Pun Intended

About 6 or 8 years ago, Fred hurt his back picking up a box of copy paper. He was off work for 6 weeks and then took a daily medication unt...

Music XI

Sigred has tried this trick (see after the quote) in other ways, a number of times, with no change in the outcome. Insanity:  doing the same...

Bossy Says: "Dios Mio!"

Of An Age

When Sigred was young with a young family, friends of hers picked up a stray cat on the street. They were going to keep him themselves but ...

Barbecued Cheese

Sigred & Fred had dropped themselves into another culture. Over the course of 2 or 4 years they had managed to offend several people (...

Might as Well be Hanged for a Sheep as a Lamb

  After the Beginning She was walking through an artisan display of perhaps 100 stalls and, unfortunately passed by two of her ex-friends a...

Trolls

Via:  Dangling on a Hook This Is It ?  I Can St art Now ?   Hosted by kiwi6.com file hosting . Download mp3 - Free File Hosting . War...

Princess is Confused Again

Bossy was in the kitchen tidying up in the morning.  She was emptying the dish rack and putting the plates away and the silverware into the ...

I Pick Up Glass

Via:  Dangling on a Hook

The Building of a Park

Just about every day, Fred & Princess go to our neighbourhood park for a romp.  Fred sits on a bench and benignly watches while Princess...

Dream

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Garfunkel

Garfunkel came to live with us for a time when h/is/er "parents" were out-of-country and they needed a snail sitter.  Upon arrival...

Stuff Disease

We were driving in a car with some people we know (a fairly unusual occurrence as at that time we didn't own a car  and usually travelle...

Jerry Vilhotti

We first met Jerry when in 2004 he sent us a random story to be placed on Dangling on a Hook . It's been quite a few years now and sti...

The Things We Remember

The Middle We've been ExPats now for more than 3-1/2 years.  Brian's been back to Canada once to attend the funeral of his brother b...

Light the Way

Last year on our blog Lest We Forget we talked about one of the most important Ecuadorian traditions for ringing in the New Year; the makin...