and we had to sit in the sun throughout the ceremony. Second, the theme was more on the comic/con side, where the best man was dressed as Hans Solo and the maid of honor was Princess Leia. Most…
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Hello and welcome back to my world of the Dogpound that almost came to an abrupt end a few days ago. I have driven for many years and consider myself a pretty safe and defensive driver. Thank the good Lord, I have not been in any really serious accidents. I have had a few fender benders and one good bang-up, but none that would have been considered life-threatening. Now there have been several potentially “bad” situations that could have had serious consequences, but they never materialized. None where I thought “this is it,” this is the end of the road.…
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. Went to a movie for the first time for quite a while and saw the new Disney “The Lion King.” This is a remake of the first one but there is no comparison. The first was drawn as a cartoon, this one is made as if the animals were very real. The animation was seamless, and the scenery was rich in dimension and detail. You could call this a kid’s movie but there were far more adults than kids at this presentation. One other plus, we went to a…
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. No, it is not Easter. I have a wedding to attend. My sister’s son is getting married in Kentucky, and I figured it would be nice to lose a few pounds before the big event. Unfortunately, my fat is very determined, which means it is easy for me to gain weight but it takes forever to lose it. I despise those folks who say “Oh my! In 30 days we are going to the beach and I need to lose 10 pounds.” Sure enough, they drop it like a…
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. It’s hard to believe that we are almost through the month of July. I have to admit that I was never a big soccer fan. Where I grew up, we had the basic sports: baseball, football, basketball and track. Soccer was something for the big city folks to do. However, I watched the women’s World Cup lately. I have gained respect for soccer. One observation though, there are a lot of “headers,” and some have real heat behind them (not counting the occasional head-on-head collisions), and yet there does…
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. As I mentioned previously, Big Dog (my neighbor’s dog) and I were going to have a conversation about some unnecessary behavior around my house. We had that talk, but it appears it did not stick. Before I proceed, I need to issue an apology to Big Dog. She is not a he, my bad! Some people are very touchy about those things! Anyway, Big Dog came over for a visit, and after our ritual of dog biscuits and belly rubs, I went over to the garage to get some…
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. I hope you had a nice long and safe Fourth of July weekend. We only get one day off, but I took Friday as a vacation day, since the following day is usually dead anyway. I guess the presidential election has finally started in earnest. Well, I guess it never really ended, but we now have all the players on the playing field. We have two dozen Democratic candidates on one side and the incumbent president on the other. What I can find on Google: only five sitting presidents…
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful of the Dogpound where we are celebrating the red, white and blue. We have reached the halfway point of the year, and we have everything to celebrate. I know the news is full of this complaint and that finger pointing, but we have to put that all in perspective. We are blessed to live in the greatest country in the world, and 90 percent of the world’s population would give their eye teeth to have half of what we enjoy every day. So turn off the news, go out and celebrate our Independence…
Hello and welcome to the thrilling world of the Dogpound. I lost my Internet connection recently. It was a factor in my thrilling week. The nice folks on the other side of the phone promised me that a tech would be at my house sometime between 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. They are supposed to call when they finish up their last job, so you have time to make sure you are home to let them into the house. It was par for the course: they did not call me, and the only way I even knew they were at the…
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. For some time now, I have wanted to start a garden. Where I used to live until recently, I had deer walking through my yard almost daily, and I figured a garden had little chance of surviving. So the best I could do was to get some big containers, plant some tomatoes in them, and keep them close to the garage in the hope that the deer would not get too adventurous. Now I have a garden space, and it looks like Fort Knox. Let me back up a…