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Maybe this is the path that the cool air takes from the air conditioner. His bark has changed also. It is now high pitched and sometimes squeaky. Liam is a compact dog, all muscle. Perhaps he retains heat and the small voice is all that he can force out. At this moment he is lying on the landing
outside the room across from where I am typing his blog. He got there after a series of short high barks. A thump. Liam in a lump.We think he looks like he is ready to be put on a spit, he is so neatly arranged.
Sorry, not a good visual but that is another summer activity, the barbecue
In writing this story of the new summer Liam, I had to revisit the infinitives -to lie and to lay. Why? I had a title for this week's story but I had a nagging feeling I was playing with laying in an incorrect way. My original title was "Sultry Summer Days and Liam Lays" I remember that lay is used "to put something down" and lie is "to rest or recline" Lay needs an object, what is Liam laying? but throw in a wrench because the past of lie is lay...confused? read more in this link. I needed to review it all again. It is fun and easy on the mind. http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/051402LieLay.htm
My conclusion. The reader will get what you mean no matter how you lay it out. I mix quotes and italics and omit periods and ignore Caps. Why am I obsessing over lay and lie?
Liam lay a lot this past week
Liam has been laying himself down all over
There has been no sitting out
spot thunderstorms
flash floods
Steamy days
Keep you in
no bug zapping
no bites
lying about
laying yourself down
We are laying off writing next Thursday. It is July 4th. It is not that we are busy with a celebration or that we are busy celebrating. It is traditionally a tough day for Liam. There are noises and the worst of these are fireworks. Liam will be in his thundershirt in the woman cave... he knows the loud day is coming... preliminary fireworks have been sounding this week. He has lain in his safe room this week when
not in his summer sprawl.
Wishing you all a fun safe Independence Day. Sending this video
Long before Sandy was a SuperStorm who damaged our psyches
rearranged our landscapes and shriveled out shores
she was a character in a wistful Springsteen song iconically evocative of the beach and July 4th.
Before Sandy was bad, she was good.
Bruce singing in 1975
everyone in the band is young and alive
the shore is intact
Enjoy
Woof, woof
We picked Casey up from "boarding school" last Friday, after a five-week stay. The course is normally four weeks, but Casey didn't graduate with the rest of his class. He was held back for being "stubborn", in particular about "going into/maintaining the lay down command when distracted--and sometimes when he's not. lol." wrote the trainer. I resisted the urge to write back, "Perhaps he's waiting for the 'lie down' command, trainer-person," and allowed him to stay, willing to trade good grammar for good manners. As it turns out, we got neither. It's never occurred to our sweet, goofy 2 1/2 year-old golden boy that what he learned at school could possibly apply at home...
ReplyDeleteNow that is hilarious clever and lovable. What an intense training course! Brilliant sentence "willing to trade good grammar for good manners"
DeleteLiam had a weekly course 4 years ago when he was 2 and the instructor gave up and in the last class let all the dogs run around and play in Liam style.
Nancy, thanks for writing. Your observations always funny insightful and sharp. Thanks