Yesterday was another beautiful day in paradise. Bob cranked up the mower and headed for lawns in need of cutting and I decided to take advantage of the sweet breeze and fresh air by grooming Maggie. She is always cooperative (thanks to Dr. Bach's Rescue Remedy drops) and I'm getting faster, as well. She always seems slightly mortified by the indignity of the bath part, but it has to feel good when all is said and done. Her white is now bright and beautiful for her next appearance with the Furry Friends on this coming Wednesday.
We are always surprised at her lack of fleas. When we lived near the beach, oh my, were fleas an issue then. We almost lost our Cocker, Muffy, and actually friends of ours did in fact lose a dog to fleas. They had sprayed the dog run and bathed and dipped their dog before they left on a two week vacation. The neighbor boy was feeding and watering Rascal but certainly couldn't be blamed for the onslaught. The fleas drained the poor thing of all it's blood. When our Muffy started staggering we rushed him to the vet where she revealed hundreds of fleas with two sprays of insecticide. We were horrified! The next stop was to buy clippers and then shave the poor little thing. We were just in the nick of time. He was pitch black and we had never lived at the beach before. Both issues almost cost Muffy his life.
The whole grooming episode is always tiring for both of us girls and mowing, while he loves it, wears out the Mister, as well. I guess it makes sense that since we are on the subject of bugs, we decided to rest a while and watch "Them." Of course, now it is so corny and silly, but when I first saw it I was so scared that my mom was sorry she said I could go to the show to see such an awful movie.
It must have been what the industry called a "contract" movie. One that has every actor on contract with the studio in it. Almost every single face in the entire movie was familiar. There were maybe 50 actors in the whole movie, which was pretty funny. Now they are made with a cast of thousands. Some of the more famous stars were: James Whitmore, Edmund Greene, James Arness and even Fess Parker, just before he became Davey Crockett, had a small bit part.
Even though the giant ants were under Los Angeles in the sewers. There were no crowds and only a handful of people saved the world from the infestation. It was an hour and a half well spent. Now we are going to rent "The Blob!" Ah, the miracle of Netflix!
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