On a very different note:

We have a new "boarder" at the "Inn". This old timer showed up a week and a half ago. He won't leave. His breath is horrible. He hadn't had a bath in years, maybe. He has slept on the porch, on the sofas or chairs, or really wherever he wants to. He urinates wherever he wants. He eats anything "good" that he sees. He's old. He smells bad. He's in the way. He won't leave.
     He's deaf. Or maybe he wants us to think he's deaf so that he can ignore our pleas for courtesy.
     When the Greensboro group left Joan Evans gave a check of $150 to take him to the doc.      Upon arriving he walked very slowly and seemed very sensitive in the hip area.
     I immediately started giving him ambrotose with food of all kinds. Maybe it was real food, ambrotose, rest, or just being in an environment where people sincerely pretend to care that has brought him around. He's walking better and actually has been running a bit which he didn't do when he arrived.
     He still pretends to be deaf and his breath is no better. Forget about the burping.
     He's a con artist. Look at him.

     Because he's deaf, his esp powers are very strong. We wondered at first what Homer might be thinking being deaf and a world traveler like he is. Pretty soon we were reading his mind. When he wants food he looks really cute and forlorn. When he's full, he grins.

     He didn't have a bark or growl at all when he arrived. He then gave us one bark or beagle type wail. This morning he gave me two.

    I can't say that the ambrotose has helped more than good care otherwise but today he ran for a longer distance than in the week or so he's been here. I did give him scrambled eggs (his favorite) this morning. He was so appreciative. He asked me to walk with him. He was running until he looked back and saw that I was walking. He then says, "Smell this". I smelled it but didn't get anything out of it. He then walked over to a bush and told me to pee on it and he showed me how he did it. So I humored him. He then just walks a bit further and again says "Urinate here too". So I urinate there. He just wants me to smell and urinate. He wants to show me "his world". Frankly, I enjoy the urinating but I don't like the smelling.