This Morning’s Acu-Rite Reading
No, that’s not “mountain graffiti” in this photo. On my way home from the store today I happened to be at a red light
when I saw a person enjoying my idea of a dream ride: cruising in a convertible with a German Shepherd as co-pilot. The photo isn’t great (I had to hurry before the light changed) but you get the idea.
Shepherds are wonderful companions. They’re intelligent, sweet, and possessed with an excellent sense of humor. Plus, they love to go anywhere you’re going. This one caught my eye because he/she was standing up and peering over the windshield until its owner told him to sit down.
Obviously it’s a slow day news-wise here at our house, evidenced by the following video so wonderfully titled After The Lawn. This is the rough cut of After The Lawn because the edited version, which was much more entertaining, had a terrible hissing noise that drowned out the sound of Buck, and I had to delete it. The program that inserted the awful hissing noise was Windows Movie Maker 2, which is already installed on my computer. I Googled it then, hoping to find a fix for the hissing, and this is the CNET review I found and totally agree with:
“Windows Movie Maker 2 is so easy a child could use it — an incredibly patient child born to filmmaker parents who didn’t mind restarting this application every few minutes.”
Does anyone know of an inexpensive video editing program they would recommend?
Just for the record, I never post any video without Buck’s verbal consent. I insist he watch videos that feature him before I post them. So far he hasn’t objected to any, nor does he jump up and down and say “Excellent!” But I’ve never seen him have “Excellent!” reaction to anything. What he does is watch the video, then shrugs his shoulders and says something like, “I don’t see anything here that will get us arrested,” and continues on his way.
I always crack up at your videos. Buck seems so uninterested, but I’m sure he’s not. Or is he? He’s such a great sport. I love it. I was wondering what he was doing and I’m so glad you explained it. I thought he was playing solitarie with a deck of cards or something. I wish it was only 80 here. It’s 60 outside, we’ve had rain the last two days, and the weather feels like fall – after skipping summer – and makes me sleepy all the time.
I’m glad you “get it” that he is a really good sport and finds humor in almost everything. He’s immune to my photographing and video taping him, probably ‘cuz I’ve been doing it for 20+ years, long before I started posting him on the Internet.
And he’s basically uninterested in everything in the world except when I come home with new dog. Then he’s suddenly interested and not in a good way. But even then he’s still a good sport, it just takes a few days until the “good sport” in him resurfaces. And he never blames the dog, he always blames me for some reason! He usually scoops up the new puppy, makes it his own, and tells it “we’re not speaking to HER today.” 
Why is it only in the 60s there?! That seems WRONG. You need to complain to the Weather Channel. I hope the temp creeps up this weekend for you.
I know! I seriously need to have a discussion with the higher power in charge of weather here. Now that I’ve heard Buck on the internet, I can totally “hear” him talking to the new puppy that way you just described. Hilarous.
He always does that to my new puppies. That’s how Stella came to hate me. I never even stood a chance. It’s like the Gift of the Magi, sort of. “You may have an adorable new puppy, but as your punishment it will not prefer you.” And to this very day Stella bites me in my sleep.
I love Buck videos. He certainly as not camera shy and seems so at ease.
It got into the high 80′s here today with the humidity at about 70%. I stayed in the house with my AC on.
I need to find a video editing program too. My computer has the same one you do so I guess I’ll skip that one.
I used that video program the other day without any problems, so maybe the hissing was a fluke? I’m going to try it again because I can’t buy a new one right now, I need to buy Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. I have Nero 7 but THAT THING is impossible to understand.
I know the humidity is bad for you right now but I’d be willing to be your skin looks better than mine. You probably have a “dewy glow” whereas I’m actually getting scared at how dry my skin is. I’ve resorted to $20 skin cream, so you know I’m desperate. I use to use CVS brand face cream with copper in it. Here, that just doesn’t cut it. For one thing there are no CVS’s.
Buck’s funny. Aw, and shy too.
i liked hearing you talk.
i liked “duded out”.
And i thought it was funny that 80 degrees is cool. When we lived in Califonia, 80 degrees was considered cool but i’m so sensitive to heat that anything over 75 kills me. My hands swell up.
Oregon is heaven to me!
The guy on the roof was sooo duded out I wanted to run and grab my camera, but he would have definitely seen me and that would have been humiliating. What if he pointed at me?! Or worse, what if he came running over and demanded my camera? I would have had to involved Buck and oh, it was just safer not to film the roof cowboy.
