The first one is almost dry enough to paint, so this one should be dry enough to paint in a little over a week. I hollowed it out more so it might dry a little faster than the first one.
Ceramic Dog Candle Holder
This is one gift that will be late. It has been raining so much here in Portland that the self-hardening clay is taking a very long time to dry with all the moisture in the air.
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Fleegle – Did You Say Something?
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Negotiating with Cookies – Grinch
Fleegle nose bumps me in the leg at the park and asks, “Raud, are you a Grinch?”
“Why do you ask?’
“I overheard one of your friends call you that?”
I nod my head. “Well, they were right. I am a Grinch, completely unreformed.”
He tilts his head to the side. “What is a Grinch?”
“A Grinch is someone who has great difficulty getting into the Christmas spirit, or simply chooses not to bother.”
“Christmas spirit? Is that spirit as in like Buck the ghost dog who comes around to visit every now and then?”
“No, not like Buck the ghost. Christmas spirit is when you feel enthusiastic about doing a lot of gift shopping, competing for parking, maxing out your credit cards on things people will return or re-gift. Christmas spirit is being excited about family visits and having relatives stay with you who hog the remote.”
Fleegle tilts his head to the other side. “But I heard it had to do with the birth of some guy named Jesus who was born a long time ago.”
“Shush, don’t say that too loud or the pc police will snatch you up.”
“Why? He sounds like a pretty cool guy who could turn rocks into dog biscuits.”
“I know a few Labradors who don’t need Jesus for that.”
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Negotiating with Cookies – Shop ‘Till You Drop
While on a walk in town among all the holiday shoppers, Fleegle says, “There sure are a lot of people carrying packages.”
“That’s because it’s the Christmas shopping season and people are filling the emotional void they feel with buying stuff for one another.”
“Like when you give me food to fill the void in my belly when I’m hungry?”
“Yes, just like that.”
Fleegle thinks on this a moment as we walk some more, then asks, “And what do they do later when they’re hungry again?”
“They return what they were given and buy something else.”
“And when they’ve finished their ‘business’ with that and are hungry again?”
“They surf eBay for impulse buys.”
“People sure do spend a lot of time on their shopping. What do they do with all the stuff?”
“If they’re lucky, they have an attic, and then after a year or so they take a carload of donations to Goodwill.”
“At least when I eat and do my ‘business’ it’s biodegradable.”
I scratch my head. “I wonder if old stuff at Goodwill is just a slower form of biodegrading.”
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I Am Looking For Fiction Suggestions
I was in the children’s book section of Barnes & Noble the other day looking for some examples of Boy and his Dog stories where the two of them have conversations with each other like I’ve been writing in the Negotiations with Cookies series. I was looking for actual dialogue between human and dog and not just stories told from the perspective of the dog.
Even with the help of the person running the kid’s book section, who was well informed on past and current fiction offerings, I came up empty handed.
So I ask, do you know of any good examples of stories with dialogue between a human and their dog? Or any animal really.
Gnawing the Bone 