I am a profoundly lazy man.\u00a0 Disrupting my routine for onerous activities is highly disagreeable to me.\u00a0 But Camera Girl possesses super powers that no one else in the world has.\u00a0 At the utterance of a word, I will move heaven and Earth to keep her happy.\u00a0 So as promised today I crossed beyond the reasonable boundaries of time and space so that she could meet with the breeder of her new puppy.\u00a0 And there was much joy and rejoicing for Camera Girl and for me, the wailing and gnashing of teeth, because I know what lies before me.\u00a0 But as a veteran husband in good standing, I know that a happy wife makes for a happy life.\u00a0 Well, at least if the wife is a good one.<\/p>\n
But I fully realize that this new addition to the household will wreak havoc with my peace of mind.\u00a0 It\u2019s bound to do many things that will irk me.\u00a0 It will chew and destroy many of my possessions.\u00a0 It will inevitably decide that my feet are the chew toys that it will choose to embed its pin sharp baby teeth in.\u00a0 And without a doubt it will pee on anything I leave around within its sphere of control.\u00a0 This will not be easy.\u00a0 But it must be done.\u00a0 So off we went to the breeder\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Now all dog breeders are crazy people.\u00a0 This is indisputable fact.\u00a0 But the level and type of insanity varies greatly within the group.\u00a0 And the breeder we met with today was a very benign case and also a very nice woman to boot.\u00a0 She had kids and grandkids and even sounded like a conservative based on her statements about crime and punishment that came out incidentally while we conversed.\u00a0 I guess whenever I speak to someone some of my preferred topics bleed into the conversation unintentionally.\u00a0 But hearing it did make the conversation more pleasant.<\/p>\n
And when we met the little whelp, it would have taken a heart of stone not to smile at the sight of this floppy eared furball cradled on Camera Girl\u2019s lap while she petted and crooned at the diminutive canine.\u00a0 She smiled and carried on with the breeder about all their opinions about this type of dog and all the qualities real and imaginary that they imbued them with.\u00a0 She was ecstatic.<\/p>\n
Now this is directly linked to our granddaughter\u2019s entry into kindergarten yesterday.\u00a0 Camera Girl has been in a period of mourning over the loss of her time with this little girl.\u00a0 Her maternal instinct was crying out for something to mother.\u00a0 Well, in my book a puppy isn\u2019t a child.\u00a0 But it is a surrogate for one.\u00a0 It is small, helpless and needs mothering so if this creature can transition her through the maturing of her grandchildren from babies to school children, then so be it.\u00a0 I\u2019m on board.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s definitely better than the Belgian Giant rabbit that she was earlier proposing.\u00a0 That would have seen me trundling all winter out in the snow to feed, clean and water said rabbit.\u00a0 And when all is said and done a dog is a hundred times better than a rabbit.\u00a0 And a Belgian one at that!<\/p>\n
So, I spent all of today travelling back and forth to wilds of northern New England on this quest and a return journey will be necessary in the next week or so to pick up the little refugee not to mention the thousands of dollars needed to purchase, medicate, vaccinate and equip it for life at the Compound.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s short money.\u00a0 The good will I\u2019ve already purchased is priceless.\u00a0 Suddenly I\u2019m the conquering hero.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made all her dreams come true. \u00a0Of course, it won\u2019t last forever but for at least the next year she\u2019s got a project that will energize and satisfy her feminine instincts.<\/p>\n
And I won\u2019t have to deal with some stupid Belgian rabbit.\u00a0 Take that Brussels!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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