Oregon looks beautiful. BEAUTIFUL. I don’t think I’ve ever been there. Like I’ve said, I’m really bad at geography.
El, the fuck, OH, EL! (L the fuck O L) I loved “Duded Out” so much. I think I might just start saying that.
I was totally convinced Buck was counting pages in the phonebuck when you panned down and showed the magazine he was “breezing through” However, if you watch the video; you’ll get what I’m talking about with the Counting Pages in the phone book.
LOL i just realized I typed Phonebuck instead of phone book but I’m not changing it because it’s appropriate
I can’t believe you’ve never heard “duded out.” I won’t believe it, as a matter of fact, I refuse.
I went back and watched the video and you’re right — LOL — he did look like he was counting pages in the phonebook. It was driving me insane.
LOL. I’m surprised so many people hadn’t heard “duded out” before. I hear you talk Wendy, and I feel like you are right next door. All your terms and slang are so familiar to me so I get a kick out of other people’s responses. Oh, and I wonder if you sing at all? Your speaking voice is so pretty.
Thank you! I think my voice is…well…I have trouble listening to myself, actually. But I used to be on the radio, I was a drive-time newscaster. (Believe me, I made a concerted effort to hide my accent.) Even then I had trouble hearing myself on the radio if I pre-recorded anything. I used to change the station because I couldn’t bear it, too scared I’d drive off the road from sheer humiliation.
I’m rather shocked that “duded out” even registered with anyone. Is that a regional thing? ‘Cuz Dragonfly is from the same town as me! Maybe it’s a generational thing…Dragonfly’s a cute little spring chicken, whereas I’m…not.
Oh, and Buck is a riot. I hardly think there would ever be a dull moment with a guy like that around who has such a good sense of humor.
I do laugh all the time. Often when nobody else is.
You guys were cracking me up with your talk of roofing, wall building and roof top cowboys.
You two are a riot. Buck really cracked me up with his “wait don’t go” reaction to you almost moving on to a new filming location. He didn’t say that, but his actions did, acting like he’s not interested when in fact he’s a camera hog. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 
Too funny. Thanks. 
The problem with the “wait don’t go” reaction is that it’s actually a panic mode (which pisses me off) because he thinks I’m going to: 1. Get him involved in a fight over something I’m filming illegally, or 2: Get us arrested by filming people and posting them on the Internet. Granted, I have gotten him into more than his share of altercations with strangers over the years, but I would not post illegally on the Internet. But try telling him that.
too funny. I admit that whenever Hub says something funny these days, I wonder how it would translate. But since he’s highly suspicious of my ‘blugging’, I doubt he would cooperate. and in written form – just not funny, ya know?
I admit, I didn’t even hear the duded out and now I need to go see it again…
See, Buck’s reaction is the opposite to your husband’s because Buck figures if I’m standing in front of him I can’t get into trouble. Like I told Peter Parkour, I’ve been in situations that I caused and when they reached a level of intensity I couldn’t handle, I’ve turned it over to him. And he hates that. I think he expects if I’m loose in our new neighborhood in El Paso with a video cam, we’ll have the villagers at our door with torches and pitchforks.
“I offend myself.”
Now there’s a man who understand himself.
A wind-blown roof-top cowboy? Do you live in some type of rustic Oz?
The wind here is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced, we can get 24-hours of steady 40-50mph winds with gusts of 70mph. And it’s HOT wind. The noise drives me insane, when it starts howling it’s very unsettling. I’m not one of those “weather buffs” who likes that stuff. So yeah, basically, we are living in OZ.
oh man, you guys are hilarious!
You probably wouldn’t think so if you lived with us — you’d undoubtedly be humiliated, or driven insane — but thanks anyway!
A spring chick!? Well my oh my I am flattered. I never said I never heard Duded Out though. Did I? I just said I was going to start saying it. In fact, often times on my cowboy ranch when I was wrangling up some Dressage Lessons (that’s funny if you ride or know about riding) I told people to get duded up. So come on! Lets get duded up! Lets have a spur fight on the roof!
I also love the “Just Add Water” dog shampoo. Do you slop the shampoo on Stella and then wait for the floods and throw her out there. That’s what the shampoo bottle would imply. Just add water, or in your case, a rain storm, and you get a clean, white Stella.