Saturday, September 7, 2013

BLANKIES! An homage to MTV's Cribs by Layla Greyhound

I have hijacked Mommy's blog to give you a tour of my crib just like if we were on MTV and I was famous and you were watching me on TV. Ready? Here we go . . .

Our house is on a busy street which I am not allowed to run in because of cars and trucks. So I run with my Daddy and he is attached to me by his leash. So I don't lose him. Cause he will run all over the place if I let him out of my sight.


After our run I go to my bed in my Lair.


This is what my sign says, and it is true.


 Here's a picture of my bed after Mommy makes it for me.


But I have to fix it before I can sleep on it.


 Sleeping is my favorite thing ever! I think most greyhounds will say this.


Here I am waiting for my food. I sit this good no matter if I'm waiting for breakfast or dinner. I even sit when I get a carrot after I come in from outside.


Here's me doing my second favorite thing . . . eating!


My scorecard shows the number of prey I have dispatched from being alive. I am a good hunter, but Mommy doesn't like to clean up my victims. She also doesn't like it when I roll on them. Mommy grumbles about rocks and hard places while she hides the bodies.


Speaking of hunting, this is a picture of Under the Pinetree in the Front Yard. Sometimes an opossum will sneak along here, but I always hear him. And smell him. Opossums are stinky. I yell, "Begone, opossum! Take your pointy snout and your segmented tail and begone!" Usually this happens at something called four o'clock in the morning. I know this not because I can tell time but because Mommy says, "Layla it's four o'clock in the morning! Stop barking!"


My friend Lucy is wearing her Fall dress. Lucy helps me guard the perimeter of my house, but she's not very good at chasing off opossums, which is why I have to do it. Lucy doesn't say much, but she is a very good listener. She had a smaller friend named Cyllie, but the mailman knocked off Cyllie's head with his bag one day.


Sometimes I sleep in the corner under the dining room window. There is a nice square of sunshine here most of the time. If the sunshine is in a good mood it will rub my tummy while I lay here. Then I say, "Ahhhhhhhh . . . "


If the sunshine doesn't rub my tummy inside, I go outside and lay by the fence. Then the sun shines all over my fur and I say, "Ahhhhhhh." Mommy says getting a suntan like this helps my patches to stay brown all through the winter.


And that's my crib. Thank you for visiting. At the end of the MTV show the host says, "Get Out." But I am very polite, so I say, "I must take a nap now, so bye bye."


P.S. Mommy says I should type something called disclaimer saying once again that Cribs was a show on MTV and I am not stealing it. This is only an homage. Please don't sue us copyright attorneys or keepers of intellectual property. Kisses, L.





Thursday, August 22, 2013

Everyone Complains but Nobody Does Anything

Confession time. I love to talk about the weather. And not just when there's nothing else to talk about. I listen to people complain "I don't understand why it's so hot (or cold) (or rainy) (or dry)." Well I do understand. I listen to forecasters talk about fronts and cells and air flow, and I soak it all in. I love watching storm footage, radar coverage, 3-D Doeppler images with color and jagged lightning graphics and all that cool stuff.

But I don't usually share my font of weather knowledge with others because I've learned something. People don't care. No really, they don't. People would rather complain to other people and then shake their heads and say, "Well, that's Michigan for ya." When I do try to insert my weather knowledge into the conversation, I have their attention for an average of 37 seconds before their eyes glaze over and they start nodding and saying "uh huh."

Kind of like when a writer talks characterization with a non-writer. Or when a baseball fan starts talking about batting averages. Or when a cook discusses the benefits and drawbacks of cooking with cilantro.

What makes your eyes glaze over? Let's start a lively discussion. No glazed eyes allowed.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Weirdness Welcome

So after a long hiatus I'm going to start blogging about the weirdness in my life again. This is part of an exercise through my writing group Deadwood Writers. Blogging is still new to me, and this blog is a work in progress. Feel free to comment and critique. I admit I haven't spent a lot of time following other people's blogs. Once in a while I read my Facebook friend Doranna Durgin's blog http://www.networkedblogs.com/blog/wordplay_347129. She posts interesting stuff about her dogs and their agility work and about her horse,  Duncan. Sometimes her beagle, Connery, will post entries that I read because they are "bawhsome"! And I'm one of those goofy pet people who say "awwww" and tear up at the thought of a beagle sharing his blog thoughts with humans.

I'm keeping this entry short cause I'm going to try to go "public" with it, and I don't want to get bogged down in a long entry today. My life being what it is, something weird is sure to happen soon, and I'll post it right away. Cause sometimes you just need to share the weird in life. Please join me.