squished dog, a photo and a joke...

is what he was. This photo was taken less than a minute after the yelping had stopped.  He was still in wide eyed shock and panting...

I was NOT a happy camper yesterday.  I tried to be nice about it.  I tried.  I was worried but I was also angry.  I wanted to slap HIM and nurture Capone at the same time.  I would have felt the same if it had been one of the kids.  Here's the story...

HE asked me to take photos of him on one of his bikes for photo for a forum.  HE wanted to capture a certain effect.  HE had to go fast to get it.  HE was the husband.

Capone has a habit of chasing the bikes as they blat around the track out the back of our house.  He's always done it.  It's a game that has us cracking up because he's a little ball of fur  moving so fast through the grass after the bikes that it is comical.  It wasn't yesterday though.  HE wasn't watching and HE was going too fast and ran over Capone who was coming over to me.  OK so 'it' happens...

We live on a very sandy block and we've had rain recently so the ground was very soft.  Which is a good thing now because it would have done a lot more damage. So after all the panic and concern, Capone got up and trotted up to the house with us. He was a little worse for wear in the cleanliness stakes but he was OK.  No broken skin and he wasn't nursing anything.  He was a bit stiff this morning though but came right this afternoon.  HE breathed a sigh of relief.

I think it will take about 3 years for me to complete Project 365 at the rate I'm going.  I took some pics with my macro this arvy.  But it's only 1 photo a day for Project 365 so I can only use one.  This was taken a couple of days ago ON my knees ON gravel IN my dressing gown WITH my butt up in the air. So I'm surprised it's in focus.

This is today's.

And I even knocked this up in under an hour which is really saying something because I'm a pathetically slow scrapper.  It's a sneak for Aussie Scrapjack.

I love doing these layouts.  I grab the first photo that 'strikes' me and then the embellishments that I feel in the mood to use and then I just let it happen.  I love a 'junked up' layout.  Heaps of random stuff coming together.  It is so liberating not to have product constraints which seems to be my life now.  Not that I'm complaining because I like having to make something work.  I just like doing and using what feels good at the time.

And HERE is the best joke I've heard this week:

THE HORTH WHITHPERER

bloke calls his mate, a Cowboy, and says he's sending a friend over to look at a horse.

Cowboy asks, 'How will I recognize him?'

'That's easy; he's a Dwarf with a speech impediment.'

So, the Dwarf shows up and the Cowboy asks him if he's looking for a male or female horse.

'A female horth.'

So he shows him a prized filly.

'Nith lookin horth. Can I thee her eyeth?'

So the cowboy picks up the Dwarf and the little fella gives the horse's eyes the once over.

'Nith eyeth, can I thee her earzth?'

So he picks the little fella up again, and shows him the horse's ears.

'Nith earzth, can I thee her mouf?'

Old mate is getting pretty ticked off by this point, but he picks him up again and shows him the horse's mouth.

'Nice mouf, can I see her twat?'

"What??!!" says the Cowboy.

Totally mad at this point, he grabs the Dwarf under the arms and rams his head up the horse's fanny, pulls him out and slams him on the ground.

The midget gets up, sputtering and coughing.

'Perhapth I should rephrathe that... can I thee her wun awound a widdlebit?'   

Comments

[Moira]

Aaah Lynette, that's the first time in ages that a written joke has made me totally crack up! I'm still chuckling :-)

With my LO, would you beleive that the photo I sent them will be sufficient? Not only do I get the compliment of being published, but my photography & lighting got complimented too ;-) Yay for RAW format!

Poor little bugger, don't let anyone ever say that animals can't express emotion or pain with their faces - the expression says it all. Hope he's on the mend (and maybe this will result in a little less bike chasing?)

[Melinda]

Lynette thank goodness Capone is doing well. Poor thing...I would have been a mess.
Nice shots and your visual of you tkaing the photo is priceless.

[Maja Kaučič]

You have an eye for beautiful details! I wish I could do that half as good as you! I have enjoyed looking at your photos!!

[donnapiranha]

HE needs to be sent to pet awareness seminars as probation. Good thing Capone was spared or HE would be in deep doo-doo. And I'm not talking about what YOU'D do to him...HE'D have to be watching over his shoulder for me sneakin' up on HIM.

That joke was hysterical. I need to memorize it so I can tell someone. I'm a terrible joke teller though.

[candice]

Oh man...I bet that was an awful moment. I'm so glad Capone is ok. How sad!

Love the mushroom pic. so cool.

Funny joke...you told that well!

[Lynette van Barrelo]

I'm thpeaking with a lithp now and I might jutht wun awound a widdle bit too...

[Leanne Stamatellos]

you are a cack lynette!

nice sneak peek on that LO too.

[scrappysue]

hee, hee, hee, ho, ho, ho - good joke!!!

[Kessa]

so mybeck capone not rund abit so mush these days poor bugger at lest he roll good. hahahaha!!!!!!

[Kristi Smith]

So glad Capone is okay. HE would have had to hear about it the rest of HIS life. Although, I imagine, HE will hear about it the rest of HIS life anyways.

Love your fungi photo.

[kendra]

Glad Capone is OK!!!

Beautiful photos!!!

And it's called Monkey Bread because you pick off pieces and eat it like a monkey would. : )

[keri]

LOL! love the joke.. I tried to repeat it to Jim after 1 read, but i'm not as funny....

[Janette]

AWE poor little baby! So glad Capone is fine now. I would have been a mess if that happened to Sammy. So happy to hear all is well.

Gorgeous fungi photo. I had to laugh how you were dressed to take it and how you got down to ground level. Yes I too have been on my stomach to take photos in front of my house. People driving by must think I'm nuts. BUT the worst part is getting up with a bad knee off the ground camera in hand. Yeah a funny sight I'm sure.

Looks like you are putting your macro to good work. I need to update my blog soon with some of my macro photos I've taken. They are up on my flickr. Just not enough hours in a day these days.

Funny joke. =)