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Brian Fleck

Walkin'

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 4:42pm
Death by Jenga
By
Brian Fleck

The day before starting our big trip to Rome and then on to Sicily for my niece’s wedding, disaster struck Sabra personally three times.
First Pearl, our labradoodle, managed to get her anxiety medication off the middle of the kitchen island and eat a 30-day supply. Regular readers will know that we just went through this ordeal a few weeks ago, and we should be old pros at it by now. Since the two-dollars-a-pop pills don’t contain any real drugs– only herbs– they are as harmless as setting six sawbucks on fire and dropping them into a large, empty, metal trashcan.


Sticks and knives

Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 6:34pm
walkin'
By
Brian Fleck

I returned to Chicago for a brief visit with my folks this last week.
Mom wanted help planting her garden, and brother Bob offered to get Dad and me out fishing.


Walkin'

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 5:17pm
Echinacea breath
By
Brian Fleck

Pearl, our ditzy labradoodle, and I are in the doghouse lately.
She committed her sin several weeks ago while we were watching Lexi, a Jack Russell terrier that comes to visit from time to time. Lexi is over 100 years-old in human terms, and has been given only several months to live from a variety of doggie disorders she’s contracted over the past decade.
She keeps turning kibble into cobble, however, if you get my drift.


Walkin'

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 5:26pm
Building to standards
By
Brian Fleck

Several new power saws, four months and a pile of wood later; I finished the cat exercise wheel this week and delivered it to Cat Lady. Her felines were less than impressed and didn’t have a clue on how to use it. This didn’t deter Cat Lady, however, as she got down on the floor and put one knee on the wheel to demonstrate.
“See kitties, this is how you do it,” she said, breaking the wheel in half.


Walkin'

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 4:11pm
Catwheel continued
By
Brian Fleck

How Sabra and I have been using our free time demonstrates the difference between our approaches to doing things.


walkin'

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 4:39pm
Karen and Cat Lady
By
Brian Fleck

I’ve been working in the garage a lot these past couple of months trying to build what is essentially a giant hamster wheel. “Who needs a giant hamster wheel?” you may ask. The answer, silly, is Karen and Cat Lady.
You may have seen Cat Lady about town, she’s the woman that has a special stroller designed to push her cats, currently Sissy Lu and Puffy. While she walks, she talks to her pets much as a mother might, cooing soft words of praise and comfort.