Where Dogs "Rule" the Roost

L-->R: Eric Stephanie, Huge dog, Sausage dog, Margaret. I think I got that right...Huge dog ate the other two girls before we got a chance to meet them.

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I've always thought that out of every bad event comes some good. When my mom died, we re-connected with a number of folks from long ago...old neighbors, grammer school friends, and high school friends.

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One of the real surprises was my old high school swim buddy Eric and his wife Margaret (sister of my inseparable twin of different mothers, Bob). They had never dated in high school, but met sometime later at a rally for Ralph Nader...or maybe that was for Ralph Cramden...one of those.

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They hit it off immediately, agreed that they would both be virgins until 2 years after they were married (Stephanie, take note of this!), and promptly eloped to Las Vegas. Margaret was so shocked by what she saw there, that it turned her hair blonde!

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Since then they've had 3 lovely kids, and 2 homely pooches. The kids are all roughly the same size, but the dogs are hysterically different...a St Bernard (named after the catholic saint who grew so big he burst), and a dachsund, the consumate sausage dog. This one is a blind sausage however, so it walks around the house, barking fiercely, and running head-on into chair legs. Quite humorous to watch. They're hoping to adopt a 3 legged ferret and a dead racoon soon.

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Eric's built a nice career running a local golf course. He was always into food, leisure, and rich white people. Margaret is a teacher, working primarily with blind dogs...teaching them to use canes and read dog-braille and such. Stephanie is approaching college soon, and the dogs couldn't stop talking about finally having the house to themselves. She has her own horse...what else would you own living in a subdivision in suburbia? Noteably, it's smaller than the St Bernard.

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Anyhow, always good to catch up with old friends, see how their life has evolved over the years, and reminisce about the good times. And Eric sure learned to cook a mean corned beef...

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"Catch-up Stroke" Lumpy out