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August 4, 2007
Hospital Or Hotel?
Before visiting with mom at the hospital, we visited with some friends and got a tour of their new condo over in the Hamburg area. I was very impressed with it, even though they have certain rules they must follow outdoors. They told us they are not allowed to fence in their yard, they are not allowed to have any toys or swing sets outside, they cannot have company vehicles parked outdoors, and they must clean up their dog’s droppings.
However, seeing that the yard is mowed for them, you can better understand those rules pertaining to swing sets, toys, fencing, and dog poo. Personally, I like the no swing set rule now that my own kids are older. I want to be in a neighborhood where there are little to no children running around. That may sound crotchety, but so be it. I don’t have any desire to live with a lot of little hellions going barefoot and half naked up and down the street. I did that for years, wondering where in the world these kids’ parents could be until the family of one set of these children, containing six kids, moved to a bigger house and the other family, containing five kids, was evicted and moved away.
Fortunately, the people who live around us now are either too old to have children, don’t have any as of yet, take care of the kids they do have, or their kids are the same age as Ashley and stay indoors. Kevin and I both like to take digs at the skateboard kids, but like I told him; they’re getting older every day and soon, they’ll be out of here. Oh, we’re such nice people!
I’m getting way off track now. I wanted to tell you about Otis.
This is Otis:
He is the newest family member of our friends and he is just eleven months old. He loves to bark at everything and everyone and is a total hoot. His tongue is as long as his tail and is perpetually hanging out the side of his mouth.
His new parents believe he was abused because they have never met a pug that didn’t take a natural liking to people. He was living with two young boys which could explain a lot. Otis is very cautious and it took him quite a while to warm up to us.
I think he liked Kevin the best:
Yes, I’m jealous, but maybe I’ll turn him to my side on our next visit.
Mom was feeling good. She and my aunt had eaten delivery from Columbia Steak House the previous night and she had just finished some PizzaHut before we arrived this afternoon. She doesn’t like the hospital food at all.
When we were at the corner of Vine and Main waiting for the light to change, we observed the bank sign with the temperature reading:
91 degrees – If Bing Crosby were still alive, he’d be singing Baby, It’s Hot Outside!
Posted by tami at August 4, 2007 10:54 PM
Comments
Would you believe I let mom talk me into going to the 127 sales today! The bank in Lawrenceburg said 100 when were stopped to eat around 12:30....I don't know how we are going to make it this next week with it in the 90's everyday....guess we've just been lucky this summer up till now!
Glad your mom has her appetite back...I never liked hospital food either! ^_^
Posted by: deanna77 at August 4, 2007 11:33 PM
Sounds like your temps are about like ours - according to Weather.com, we topped out at 90 today. I've still not caved and put the AC on, though! The hottest part of the day I sat in the shade of the gazebo on our patio and drank a lot of cold water...And had an oscillating fan on me. ;)
Charles is cute -- silly looking in a good doggie way.
Glad mom's getting some tasty food instead of that hospital junk. Howie's was really nasty at Johns Hopkins. Great care, bad food. Seems to go hand in hand, doesn't it?
Posted by: gw at August 5, 2007 12:14 AM
P.S. We're kinda curmudgeonly when it comes to neighborhood kids, too! We never wanted to have children, and now we hope people who buy the homes up for sale around us don't have little kids...And, no offense, teens. Give us empty nesters!
Posted by: gw at August 5, 2007 12:16 AM
We're hitting 79 degrees today but as we've had mostly rain this summer this feels quite warm :)
Posted by: Elle at August 5, 2007 10:05 AM
Otis is a cutie pie! How could anyone harm that sweet face? That's another reason we don't like kids ... they tend to hurt animals. Whether it is intentional or accidental, I don't know, but young kids should not have animals. We feel the same way about kids as you do, but we have never had and do not ever plan to have any... We're crotchety too! LOL...
Posted by: Tammy at August 6, 2007 9:30 AM
I have to say that I don't agree with the lady's statement above. I have four children, two of them very small, and we've had all manner of pets and none of my children have ever been mean to or hurt any of our pets. If parents teach their children how to treat animals, I don't see any reason why small children can't be around pets. It's not always children who are abusive to children either. There are some people that live across the street from us, I'd say they are probably in their twenties who have a dog. They scream at him and cuss at him all the time, and I'm pretty sure that he is being physically abused. He managed to get out of their backyard one day and came over to my house when I was out in the front yard and as I went to pet him, he jerked back like he was afraid I'd hit him. He has shown other signs of abuse too. Adults can be just as cruel to animals as children and it's not fair to generalize.
Posted by: Stacey at August 6, 2007 11:27 AM
Oops, I meant to say that it't not always children who are abusive to animals, not children.
Posted by: Stacey at August 6, 2007 11:28 AM