Never Know What the Day Will Bring

It was ten minutes before shift change and today is Wednesday but for me it is my work Friday. I received a report of loose bull in a residential area. Sure enough I found the bull near a house. I got out of the truck and as luck would have it, the bull charged me. I did not know I could react as fast as I did to jump in my truck and slam the door. The bull stopped about a foot from the window, looked at me, turned and started running up the street. I followed the bull in my truck to this ranch house and stayed in my truck this time. After about twenty minutes 7 ranch hands came to the location and we round up the bull. Oh the joys of the job sometimes. Time to go home and change my pants.

Way to Go Commissioner Roger Goodell

Seriously Vick is coming back to the NFL?

I keep hearing he did his time and this is America. True, but lets say I go to bar tonight, get arrested for drinking and fighting. If I am convicted I will be released from my job. I will never be allowed to come back to my job. I will never be able to work in the Animal Welfare Field.

As you can imagine I do not do this job for the money. It is a living, but not even close to what Vick will make on a Sunday.

Girl Friday well Sunday

Paladin's post of Betty Brosmer inspired me to do a Girl Friday/Sunday. The first person to come to mind is Debra Paget. Even the King fell for her. Looking at the last of the pictures it is amazing how much she looks like Priscilla Presley.

Zelda and Sophie

Just had to post this picture.

This is my niece Zelda and my brother playing with my dog Sophie.

Chasing Livestock

Still arguing with the City I work with on how to deal with loose livestock. Battle seems to have started in 1913. Not all , but 2 of the people I work with would make national news by doing something like this. On man killed another wounded. Crazy stuff.

Taken from Shorpy.

MAN IS SHOT DEAD IN CHASE FOR STEER
Frenzied Animal Tears Down Fifth Avenue,

Police Shooting From Taxicabs.
SEVEN OTHERS SCATTER
Wild Bullet Slays a Watchman -- Waiter Is Wounded --

All the Beeves Caught or Killed.
The steer which caused the excitement in Fifth Avenue was one of eight which escaped from the yards of the New York Stock Company at Sixtieth Street and the North River. In the pursuit another man was wounded, a policeman was trampled on, and a delivery wagon was wrecked. The excitement began about 4 o'clock yesterday morning and did not end until five hours later, when the last steer was shot to death in Central Park. The steer which alarmed Fifth Avenue was one of the wildest of the lot, and it was a police bullet fired at it which went wild and killed George Beattie, night watchman of the building under construction at 24 East 55th Street. ... The steer, bleeding from wounds, turned into Fifty-Fifth Street, followed by a string of revolver-popping automobiles. ... According to stockyard authorities, about 200 short-horn Oregon steers were unloaded yesterday morning, consigned to various butchers in the city ...

New Trend for Motorcycle Riders

I came across this on a great webpage called geekologie.com. and had to share it.
How fun is it going to be the first time you see someone on the highway wearing this?

http://www.universaldesigns.ca/UDR/ID/IDjacket.html

The Hurt Locker-Best movie of the Year

The Hurt Locker is the best movie I have seen in awhile. If you liked Saving Private Ryan and/or Band of Brothers you will like this movie.

http://thehurtlocker-movie.com/

Fly your flag

This is crazy. I can't help but get mad. I see this story and remember the stories my grandfather use to tell me about WWII. Hopefuly more people will start flying a flag in support of what this man is going through in Dallas and for our men and women in the service. He had a Flag for the Fourth and it was burned then got a new one and now that one was burned.

Short news story below:

Just as many North Texans are flying U.S. flags in anticipation of the Fourth of July, vandals are torching them in a far North Dallas neighborhood.

A far North Dallas man says all that remains of his flags is a pile of charred fabric.
A pile of charred fabric is all that remains of the two flags that once flew outside ED Jordanshouse in a quaint cul-de-sac off Spring Valley and Prestonroads.
"I think this border might have been the American flag," Jordan said as he sifted through the scorched remains.
On Friday, he hung a flag honoring his country and a flag honoring the Marine Corps he once served in. But he came home Monday to find a bare flagpole and singed shrubs, he said.
"It takes a pretty low-minded person to do something like that," Jordan said.
Vandals also burned the flag of a neighbor.Dallas police are investigating both cases as arson.
Jordan, who has flown flags for 12 years, said he has never had a problem until now. He said he wasn't sure if the burnings were a prank or someone trying to make a political statement.
"I really would have given them the flags if that’s what they wanted, but I don’t think that’s what they wanted," he said. "They wanted to destroy."
But Jordan said the vandals have not destroyed his patriotic spirit.
"I’m not angry," he said. "I’m going to get other flags and put them out there again."

Public Enemies Blah

This weekend I watched Public Enemies. I was highly disappointed with the movie. I walked in expecting at least a John Dillinger version of The Untouchables. What I watched was a Michael Mann’s version of a gangster Titanic. In addition, what happened to the Lady in red? Is he a Texas fan and likes orange or just afraid of red?

Michael, next time you have Leelee Sobieski in a movie, can you please give her some screen time?

Had to Have It

A friend a mine is prepared for anything. He can make MacGyver embarrassed. This week he was able to convinced me that not only did I need the Gerber Suspension Multi-Plier, but only by divine intervention did I survive this long without one. After looking at it in four different stores best price was at Walmart and saved about eight dollars. I have to admit it is sweet.

Thought I would share my last had to have tool I bought about ten years ago.

When I went to study in Europe I carried a Richartz.

Is a knife, opener, corkscrew and a knife and fork. It has been in the closet for 9 years. So if the world comes to end I can eat with manners, drink my wine and defend against killer cats.

Disclaimer… Clyde (the Cat) was not harmed in the making of this Blog and performed all his own stunts. Seriously, he would not stop jumping on the chair to get to the camera strap so I just took a picture

My dog is Cool

If you want to help spread the word about the dangers of leaving an animal or child in a parked car my dog is cool is a website worth looking at. The site also has activites for kids or familes to do. So if you know any teachers, sunday school people, camp counselors or even a family member interested please pass along the website:

http://www.mydogiscool.com/index.php

Kids and parents can make a pledge not to leave an animal in a car and they get to have the animals picture on the site:

http://www.mydogiscool.com/c_cool.php

All summer long I will recive calls like this one on 06/15/09, in Grandville, MI.

Charges likely for woman whose dog died from heat in car parked at RiverTown mall
Charges are pending against the owner of a small dog that died Sunday after being left in a car outside of RiverTown Crossings, police said.
Firefighters got into the car and provided oxygen and water from a syringe to the Chihuahua, but it died at the scene, Grandville Detective Sgt. Renee Veldman said.
The dog, a 3- to 4-year old male, was named Lucky, police said.
Veldman said the dog's death serves as a tragic example of what can happen when children or animals are left in cars during summer months.
The outside temperature was 78 degrees when the dog was freed from the car. The vehicle's interior temperature was estimated at around 100 degrees.
The dog owner's name was not released.
Police said the car was parked outside the Macy's store around 2 p.m., with the windows cracked about one inch. An hour later, the owner let the dog out to relieve itself, and returned to the mall to continue shopping. At 4:47 p.m., police were called, and after trying unsuccessfully to locate the owner in the mall, called firefighters, who got the dog out of the car.
The owner, an area resident, came out of the mall while police were at the scene. She could be charged with animal abandonment or cruelty of an animal resulting in death, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail, $2,000 in fines and 300 hours of community service.
The Kent County Animal Shelter issued a statement saying it is "never acceptable to leave pets unattended in vehicles"... (The Grand Rapids Press)