You know hair - one day it looks fine; the next it's just shaggy. Pretty much the same with my dog whose hair never stops growing. So I decided to give Oscar a haircut. But first. Paul called from Starkville at 9:44 and said it was pouring rain there; and now it's 2:57 and he isn't home, so he decided to stay and/or it stopped raining. I told him not to sit out in it. The concession area is enclosed and has tables and chairs, but I don't think it will hold that many fans at once. Or, yes it will - but standing room only. It's people-to-people getting out after a game. So after he told me it was raining, I told him I was going to give O a haircut. "You can do it in the garage; there's nothing in there but the lawn mower." (He drove his gas-saving Camaro today.) Before - Little Fluffy:
He'd already been bathed so I gathered up all my equipment - clippers, brushes, scissors - and turned the garage A/C on. Then I had to move things around a bit to get the old dishwasher cabinet out for Oscar's spa table. (We had a portable DW when we moved into this house and the innards are long gone; but the casing is on rollers and makes a great little grooming table.) Oscar doesn't mind a bit. He loves to be clipped, snipped, brushed and petted over. (By me. Everyone else from the FedEx delivery man to the mail carrier to the kids on the street knows he "snaps." I don't know how to break him.) I think I could trim and snip on him for hours and he'd just sit there. Anyway, I thought, I can get this whipped out in an hour. The first time I did this it took 3 hours. Even with the A/C, I was sweating pretty bad by the time I got through, and I don't sweat. But Oscar looked so neat and trim. He knows when he's been dolled up. Two hours later I was finally done. At least I'd shaved an hour off my original time, no pun intended. Then I had to shop-vac all that hair up and put everything back where it was supposed to be.
I wanted him to mow the yard in exchange for the great haircut, but he was thinking about Beggin' Strips.
LSU beat MS State 30-26, so they played, rain or not.
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