On Mar 28, 12:50*pm, Kathleen > wrote:
> I admit it. *I am. *But times are hard and you take your laughs where
> you can find them.
>
> So Dear Daughter and her beau were over for dinner and were out back on
> the trampoline, much to Zane's delight. Zane is our big male border
> collie. *He has a tennis ball fetish. *And a trampoline fetish. *His
> favorite thing in the whole world (apart from flyball) is seeing my
> daughter put her headphones on and roll up her jeans. *This means she's
> going out to jump on the trampoline, which means he can jump with her,
> and bring her tennis balls, which she kicks or throws for him to retrieve..
>
> The presence of Boyfriend adds a new dimension to the game. *The pair of
> them throw the tennis balls at each other as they bounce, in what I can
> only interpret as some sort of bizarre courtship ritual, and Zane
> retrieves them after the ricochet.
>
> I consider Boyfriend either foolish or in love because there's no way
> anybody with an ounce of common sense would allow DD to peg a tennis
> ball at them at short range. *The girl has a hell of an arm on her, and
> dead accurate aim. And sure enough, she hit him in the eye with one.
>
> Inside, I dug in the freezer for a package of frozen peas to apply to
> the emerging shiner. *Only, I didn't realize there was a split in the
> plastic bag and as I was getting it out, a handful of frozen peas
> spilled and bounced all over the kitchen floor.
>
> It was funny enough to watch Scully scrambling around the kitchen,
> scarfing up individual frozen peas. *Seriously, what kind of border
> collie is mad for frozen peas? *But when Dear Daughter added in PacMan
> sound effects... *"WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA"...
>
> It ranks right up there with the whole "peanut butter on the roof of the
> mouth" thing.

I had a girlfriend who had a cat that went nuts for olives, jarred
green olives. If you gave her a chice between wet food and olives, it
was hands down olives. She'd jump 3 feet or more into the air to try
to snag an olive.

--Bryan