The Serious Issue of Spring 2009

Spring is here! 

Woo Pee!

I love to see more sunshine days in spring.  Goodbye the crabby winter I hope you don’t come back soon, or you may forget to come back forever. 

 

My sister, Thong Pond, and I have been reopened our service for 2009 on the first day of spring, March 20th.   However, hunting mice is only our part time service because we still want to keep our permanent full time job, keeping warmth on the couch, and we can’t effort to lose this job.

 

That why we have to hold two jobs now.   Boss said if we consider hunting mice is only our part time, she will consider the part time meal for us soon.   We hate that message!  Therefore, both of us have to be more active in front of boss in order to keep our full time meals.  We can’t let boss cut off our benefit. 

 

Boss tries to make that couch unavailable for us as much as she can.  Now both of us have to find the new way to continue our full time nap.  My sister can’t find the place that she likes more than the couch, so she always sit next to the couch as if she were watching for mice, but most of time her eyes close.  I assume she starts to learn how to make the peace in her mind by practices the meditation.   Her eyes close, her body relaxes, then she takes the deep breath in, and slowly take out, and about fifteen minutes her head will slowly bow to the coffee table before her body fully down to the floor for her long peaceful nap.        

 

I have a better idea than my sister; by using the grocery bag that boss left it in the kitchen.   I moved the bag to the living room, and kept it in my private corner.  I got an idea from the TV. that I like to watch, so I used that brown bag for my sleeping bag.   It was warm and comfortable enough for my full time job, sleeping, but it was kind of noisy when I moved my body inside.   

 Joa Ying, the Beagle, liked to play my bag while I was inside that bag, and once we had big argument  because she try to put her miniature whale body inside that bag, and she found out that bag didn’t fit her.  I screamed out loud for help, and gave her the biggest punch on her face and I tried to get out. 

 

Finally the bag  was tore a part, then boss came to stop our fight.   Now I have to loose my sleeping bag forever.   I wonder when that miniature whale Beagle will pay me back for the damage she had made.  

 This is very serious issue of spring 2009 that I ever had.   😦

GOOD FRIENDS

 

I have attention to post about this beautiful music “GOOD FRIEND” on my Beagle Blog since I received message from Pete Dowan, the song writer.  

 

However, I had problem on download his music because I don’t have plug in.    I tried by posted on my Yahoo Geocities; then linked to my blog, but it didn’t work the way I want to.  Because when I turned on the music, I saw  all of my music files show on the Media Player.  So, I had to hold Dowan’s music file in my music folder for a while.     Then I received message from Pete again about how to link his music to my blog.   Now I end up as you see by posting  the link for you to click, and listen to Dowan’s music at:

“Good Friends”

 

Some part of message, Pete Dowan introduced himself :
 “ I am a medically disabled songwriter from St Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and have written many songs about many different subjects and in several different styles.”

So, if anyone interests  to listen more  Dowan’s music, and want to support his music projects  please welcome to visit him  at:

1.  Pete Dowan

2. iTunes

 3.  Or stop by at Pete Dowan’s music place 

 

 

I had learned from  Dowan that he wrote this song for his four legs  friend, “Scuttle” who is no longer on earth.  That is the sad part, but in his song  the forever friendship is still alive in his heart.   I’m sure Dowan put  a lot of time worked  on his music.  

 

 In any kind of art work, artists always mix their hearts, feelings, and loves into their projects which can not limit by the dateline like the other jobs.   Believe me that is not easy life as we push button on remote control , then the work  done within a second  as you see on TV.

 

It seems to me most of artists have the beginning with the difficult finances before their success, but the fire of inspiration and creation never burn out from their hearts.  They happy in what they have, and they love what they do.   In the artists’ world always shining with the beautiful creative ideas, which are ready to put into their work to decorate the real world.

Thank you very much Pete Dowan for sharing this music to my Beagle Blog.

 

(Lyrics & Music      ©By Pete Dowan       (SOCAN)

CHORUS:
GOOD FRIEND, EVERYBODY NEEDS A
GOOD FRIEND, LIFE IS FULL OF WEEDS
WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND.

3rd VERSE:
             Time is all I have to spend on you.
             You appreciate it when I do.
             Make me feel I’m extra special too.
             A good friend like you.

CHORUS:
GOOD FRIEND, EVERYBODY NEEDS A
GOOD FRIEND, LIFE IS FULL OF WEEDS
WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND.

BRIDGE:
     So hard to find.    With you around I can just take my time.
    You’ll be my friend until the end.      But I need the two-leggèd kind.

4th VERSE:
             How I wish I had a friend like you
             Something less would really never do
             They have got a lot to live up to
             A good friend like you.

CHORUS:
GOOD FRIEND, EVERYBODY NEEDS A
GOOD FRIEND, LIFE IS FULL OF WEEDS
WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND.. WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND

 

 

 

 

The Two Sisters’ Important Jobs

Our important two jobs (on the boring cold days) for my sister and I are sleeping on the warm couch, and checking on our food bowls whenever we wake up.  

 

 Boss likes to repeat to us that we have to do more jobs than that.  Boss doesn’t understand how hard of our two jobs that we already have.  You see, before we close eyes on that couch, it is too cold for two of us to sleep right away.  We have to sit for a while until the couch start to warm, that mean we already lose our bodies’ energy to do that.  Then during sleeping time, if one of us needs to go toilet, we need to have either one to stand by to keep the couch warm.  Because if not, we have to start all over the first step again.  We don’t want to waste time like that.

