Laughter...The Best Medicine Ever

If you've never watched this show, you should...and sooner than later. It's a joy to watch.

I think it's on season five by now, but  I will re watch any episode which happens to come on. The first couple of seasons were all shot on location in Atlanta, one of the first things which piqued my interest after my nephew turned me on to the magic of Michael Carbonaro.

Life's been going pretty great for us after a pretty long struggle, which turned out to be totally worth every year of it.

Losing fourteen year old Sir Charles was a a blow...

Then we had a scare with Ham, also almost Charlie's age.

He obviously just had a bug which luckily went away within twenty four hours, but was preparation for what will ultimately happen, sooner than later.

Ziggy needed some (hopefully) fatty tumors removed and we finally took care of them, unfortunately later than sooner.

His was a rocky recovery at first but almost three grand later, the boy is less than two weeks away from being once again a care free idiot chasing anything that is stupid enough to wander into our back yard after we've lived here for almost two years with our dogs.

So yesterday (my day off) I washed Zig's wound out with saline, squirted hydrogen peroxide on it, waited thirty seconds, applied the ointment he thinks is Cool Whip but luckily can't lick off anymore with his 'bumper' on and watched him bounce and scrub around, unable to get to that one spot he wanted to get to but for the life of him couldn't figure out how to.

 Inflatable no bite collars?? Best thing ever invented.

  The smaller (also) cheaper one worked fine until the shock of it being around his neck wore off and he figured out how to turn it  by scratching, around to the opening just big enough to get to that sweet one spot he so desperately wanted to lick but we so desperately wanted him not to lick.

Then ya gotta bite the bullet and pay for a big boy collar which while unfortunately comes with a big boy price tag, gets the job done...much sooner than later, which in the end saves you future vet visits.

So we still have go through go the cleansing and medicating three times a day...no fun for anyone.  Plus I still have to shove a pill down his throat once a day, now using tough love and my index finger as opposed to begging him with treat covered pills,  always taking three or four tries... if I'm lucky.

I  have gotten pretty good at it.
And he is healing nicely.

Anyhoo...

Back to me!

I was watching The Carbonaro Effect with Ziggy  beside me on the couch, after pushing his pill halfway down his throat, giving him some love to make up for my 'tough' love on my day off.

The episode was a newer one, shot in Chicago. It was in a store kinda like a "Scientific Hobby Lobby". Michael Carbonaro played the part of a cashier, unknown to people who came to the counter.

As usual, in the episode he amazes people with magic tricks while explaining how he is doing something newly discovered by technology and easily gets people to believe and be astounded by his  ingeniousity and seemingly (kinda) plausible explanations.


Basically, the dude's full of crap but an excellent slight of hand artist with a personality so nice he makes it hard not to believe him, and most of the time always does.

It's great television and if you haven't watched his show, you should.

So Ziggy and I watched a big ole burly younger dude wander into a scientific hobby store just to look around. Michael Carbornaro quickly reeled him in with a jar of marbles which he soon warmed one up in, in  his hands and blew the marble into the shape of a test tube, because it was a new, blow able glass product just on the market.

The guy believed him, and was astounded.

Trust me, you would be too.

The guy is awesome at what he does, highly entertaining and one of my favorite 'go to'  smiles in my every day life.


The guy in the video?

My favorite "Dude" of all time.

It was like a Bill and Ted's  Excellent Adventure moment...extremely memorable...for decades.



The line which got me, made me laugh for days.

Still does.


 He was all alone after being blown away by something he was having a hard time wrapping his head around. Carbonaro left the room with some lame excuse and my man said, to no one in particular,  "I gotta get out more or at least do some puzzles."


Till next time, COTTON


#doapuzzle