My dad's 'rap song'

Yup, this is my dads' new rap song. It's, umm, interesting.

1-800 M-PUMPED

For years, I've pounded mail
Just like Cliff Claven
Through sleet & hail
And marriage cave-in
At home, with pen in hand, I do my ravin'
On recycled envelopes I'm savin'. DOH!

(Since I saw God while I was shavin',
Been postin' redemption songs to soul suckahs misbehavin'.)

I don't plan to be no fossil fool a slavin'
It's my cool retirement which I'm cravin',
I've logged my time a skiddin'
Down this road to hell we're pavin'.
It's from safe within my postage stamp
That I'll be wavin'.

Maybe one day yet before I'm in my grave,
I'll get real brave
And scrimp and leave my haven
Buy jet fuel
And see the world
My pimped out smart car's savin'. DOH!

Errol Nimbly

Ahh, good news

OK, I have some good news. (for me, at least). A while ago, I put in an application form for working at the library. The library finally called me and said that they wanted to interview me next Wednesday!!! This is awesome. I'm excited.

I'll post more after the interview.

The story of the collar in the compost

"One day, Finnegans' people lost his collar. It had seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet. They looked and looked, but they could not find it anywhere. They didn't want to buy another collar and name tag for Finn, but it looked like they needed to. Then, a few days later, Finnegan's human dad found it............... IN THE COMPOST!"

I'm not kidding; this really happened. We have no idea how it got into the compost of all places, but it did. I'm glad that we don't have to buy another name tag. (the one we got cost $10).

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err.... picture. This is a river near where I live.

where's the toilet paper?????

OK, this was hilarious!!! I was in the bathroom washing my hands. I heard Finnegan go behind me, and I didn't think much of it, until I saw a streak of white out of the corner of my eye. I looked, and Finn had taken hold of the end of the toilet paper and was draging it out of the bathroom! Crazy dog!

That dog is SMART... in some things

I am amazed at how smart Finn can be! And also how persistent, too. For example, he's getting 'sit', 'stand', and 'watch me' down very well... 'come' is pretty good too... but there are two things he's not getting, or choosing not to get:
1. Poppy does not want to play with him, and
2. Jumping on counters is not allowed! (no, he doesn't go ON the counters, just puts his paws up).
He will get them eventually. I hope.

Puppy Kindergarten is going well. We took him to his first class last Wednesday, and he did very well, considering all the distractions. He's the smallest in the class, which is weird, because his breed in not small! And as I said, he's picking up the lessens very fast. Finnegan's also getting better at not pulling on-leash, which is good.

Got to take the dogs for a walk. By-by!

Finn update

Finn is still doing well, and he's still a crazy mouth-on-four-legs. He's getting way better at walking on our road: at first, he was scared of all the noises of cars driving by, lawn mowers, dogs barking... but he's doing better now. He's still not getting that if the leash is tight, I'm stopping, and I'll only move again if the leash is loose. Well, sometimes he gets it, but other times he doesn't.

He really wants to play with our older dog Poppy, but Poppy doesn't want to. Poppy is having a hard time with it, but he's doing pretty well.

We are going to take Finn to puppy kindergarten on Wednesday. I wonder how he'll like that....

puppy pics

I've finally got some pictures of Finnegan! *grins*

This is "The Finn"

Here's Finnegan and Poppy... sitting together, for once!

I'll write more later. Finn is keeping me busy right now. :)