Citizen Dog by Mark O'Hare for February 22, 2013

Wouldn’t bother my kitty boy at all. On the other hand I’d have to slip the THUNDERSHIRT on Skippy aka The Drama Queen"

Hope you are healing quickly @Stel Bel. If I were in the area I’d make you my famous Mango Cheesecake with Passion Fruit Glaze on an Oreo Cookie crust. That’ll cure and or heal anything.

The fireworks are just beginning.

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

Good morning people and pets.My boy would be with them.

My cats can relate.

My cats couldn’t care less about fireworks, my dogs though are another matter…

Sometimes, the best thing to do is to mellow out with some good music…

Good morning, CDers!!

I almost forgot how to post a picture!!!! I really thought that this surgery would be “no big deal”! You know, done laparoscopically…in, in the morning…out, in the afternoon. Yikes! It kind of " knocked me for a loop!" (what does that really mean?) Thank goodness for Percoset! (note to at home, alone… : take a ½ tab with food — cuts down on nausea)

Anyway, again to at home, alone… : extractions are extractions! They hurt! But, this too, will pass…. I’m feeling much better and have learned which moves bring the pain and which moves avoid the pain….lol.

Thank you all for your get-well wishes! You all really helped me feel better and better….faster and faster! You are the best bunch of people!

And, a special thanks to SusanSunshine, who indeed travels with her own “feel-good rays of sunshine” for letting you all know what was going on…as I said, I didn’t expect to be “out of commission” and “knocked flat on my a$$”, but knowing how upsetting it can be when someone inexplicably “disappears” (like puppybreath), I’m glad she visited Citizen Dog . (I wish she’d stop by more often!)

Thanks, I.M.!!! And, thanks for the get well messages the last few days!

Are you gettin’ ready for more snow this week-end?

It nice to have you back, StelBel.

We have a movie director and an actor/comedian living on our road and they have put on fireworks duels on July 4th. Our Lab Cleo would make the rounds at parties on the lake. Fireworks didn’t bother her a bit. One year my wife and I were to fly to Arizona on July 5th so I could photograph a friend’s daughter’s wedding. Cleo had not come home from the night before. I searched everywhere without seeing her. We were getting frantic as it approached 10AM. We called our neighbors and finally Cleo came up the driveway. We assume that she found a party and fell asleep in someone’s house. Everyone knew her and people would say “hello Cleo” when I would walk with her. Many of them knew her, but didn’t know me.

Good morning to the Citizens of Dog firecrackers.

@ nighthawks

Still haven’t swept all the cobwebs out of the file room…and, in fact, it’s getting even dustier and more cobwebby…

but, on a different note: Thank you for sending Cleo to brighten my day!!!!

Feelin’ almost chipper now….

It’s nice they sound the warning alarms before the fireworks.@StelBel – glad you are feeling better. Great pictures as usual.

@x_Tech

I almost fell out of my desk chair when I saw your rendition of the Close To Home toon!!! Ohhhh…..the pain you caused cos I was laughin’ so hard…….OMG!!

@Shika

I’ve been missing our regular nightly “misses”…thanks for you well wishes.

@Dry

Wow! I loved the hospital johnny on the chihuahua! And, the dog with the ice pack….and, the tough little hamster…. and , especially the "thermometer goes …. where??? mutt! Thanks for all of them! They made me laugh (gently…) And, thanks for your good wishes!

I’m sorry that I “disappeared” like that. I felt kind of funny announcing a one-day surgery thing and I really did think it wasn’t going to be a big deal. I know we all hate disappearances, me included, but I fully expected to be here as usual on Wednesday. So….WHAT DO I KNOW?!

Anyway — thank you, my friend!

YEAH, STEL IS BACK! NOW ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD AGAIN!

You are welcome for the photos! And I love the chatty ladies up above. That’s one of my favorite smiley’s and the little green laughing guy!

I’d sure like to hug and squeeze little Dozer. Sweet little fellow! How did he lose his eye? I didn’t realize pugs shed so much.

Good afternoon Fellow Baby, cleo, sugie, and all ye hiding in the bunker from the Fireworks!

Welcome back StelBel! Keep getting better!

at home I think I’ve found you a new avatar!

Aw Stel…..

My comments keep disappearing.

Hi JP Steve!

Susan nice to see you here! Drop by anytime! You would fit in nicely with this group!

at home, So that is the REAL you sitting on the rock?

HEADS UP! Greg posted a new Dillo today! cleo saw it. Yes, cleo I saw your post. But that was 11 hours ago.

Stel, I’m glad Dozer was rescued! God love him!

He must be doing quite well even with one eye.

Hey Stel, if you’re going to have pets, you gotta have a good vacuum cleaner!

Just razzin’ you! I am sure you are a very handsome distinguished gentleman! I don’t have a beard, but I am salt and pepper, and each time I get my hair cut, there seems to be more and more of those gray things laying on the stylists apron she puts over me. Wonder where they come from? Surely not from me!

athome, when you reach your 60’s? Shi! man, I am 10 months away from reaching my big 60! Where oh where do the years go, anywho?

athome, a couple years or so, now, is a lot! :-D

Rest well, my friend! Enjoy my little buddy posted up above!

…sleep would be nice…Good night people and pets.

High wave warnings through tomorrow morning. I might go park at the sea wall tomorrow and watch the waves.Amazingly peaceful.

“Amazingly peaceful.” INDEED IT IS my friend!