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Name: Keno
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Subject: A totally NSC post
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2014
Time: 10:27:28 AM
Remote Address: 162.255.157.10
Message ID: 289094
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I can recall my late first wife Sue and her telling me over and over again not to complain about being a young parent, since by the time we hit our 40s our kids would be grown and the rest of our lives would be carefree and easy. Sue died way too young, but she did live long enough to see that she was wrong on that one count. You just don't figure when you're 20 that you're gonna raise your grandkids when you're in your 40s and still be raising the youngest of them past the age of 60, but that's where I'm at in my older age, and early this morning while I was dealing with a "grandson problem", I could again hear Sue telling me about how carefree I would be by now and should have been for the last 15 or 20 years.
As usual, me the night owl, was up all of last night doing this and that, and I finally got to bed after 4am, which is about my normal bedtime. The problem was that my daughter Jackie went on this job interview at 315 pm thursday and didn't come back home last night. She does this every so often but always calls to let us know where she is when she does this, but when she called last night we never heard the phone ring thanks to the loud music I was playing and I didn't think of checking the old answering machine where she did leave us a message. She also didn't take her little dog with her and I told her last spring when she moved back in here that I would not be walking her dog - ever, that was her or my grandson Cooper's job and that was understood. So around 10 pm last night it was Coop's bedtime and I told him to walk the dog first since he hadn't been out since 3pm. Cooper told me he didn't want to go out in the cold and light snow that was falling (but I know it's actually the wildlife that's out around here at nite that scares him, as he never will walk the dog after sunset). So he said that he would bring the dog up to his bedroom and close the door, and the animal would hold it in till his mom got back - or till morning. Not fair to the pooch, but this isn't my dog and I wasn't going out there in the cold either.
Fast forward to 6am this morning when Coop normally gets up for school... I set my alarm for 610 am in case he slept thru his alarm which he does half the time, and sure enough he did this morning. So I yelled out to him at 610 to get up and to walk the dog first thing. He did that and about 4 minutes later I hear the dog barking madly followed by a long and loud human scream of pain coming from outside. I jumped up from bed, ran downstairs and in the door hobbles Cooper. He was only wearing his undershorts (with the temps in the teens F mind you!), and he was barefoot. If there's one thing you don't do around here - even in the middle of summer, is go off our porch barefoot since we have about one thousand and one small cactus all over the place, and we only had a skiff of snow last nite so they weren't covered by the snowfall. So when he let the dog out he stood on the porch and as soon as the dog hit the front yard, there was a family of deer lying down about 15 feet from the house. The other rule here is when you let out your dog without a leash, you first look out and make sure there's no wildlife in your yard or problems like what happened this morning will take place. So the dog made a beeline for the deer and Cooper ran after the dog and as he grab ahold of the animal he stepped on a cactus. I know firsthand how painful this is, as about 5 years ago I slipped, lost my scandal, and my foot landed on a cactus. So he comes back in the house in great pain and the bottom of his foot is covered with cactus spines. If you ever had to remove these things from your foot then you know what we were up against and after he removed the first few big ones, it was my job to remove the rest, and the little ones are the hardest and most painful ones to get out. So I'm holding a flashlight with one hand and trying to pick them off his foot, and several times he would scream and blood would be drawn after I got one out. But then it was time to remove the smallest ones which are almost impossible to see even with a flashlight. "Grampa you gotta get 'em out, I got a big basketball game after school". He's on the middle school team and he's their best player, but I already knew that you feel these things in your foot for a good 2 days later since some get embedded in your foot. So I told him he likely wasn't gonna be playing any basketball today. I was also looking at the clock and I knew I won't be done by the time his bus got here and his school is 17 miles outside of town. Right at this time, in walks his mom, but she is blind in one eye so all she could do was hold the flashlight for me and I ended up getting out as many of these spines as I could while wiping up the blood with a hand towel. His mom then drove him to school (he's still thinking he would play in that game this afternoon), but I hope my grandson learned a lesson about going outside barefoot around here (as far as going outside in the cold and snow in his undies, he's been doing that since he was about 5 or so, I don't think he's ever gonna change on that one). Anyway, after only 2 hours of sleep I wasn't going to head back to bed after this as I was wide awake, so I went to the computer, did my normal morning work hours early, finished, and figured I would write this up since it's still early and heck, I got nothing else to do for a few more hours and writing does ease my busy mind. Okay, so now I'm done and I'm going to go out for my morning walk in the freezing fog and flurries, but I can still hear my late soulmate saying to me many years ago about how free I'm suppose to be at this age. Yet sometimes things don't end up in life as they were planned, and this sure wasn't the way to start off anybody's day!
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