Citizen Dog by Mark O'Hare for August 03, 2014

My daughter always has to go back and check the garage door!

Did you lock the back door?

Good morning, cleo, sugar, Fellow Baby & the rest of the CD gang!

Good morning fans. A little Thanksgiving early humor.

Good morning people and pets.

Happy Sunday everyone, hope everybody’s condition is wonderfully human!

I thought we couldn’t check the stove so I just brought our suitcases.

There’s one in every crowd! Next he’ll want to know if anyone put the cat out…..

Good Morning, and Happy Sunday, Everyone.

My oldest son-in-law can pretty much control everything in their house (and cabin) from his iPhone..Me, I just remember to turn the stove off and lock the door before leaving. You know, by twisting one of those old fashioned knobs!

Good Morning Grog Dry, Cleo, Stel, Shika, Happy, & all CDers out there.

Good afternoon Fellow Baby, cleo, sugie and all ye’ gathered here checking front doors, back doors, apps, stoves and what not!

Yes, go back to bed Mrs. Lawrence. The Boston Tea party is still years off.

You may be in luck here. I have, somewhere in my knick-knack closet an example of early American scrimshaw in the form of a small dog. According to the provenance, this piece dates to 1767 (the right forepaw bears the inscription 1767) and craved by a common sailor by the name of Joshua [surname unknown] aboard the American whaling vessel Melvin F. Lawrence. The M.F. Lawrence was not apparently a highly successful ship as this scrimshaw was executed in hard cheese. Other records show that Joshua was a cabin boy so he most likely didn’t get the best of rations, which may explain the Latin phrase “Et odio varius” (I hate cheese) in scrimshaw across the dogs hind quarters.I’ll see if I can dig this piece out and post a pic if you’re interested.

And “does a Dog wad His Tail?”

For those Origonians and Washingtonions that know what a _ Marionberry_ is.I’m the empty lot down the Streat, I found a large patch.I filled a coffee can in about half an hour or less.