 

Another job is to check on our bowls as often as we can.  This job needs to be done too.  Because if we delay, Joa Ying, the Beagle, will takes this opportunity to clean our bowls right away.  We used to give our serious warning many times that she is absolutely has no right to do that.  However,  Joa Ying has short memory on our message, but she has  created herself  the permanent memory for cleaning  our bowl.  That is very frustrating situation for us.  The cold war between Joa Ying and two of us will never be end as long as that Beagle can’t improve her short memory problem.   Therefore it is our duty to keep eyes on our property to be safe from Joa Ying is the most important too.   

 

We don’t understand why boss want us to go look for mice all the time whenever she see both of us on the couch.  We know that is our duty, but we just want to give all mice a winter break since we has been work on them all year long.   Both of us need to have conference on this matter before we will reopen our service.  Our schedule work needs to follow many procedures as the government job too. 

 

However, boss doesn’t give up on us yet.  She starts to pull both of us from the couch, and tells us go do something besides sleeping.   My sister, Thong pond, likes to spring up to the top of the big clock, and she acts like she busy on looking for mice.   When boss walks away Thong Pond will sneak back to the couch again to continue her long nap.   For me?  I act like I’m very busy finding mice in the kitchen for a while, then I go sit in the living room. 

My favorite activity in the living room is watching animal movies.

Boss knows I like to watch the Wolves DVDs, so she always turns it on for me when she thinks I had finished  my job.  So this is my hobby, watching TV, as you people like to watch talk shows, or sport games.     

Tight and more tighter

 

 The economic belt has been tight  many people’ waists nowadays, include me too.  I try to live in the recycle world, reuse every thing as much as I can, but only the toilet paper that I promise myself I will never reuse it.  I swear!

How can the whole world will survive in the tight economic?  That is the biggest concerning for all of us.  I try to focus on the positive side more than the negative, and be happy.  If the happy heart can survive longer, why should I want to live shorter by have unhappy heart all the time?   So, I answer to myself, “Just hang in there until the good economic days come back”.  Keep smile, although the upper lip is now very dry and sticks on the front teeth, must keep on with that smiling. 

 

One thing I have learned that the suffering is the best teacher and the best trainer for human to be a good fighter, and to survive longer too.  If we look in the river, all fishes swim against the strong currents, only dead fishes float with no direction, and finally sink to the bottom of the river. 
For me, living in the cheap way and dealing with the bad economic is not much scary. I have a lot of fun, and learn a lot of good things in “How to be cheap”.

 

When I go shopping, I like to spend time look around to compare the price, the quality of items that I want to buy.  My motto has been change from “Get the best quality in the reasonable price” to be “Get the best quality and the cheapest price.”  So, I’m not shy to stand next to the cleaning stuffs’ shelf  to  compare each dish detergent bottle to find out which one has more drops by the level line close to the cap ( If it is possible I would like to count all molecules in each bottle too).  However, many items that I can’t open to compare the quality inside like tuna can, so I have to pick the can by the price, or on sale.  It would be extra work for the store, if I open tuna can just to find out which can has the biggest chucks in there before I decide to buy it. 

 
I hear the news talked about some airlines start the ideas to charge passengers the fee for using their toilets on the airplanes, so I’m thinking I should bring a bed pan to fly with me next time.  I try to be tight on my expense, now some airlines even tight themselves more than I do.  Don’t you see that?

 

 

 

My Beloved Blanket

                 

                   Finally I lost my beloved blanket forever.  That was very sad.   The blanket had been with me for long time.  It used to be boss’s old towel, and she gave it to me for my bed’s floor.  I used it for all purposes, like slept on it, practice my chewing when I was a puppy, and hid my precious “things” under it.  It worked well because the two sisters and Som Tum never know what were under there. 

 

                     Boss told me she had to throw away because it was too old to keep, and also the level of stink was very high.  She said she will replace the new one for me.   No! I don’t agree with her, and the new blanket is not my choice neither.  I only want my old one back!

 

               My life have been empty since I lost my beloved blanket.  Days and nights pass by with the loneliness, and I have nothing to hide my “collection things ” any more.  I don’t want anybody see my important “things”, like two pieces of pork  bones, one broken piece of coconut shell, one broken plastic toy, and two old hot dogs that I snatched from Som Tum’s bowl during her long nap.  From now on I have no secret place to hide my “things” any more.  Oh! Poor Joa Ying!   

 

              I had been in depression for a while.  I wanted to protest boss by eat nothing, but my nose couldn’t resist the smell of biscuit dog bone, and two new hot dogs that boss gave to me for take care my depression.  First I turned away from these things, to prove to boss that nothing in this world has more meaning than my old blanket.  However, my nose told me if I don’t care hot dogs, and dog bones now, it will be too late.  I couldn’t help myself when my heart said “No!”, but my mouth said “Yes!”, and my mouth worked faster than my heart.  Therefore, I had to break myself the commitment again. 

 

               When those hot dogs disappear inside my mouth, my mood feel much better, my depression soon fade away.  That was the magic of two hot dogs.   Should I forget about that blanket, and start my new life again?