Hounds for the Basket Ville.

As some of you know I have 3 large dogs and 3 large hounds, The youngest is a hound, a Bloodhound/Redbone hound- 50/50, is a handful. T-bone by name after T- Rex cause both are terrible monsters  He is almost a year now. 
We payed over 5000 bucks for fence and it gave us 24 hours peace, on the 25th hr he was on the other side waving at us. (we didn't pay anything close to that for him, no wheres near that I can assure you, he is the only one who was not rescued in one fashion or another)
So tonight the lights have just gone off and I am heading to bed, I glance down at the middle of the floor and notice a large stuffed toy with a realist tail. Realistic tail? Warning bells start going off in my head.
Hmm the the little devil has found a mummified large black and white country kitty, a polecat, a damned skunk, so old it no longer stinks, that he has been chewing on. He has kindly brought it to me hoping I will exchange it for cookies. Now he wants to give me kisses.
I can only hope I survive till he is a year old in a few weeks, beyond that is a gift.

Black Widow

Black widows, like tornados, copperheads, rattlers, and scorpions are a fact of life in this section of Texas, nothing to get upset about normally, just take care of em and get on with your rat killing.
I am out in the man cave/shop cleaning off the spider webs of the desk top like usual and alarm bells start going off, never did before, don't know why.
Look under desk top, there she is so I grab first aerosol can I can find, she drops, rolls, shakes it off and goes hide. Apparently clp gun oil is good for cleaning and polishing your black widows.
Ok she stays away from me, I keep my hands away from her. Despite what y'all have seen on t.v. they don't hide in closets and jump 12 feet out and go straight for the juglar vein-usually.
3hrs later I notice same type web round the bottom of chair my butt has been sitting in, I am wearing shorts. Remove web with broom, decide to flip over chair and check. Largest meanest black widow has been sharing chair with me, but in the resulting panic this great specimen and prize breeding stock was somehow totally and utterly destroyed.
This is why God has little time to work on the middle east, because He is kindly looking out for idiots like me

Happy Birthday Marines

USMC happy birthday
10 Nov 1775 - 10 Nov 2014
Semper Fi

Aztlan confusion

Aztlan - the fabled mexican land that composes large areas of the western United States, was 'stolen' by the US, in combat, agreed by treaty and compensation, from the brown man, mexico, by evil white men, Americans...... but the story real does not end or begin there.
You see the mexicans stole it from the white men, Spaniards in combat, who stole it from the red man, Aztecs in combat, who stole it from other red men, various tribes, in combat.
Yet somehow only the Amercans are guilty of some horrible crime?Once again I am confused by our current media's edicts.

Dog T.V.

Dog t.v. - evernight, ok early morning the labrador decievers need me to watch dog t.v. with them. I dont know, maybe I control the remote. We must sit for hours staring into the star lite darkness at their favorite channel. Only to be punctuated occasional by the break, where they rush off like luney-ticks to attack something real or imagined. There is the part where they occasionally sing with or without the neighbors canines or tell the coyotes to get their own t.v. Frequent naps are required. There is also a part where they chase themselves into exhaustion I think over diffrences over what to watch. Then there are snack breaks where they drag me inside to convince me the need a cookie only to drag me back out a short time later. Sub freezing winter nights- hellish hot, dry summer nights- and glorious nights in between, it must be done no matter what I say or how I beg. I am off now to watch dog t.v. on a much too hot July night.

Labrador Decievers

5 rescue dogs and when they were pups we were told they were Labrador Retrievers except one, he was supposed to be blood hound but.....
Here is what we believe we have
Deacon/Bear- Bear    Australian shepard-bulldog weighing in at 107lbs
Snooker Doodles   Catahoola- the lousey-anna swamp dog.
Margret O'HoolaHound/ Maggie    Lacey Blue- the state dog of Texas. Better known as blue lazy.
(Win)CHESTER     Another 107 pounder who appears to actually be part Lab and part North Texas Begging Hound.
Ruger/ #%!#     Blood Hound who appears to actually be part lab.

All labrador deciecvers. All valued at $0. Actual worth- PRICELESS?

400 years of slavery?

If we generiously count 1775 as the beginning of the US, slave importation was banned in 1807, Slavery was finaly banned in the Union slave holding states by 1866 (the last states where it was legal) How in the hell does this equal 200 or the oft quoted 400 years of slavery in the US? Prior to that the British, French, Dutch or Spanish govts were responsible for it.