Motherwise Cracks

This past weekend we went to see Beauty and the Beast (at ArtPark in Lewiston, NY). I had not expected that half of the audience to be under age 10 with many of them decked out in full Belle regalia. They were so cute! The other majority of the audience arrived in busloads from senior centers all across Western New York. They were cute too.

We bought the play tickets about 2 months ago. I had no idea then that I would be living with a beast who I am trying to train to be a beauty at this time. We got a new dog -  well sort of. She is a 2 year-old black lab, weighing in at a whopping 80 pounds of pure energy. She is nutsy and has more in common with Tigger than anything else. That’s what we ened up calling her – Nutsy.

The kids are just now understanding why I didn’t want to get a new puppy. If they think my Nutsy is a lot of work, just imagine what a puppy would be like. They wanted cute: I wanted a good old dog.

I got her this ball on a rope thing and she is insane with joy when she plays with  it.  It was worth the $15 for the amount of P&V she burns off playing with it. (What’s that? You who don’t know what P&V stands for? Consider yourself younger than me. That membership in that club is getting bigger daily.)

And speaking of P&V, I am going to possibly my last tennis lesson tomorrow. I am playing with people considerably younger than myself including a 15-year-old snot who has the manners of a goat and is in worse shape than myself, who freely admits that I am more decades older than him than I care to admit. I want to smack him up but I am not the teacher and it’s driving me crazy. It does motivate me make him run around the court chasing balls from left to right. Is that mean and immature? Yep and it will continue until he learns to respect this elder.

So, this week I am using the “tire them into submission with a ball” training technique to train both beasts. I am confident it will work with at least one. She will work for bones.

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“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.“  – Albert Einstein