Boni

Oh my, I woke up this morning, got the kids to eat at least something, made their lunches, let the dogs out, fed the dogs, the usual dramas ensued, except their was an added bonus (en francais~~BONI). Onyx, at five and a half months has absolutely grossed out the girls by starting to hump the floors. He gets a distant look in his eyes and then wind him up and away he goes. Tibbles was absolutely horrified. We have dealt with the red rockets, lipsticks, but this has gone too far. A vet has told me not to neuter until one year of age, due to recent data pointing to more hip displasia, and long bone growth. The dog is not going to have any hips (or rear end) left at this point if I wait a year to get him neutered. We didn't partake of the community supper last night. I just couldn't do it this year, plus, Addled gets home just around the time the chew fest ends, so, we would just get the remnants. For ten bucks a head, it was not worth eating the gristley ends of roast beef, and mayo with a bit of cabbage. (Really it is a good dinner, but, there is the grad one coming up and I am saving myself for it). http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2008/05/14/nb-skateboarder.html?ref=rss&loomia_si=t0:a16:g4:r4:c0 Now here's a story of a guy, who was fined for skateboarding on the street, refused to pay his fines, and now is in jail. Skateboarders are great, I really like them. Great way to travel if you are not of the uncoordinated type. Yet, I do not think skateboarding on the streets is a safe way to travel, just as I do not think bicycle riding on busy streets is a safe way to travel. (Here's a hypocritical point, I have seen my daughter Tibbles with a rope on her bike pulling Gibbles to school, they are both wearing helmets, but although I have lectured on safety, I turn a blind eye. It looks quite funny really ~~~I think they got the idea from Napoleon Dynamite only Kip was wearing rollerblades). If a skate boarder hits a patch of grit and gravel, it is so easy to fall off, and if you are on the street you can end up as a crumpled mess underneath a bus or car. Really, their should be lanes for bicycles and alternate methods of travel. I mean lanes EVERYWHERE, it's probably not in the budgets for municipalities, but, it would save a lot of consternation for drivers and those that are going green with their methods of transportation. I used to have to bike from Oxford and Hyde Park all the way to Fanshawe College. I would be biking and crying, wailing with my mouth open. You were not allowed to ride on the sidewalk so you had to be out in traffic. This was about ten or eleven years ago, and I have not sat on another bicycle since. It was absolutely terrifying. The cars were inches away, some would get way too close, you had to watch out for gravel and potholes, and sewer grates. Speaking of which, HD is going into a triathalon soon. She mentioned to me that if you are in a long bicycle ride, like the Tour de France http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html , you do not have bathroom breaks, you just go as you pedal. That would really make one have second thoughts on tailgating during the race.