Wanted: New Personal Assistant
The Husband's sad because his personal assistant, Tex the Hedgehog has died. (Named after the option trading strategy known as The Texas Hedge. A position where you're margined to the gills, balls out long (or short) and if the market doesn't go the way of your bet, you're tits up.)
A couple days ago, Blackie the wayward sheep left us. Her previous, careless, owners came to retrieve her after she was missing for a week.
The Husband and one of the owners chased the flockinto the shed. When the other (white) sheep figured out that the men were only trying to get Blackie, they went after Blackie and butted her out of the shed. Blanche and Beau led the mob.
Read an article the other day that claims, as I have always contended, that sheep can love. I guess they can hate too.
The shepherd's hut is finished today. Leonce needs to make a door for it; but today is the last day for which he gets paid . . . he's going to make the door, tile the floor, and make a circular bench as a gift for me. He's so proud of it, he's trying to talk the Husband into cutting down all the trees that hinder the view of the hut from the road. The Husband likes the privacy so the trees are staying. I did let Leonce cut down a huge lilac bush that was blocking the view from the house. He gleefully went at the large bush with his chain saw.
posted by Libby @ 11:11 AM
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Pictures of the completed hut, resplendent in it's environment, are de rigueur, n'est-ce pas?
Glad to read that the little black wanderer was reclaimed. If they cared enough to look for him, perhaps it will be okay?
The husband's personal assistant is delightful. Sometimes it's fun to have a pal that is for amusement only....keeps us amused.
My two always wanted every captive animal known to man.
Now that they are moving on, I'm left with a gigantic angelfish who ate every other fish in the tank, and whom, i'm told will live for 13-15 years, 5 feeder goldfish in the very small pond that i dug for the kids, who have grown to be as big as koi and will live on average 20 years, and four cats that i never wanted, but my daughter guilted me into getting.
BewaRE ALL THOSE CUTE, CUDDLY animals. they worm their way into your heart and you become a slave to their every whim.
So sorry, please extend my condolences re Ted. that's the painful part - losing them.
It's hard to keep hedgehogs as pets, as their diet consists mainly of beetles, caterpillars and earthworms, with birds' eggs and slug as treats. Stick to sheep.
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