Every Night Is Trash Night For God’s Children

by Kevin Burton     The trash company changed our trash night a couple of weeks ago. That put some unwelcomed wrinkles into our routine.    Trash night used to be Sunday night/Monday morning.  Now it is Monday night/Tuesday morning.    There is just enough time between the end of the 3:30 NFL game and the …

Cat Earns His Keep By Doing Nightly Chore

by Kevin Burton    Ronnie, Lakin, call your office.    A very on-task and talented cat has gone viral on TikTok, brought to my attention by Melissa Fleur-Afshar, writing for Newsweek.    “A woman’s surprise at discovering that her cat had been routinely pulling down her kitchen window blind every evening, despite thinking her boyfriend …

“Bachelor For A Day” Changes Cat Litter!

by Kevin Burton    So, what happens at the Burton household when Jeannette is away visiting relatives? Well it’s not fodder for a screenplay, I can tell you that.    You can call it bachelor for a day if you want, but this truly is not that.  We have long since commenced functioning as a …

Be On Time Sugar Bear, Don’t Be Late

by Kevin Burton    Are you aware that there is a National Be Late For Something Day?    Well, it was two days ago, Sept. 5.  Surely then I have succeeded, having delayed recognition of it for two days?    Would have been difficult to comply on the actual day because I didn’t have much …

Tooling Around, Feeling Virtuous

by Kevin Burton    Looks as if I’ve had the definition of “tooling around” wrong all these years.    Tool around is a verb, says vocabulary.com, meaning to “ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.”    On yourdictionary.com the definition is “to drive or jaunt about, going from place …