Today With Patty – Jan. 8, 2007

by Patty

Today is January 8. Has anybody told Mother Nature that? For God’s sake, my daffodils are up, and my forsythia is blooming. It is not April 8, it is January 8. What is this all about? Somebody needs to tell Mother Nature to take a look at the calendar.

I have a message to send to Nancy and Kris Curtis – please send Ryal some food. Ryal has this peculiar way of “appropriating” food. At first I used to think it was the 36-hour rule, as in, if food had not been touched for 36 hours, Ryal thought it was his. But lately, if I just turn my back, he eats it. There was an ugly incident with a Chex party mix that I brought in and was planning to eat at some point. When I went looking for it, guess what? Ryal found it and snarfed it. Another case in point: Last week I am running around like a crazy woman, and I do not have time to have breakfast or lunch. I finally get back to the office about 2:30 p.m., and I know I am going to get something to eat, because I had some wonderful bread and turkey salad that I brought to work. But guess what? The human vacuum cleaner found it. So I was ranting and raving about who ate my bread, and Kipp and Beth covered for Ryal, and Ryal was hiding back in the podcasting room so he did not have to admit to it.

Today I brought in a sandwich in a Ziploc bag, and I got Ryal’s attention and warned him that this was mine and that he was not to touch it and that I am on to him. So far, so good.

I am now feeling as if I have to mark my territory, and I know it is killing him that I have peanut butter filled pretzels and chocolate meringues from Trader Joe’s that he really wants to get into, but he cannot, because he cannot sneak in unless I open either one of them first. Ha! So I am really tormenting him with this.

Of course, what do you expect of someone who eats SpaghettiOs COLD out of the can?!

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