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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Let me set the scene … I left at o’dark thirty this morning to take Stachie to a dog show about 3 hours away … got home about 2 PM. DH was not home, no note – just not home. That ticks me off to no end … especially since he called me a nickzillion times while I was gone.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I get Stachie outside and then inside, then of course everyone wants out. So, I got everybody outside (in shifts because Hoagie has a hate-hate relationship with Norm) and I changed my clothes. Since I hadn’t eaten, I started munching on cookies … Grady starts barking at me NON-STOP. I had a headache from not eating and was not in the mood for his barking, which seems to have increased exponentially as he has lost his hearing. So I reached down to put my hand around his muzzle and noticed he was odiferous, more that usual … only this time it wasn’t gas but seemed to be his ears, which I had cleaned on Thursday. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, I take him outside with the blue ear cleaner and start to clean his ears. Now he is OLD, not stupid. He decides to play “catch me if you can”. Well, since he is almost 13, I CAN catch him. I grab him and lift up an ear flap in one hand, shake the bottle of blue ear cleaner in the other hand and start to squirt it into his ear. Nothing comes out! So, I shake it again and squirt again … a dribble comes out. Now I let go of Grady, take the lid off and (here is the part you are not suppose to laugh at) I BLOW into the spout of the bottle. All of a sudden, I have purple freckles. I swear, Grady was rolling on the ground laughing his butt off! I put the lid back on, grab Grady, lift up an ear flap, shake the bottle and squirt some in his ear, massage the ear. While still holding that ear flap up, I grab the other ear flap and raise it also. I start to squirt the blue ear treatment into the second ear … JUST AS GRADY DECIDES HE IS DONE AND SHAKES VIGOROUSLY, hitting the bottle of blue ear cleaner with his nose and spraying me with the blue stuff as the top of the bottle flew off.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just then the DH comes out the door and says “what are you doing?” … good thing the bottle was empty!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sandi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Red Bay Bassets<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>