The Morning Report
"This is the morning report, gives you the long and the short,
Every rip, roar, and snort, not a tale I distort,
of the morning report."
I got a call this morning from our beloved Captain Duct Tape via unreliable satellite phone. They have been quite depressed, as I would have imagined, but the story is not as bleak as I thought it was. Mango Lattitudes, the boat WAY out front and supposedly winning the race (according to the website), has a bunch of wimps on board: the cranked the engine yesterday. Losers!!! This means a DQ for them, or more accurately that they quit the race. So did Spindra. Wimps wimps wimps, all of 'em. But there are not any wimps aboard Southern Cross!!! No sir, there will be no 'pushing of the button' until the race is over. (For the uninitiated, pushing the button is how you crank the engine on a boat) So, the long and short of it, as I 'sang' to you above, is that they boys are still in the race and have as good a chance as anyone left. It's unclear as to who is still in the race, but I did tell Ryan that they were in LAST place and they better get it together. He said the winds were picking up along with their spirits. I'll wait for the proverbial fat lady before I make any more predictions!
In other news, love is in the air. In an alarming turn of events, Maggie (Kurt and Denise's dog, whom I'm dogsitting) has taken up with the dog next door. This is alarming because my dog, Julie, and Maggie have bonded in the past over their disdain for ALL other dogs. Julie cannot understand Maggie's turncoat ways, and is quite distraught. Maggie is an old dog on her last leg, yet when Brown Dog, Zachary's name for the chocolate lab next door, comes over Maggie has a new bounce and spring in her step. I tell ya, those two are in love. Even my two year old can see it, he said they look like Lady and the Tramp. Julie's so upset, Maggie was her BFF and now she's moved on. On a side note, I cannot for the life of me understand why all neighborhood dogs must wander into my yard. We must be the "cool" yard for the dogs. It's a little annoying running through the grass with Zachary dodging the land mines all these dogs leave. Geez.
That's all for now. It's a beautiful Sunday morning and Zachary and I must simply get outside. I think we'll go to the beach today.
Every rip, roar, and snort, not a tale I distort,
of the morning report."
I got a call this morning from our beloved Captain Duct Tape via unreliable satellite phone. They have been quite depressed, as I would have imagined, but the story is not as bleak as I thought it was. Mango Lattitudes, the boat WAY out front and supposedly winning the race (according to the website), has a bunch of wimps on board: the cranked the engine yesterday. Losers!!! This means a DQ for them, or more accurately that they quit the race. So did Spindra. Wimps wimps wimps, all of 'em. But there are not any wimps aboard Southern Cross!!! No sir, there will be no 'pushing of the button' until the race is over. (For the uninitiated, pushing the button is how you crank the engine on a boat) So, the long and short of it, as I 'sang' to you above, is that they boys are still in the race and have as good a chance as anyone left. It's unclear as to who is still in the race, but I did tell Ryan that they were in LAST place and they better get it together. He said the winds were picking up along with their spirits. I'll wait for the proverbial fat lady before I make any more predictions!
In other news, love is in the air. In an alarming turn of events, Maggie (Kurt and Denise's dog, whom I'm dogsitting) has taken up with the dog next door. This is alarming because my dog, Julie, and Maggie have bonded in the past over their disdain for ALL other dogs. Julie cannot understand Maggie's turncoat ways, and is quite distraught. Maggie is an old dog on her last leg, yet when Brown Dog, Zachary's name for the chocolate lab next door, comes over Maggie has a new bounce and spring in her step. I tell ya, those two are in love. Even my two year old can see it, he said they look like Lady and the Tramp. Julie's so upset, Maggie was her BFF and now she's moved on. On a side note, I cannot for the life of me understand why all neighborhood dogs must wander into my yard. We must be the "cool" yard for the dogs. It's a little annoying running through the grass with Zachary dodging the land mines all these dogs leave. Geez.
That's all for now. It's a beautiful Sunday morning and Zachary and I must simply get outside. I think we'll go to the beach today.
posted by Melanie @ 8:42 AM
1 Comments:
At 8:20 AM,
Michele S said…
Melanie- so glad to hear that Captain Ducttape isn't some GIRLIE MAN who pushed the STUPID BUTTON!!!! Woohoo!!! You rock CD!
As far as this Dog Love going on, I've written a song for them from the tune of Love Boat.
Dog love,
Exciting and new,
I'll smell your butt,
And I'll lick you too!
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