say cheese..only don't leave it in your pocket

ok, so...FYI: if you are using cheese to train your dog/s be sure not to leave it in your shorts pocket. especially if it's swiss cheese.

good thing it wasn't bleu cheese! ew.

we just started using the clicker on our walks again more for chaco than bruno. bruno is pretty good, and when we're out, he won't really eat treats. chaco, on the other hand is not shy nor distracted when it comes to cheese. he is focused with a capital f even though i didn't put one. (what does that even  mean anyway). i tried using the clicker with chaco much earlier, but it scared him because it was so loud, so we put it off for awhile. but today we pulled it out again, and his ears perked up and now he knows what the click means!

we may not be perfect, but we're getting better.

of course they waited til we got home to go to the bathroom again, but at least i got bruno out on the balcony first.

chaco offered to grade the books my kids wrote about their animals, and so i decided it might be good help. i was worried that he would be a softy, but he actually grades much tougher than i do. umm.. pretty much everyone got a big fat "f" because none of them were about dogs. oh, wait, he gave the wolf book a "c" because they said something about being in the dog family.

what-d'ya mean i can't give them all f's

when i delicately explained that they were about wild animals, not domestic animals, he threw the pen and yelled, "no! how could you do this?! fine then! you grade them yourself!" and found a spot to curl up and sleep. good thing he never holds a grudge!

and tomorrow will be my last administration of the TAKS this year! thank goodness. dying do learn the fourth graders scores! i may not be saying that when they actually come, but the not knowing is worse than knowing.

ok, had to share this because he's not curled up anymore. he's been sleeping on his back, and he's had his hands in the air for the last 3 minutes. (my friend says dogs have arms and legs, so surely they have hands as well).

his hands aren't moving. he's been laying in this position. such opposite personalities!

got a little cheese in my pocket goin stink-a-ling-a-ling...(to the tune of keep your hands to yourself).. ok, obviously i'm not the comedian in the family. nite!
julie

tricky dice and the ice pea-shooter

remember how yesterday i said my car computer was screwed up? today i'm pretty sure it's true. i took the car to quick trip where air is free (i cannot believe the other station charged a dollar...losers. boo). anyhoo, when i put air in yesterday, it read: LF 31. RF 22 (SUPPOSED TO BE AT 30) and the next screen registered LR 30 RR 33. usually if it's within 1 or 2 psi, i'm not concerned because weather can change things...but it was telling me to check the pressure, and i didn't have my gauge with me, so i of course put air in the RF (right front, right?) and when i finished, i got back in the car and lo and behold, it read RR 51psi -i didn't even put air in the rear tire...(i didn't have time to let air out in the rain, i just drove slowly and got to school). so. today when i stopped at QT, (i wish it was DQ), i put air in the back right tire and let air out of the front right tire. when i got back into the car, my FR read 32 (when in actuality i let air OUT of my front tire) and the BR had actually gone down from 51 to 41 after i had actually added air...hmmmm. (was that a little hard to follow? sorry!)

today was day 2 of teacher appreciation week at school-loved breakfast!! and i loved happy hour!! (sonic     in the lounge..and when i say lounge, i mean teacher's lounge). i took my sonic strawberry lime-aid and sipped it right on down to nothingness...then i got rid of the limes and i was left with the best part! THE TINY ICE CYLINDERS!! they are perfect! in honor of TAOS ice tea in HONDURAS, i pulled out the straw and got the little ice bullets and began to aim around the room from my desk. it works like a pea shooter...only you don't have to go around and pick up the peas. i'm sure the janitor was probably wondering why there were mini puddles of water around the room...i may of may not have even set up a target. yep. 3 out of 10 from 12 ft...not too bad. (trajectory and wind conditions...)

see the diet coke bottle over there? they were probably goin' about 60mph..could've poked an eye in...

in HONDURAS when we'd go roleando, (rolling around..ok, cruising around the main drag between a few roundabouts), i'd get the TAOS tea and shoot the ice bullets at signs...i got really good at it too.

i'm not sure if i mentioned it on the blog or not, but i'm thinking about the idea of conditioning students with a clicker like training the dogs...i don't know if it would work or not, but it might be worth a shot.

pulled out the old trick dice the other day, and i've been using it with the boys..whoever rolls a 7 or an 11 has to take the garbage out...it was working and then yesterday and today, i'd roll a 7, bruno would roll an 11, roll again..11/11... 11/7...wait a minute what's going on here? chaco just sat amazed watching, and when he finally left the room bruno was laughing so hard, that's when he told me he snuck out to the exxon on the corner, and found some trick dice too. apparently he's been rolling dice with chaco-double or nothin' to do his chores...smart, smart dog. chaco still hasn't caught on, so i can still use it with chaco!

don't roll the dice unless you know how they're gonna' fall!
jules