Month: January 2006

Kind of a Drag

1/16: I came home to a sizeable mound of sand at the head of my driveway. I’m guessing it was left there by the stucco guys. Lucky I don’t have to get my car out tonight, I thought, knowing that the pile will be gone by tomorrow. 1/17: I was wrong. Not even a pint is missing, nor a stucco guy visible. Lucky I have two cars, I thought. Unfortunately I can’t even park the […]

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Pup 4: Toots

January 19, 2006 When I woke up today I never expected I’d have a dog three hours later, but c’est la vie (or sessed la veee according to a certain person who will remain unidentified). En route to lunch I dropped by the animal rescue place, and before I could stop my mouth it volunteered me to foster a pup. I scanned the crates looking for possibilities in the big-dog range. “What about that one?” […]

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Pup 3: Butch

January 2006 I stopped by the adoption store one day last week just to say hi, and I left with Butch. A volunteer had asked me to hang on to him for a minute while she took care of another task, and then another volunteer started begging me to foster him for the night. Butch was skinny and scared and decorated with pink spots whose source turned out to be a puncture wound in his […]

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