Jan 16 - 22

I have a model for a new business enterprise. Lately, I have had an earwax build up in my ears like it seems to happen every winter. So to help it I got that oil that you drop in your ear to help break it up. Well, it doesn’t seem to ever break it up. So the other night I put a couple of the ear drops in and went and to lie on the bed when Cooper comes over and starts licking my ear. At first I thought this is kind of gross but after a minute I realized it was starting to work. He was very persistent and finally seemed to have cleared the entire ear canal. So why not open a business called,Cooper Earwax Elimination Service. We will just set up at one of the back booths in the restaurant.

Jan 9 - 14

Puppy Flatulation

This is a subject we wish we never have to speak of and is a subject that we really hope goes away.

So, the other night my wife and I were lying in bed watching TV, when Kim says “Do you smell that”? I didn’t smell anything at first and thought maybe she was commenting on the fireplace. Then the fragrance hit me and I was sure the pooches had done their business in our bedroom. So, we both get up and start searching but find nothing. We get back in bed and there it is again. This time we look under the bed, behind the door, and everywhere else we could imagine to no avail. We get back in bed again and after a couple of minutes the smell comes back. That is when we both realized what was going on. Cooper was silently passing gas. If only we had COVID and couldn’t smell.

I want to apologize for Flapjacks being closed last Sunday. We got there at 7 and had no power, and when I called SMUD they said we would have power by 7:00 AM so we all just hung around. I called back in 20 minutes and it said 7:00 AM again. Ok, we all wait around in the cold and then I call at 7:40 and they say 7:00 again. We all wait around some more and finally at 8:15 I call and SMUD says we won’t get power on until noon. So I send everyone home, because we wouldn’t be able to open until 12:45. By the time I got to Sunrise Country Waffles at 9:00 they had turned on the power.

Dec 19 - 25

Today after taking the kids to lunch I came home and turned on the tv to vegetate. This movie comes on that is almost over, but appears very intense. Ryan Reynolds is all beaten up and this detective is explaining to him how this mafia type criminal has eluded law enforcement for years. The setting is in a hospital where two people are on life support. What ever the detective tells him makes him get very intense. Meanwhile the music gets louder and more intense, now I am on the edge of my seat to see what he does. The detective goes away and Mr. Reynolds goes into the room and unplugs the 2 guys and then he takes out his gun and holds it. Meanwhile all these other detectives come and bang on the glass doors to try and get him to stop. Now I have no idea what is going on but I am glued and excited to see what this will all come to. Suddenly the TV goes black, and I am trying to figure if that is part of the scene or what. I look over and Cooper is sitting on the remote.

Anybody who can explain to me what happened before and what does happen gets a free breakfast.

Everyone have a nice Christmas. I will be traveling to Modesto to see my wonderful mother in law, Peggy, so I won’t be writing anything next week. I will be driving my electric car and hopefully will make it home on one charge. Have fun everybody.

Oh, 2 quick stories:

One of my favorite customers Dolores, gave me a Panettone. I have been saving it and when I went to open the box, funny, it was on the shelf in the pantry, where it has always been, but the box was empty.

I needed to shut off the water to the back yard because of the possible freeze. The valve is under a valve cover but when I opened it I forgot I needed a hand shovel to dig out the dirt. I looked around for one and the first thing I found which worked perfectly, was an empty pineapple can.