Dec 12 - 18

Caution there is foul language in this post. So be prepared…

Today my wife asked me to find her something on TV to watch while she was exercising. So I looked and found the 1970 film “Love Story” with Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. As we were watching I noticed cussing. I don’t remember cussing back then. Growing up we lived across the street from a Catholic school in Grass Valley, and we didn’t even know what cussing was. Well except from my parents, but it was all in Italian. I don’t know why there would be Italian cussing because I was a darling child.  Well, the Italian cuss words carry a lot more weight than ours because they have multiple syllables. 

Massgotzona. Pissteefero. Mayala Cana. Facci di merda.  Beescorro. Afanculo. 

Ok, maybe I am going a little too far and please don’t ask me to translate, but I think these are a little more powerful than a simple single syllable word. Oh, and the nuns across the street just assumed we were saying nice things.

So the other night we were watching a movie when a scene comes on with a little girl who picks up her stuffed animal. Yes, it was a dog and yes Cooper went nuts.

Folks we work with a Mandarin ranch in Loomis and we have been selling their Mandarins at TAYLORS.

This year I brought some down to FlapJacks. They are $17 for a 10 lb bag. Enjoy

Dec 5 - 11

Characters and events depicted in this blog are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Pierre needed a new phone and decided to run to the phone store to get one. His son asked if he could come along. Pierre’s son Freddie has developmental disabilities and sometime has a tough time controlling his emotions. He is also 6 foot 6 inches tall. So, Pierre asked Freddie if he would be fine just sitting there while this goes on. Freddie said “I will be perfect dad, please can I come along”. I reminded him that I had just gotten him a phone a few months ago because he had broken his. He said, that is right dad, I will be very quiet and very good. It takes about an hour to go through the whole procedure at the phone store and about 15 minutes in, Freddie decided he had to have a phone. At this juncture, I know it is the end of the world because I told him no, and I can’t believe how I should have known this would have happened. Of course everyone in the store knows what is going on, but the sales man used this distraction to sell me every possible option as well. In the end Pierre had to promise to order Freddie a new phone and after he got everyone home and he drank a few bottles of wine everything was just fine.

Nov 28 - Dec 4

Cooper needs serious therapy.

So I have told you how Cooper does not like to see dogs on the TV. The other day my daughter was watching a cartoon where there was a cartoon dog lying on the couch. The dog made no sounds just looked at the kid in the story. Cooper saw that and went nuts. I mean this dog has serious issues and I think that I need to find a dog shrink. I mean is he jealous of the other dogs? Or does he think these other dogs are a threat to his family. Or maybe Cooper is a spy and he is concerned these dogs will tell us the truth about his long lost past. You know maybe that is it, he has hidden his past and wants to keep it hidden. In any case he needs some real therapy and if any of you have any ideas, please pass those ideas along.

Folks, we need to raise the price of the Friday night dinners a couple of bucks. Apparently, a dog Shrink is a lot more then I thought.

Nov 21 - 27

So tonight we celebrated our practice Thanksgiving and when everyone left, my wife and I and the kids and Cooper were all pretty tired so we went upstairs to call it a night and watch TV. I turn it on and there it is, Firehouse Dog. Cooper couldn’t have been any happier. However, my wife wasn’t so happy.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We will be closed on Thursday so that our staff can enjoy time with their loved ones.