Tired of winter
Jan. 24th, 2011 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoCould we please have some warmer temperatures? I'm not even asking for sunlight, mind, just not having to shiver would be nice.
Dog class was tonight, after being cancelled last week due to bad weather. Red is doing quite well at his basics. They introduced figure eights tonight (easy) and the boardwalk (harder.) He had some difficulty with walking the plank, which is only about ten inches wide. His normal stride has a wider wheelbase than that. By the third time, though, he almost made it through without stepping off the edge. The board is only two inches above the floor, so there is little risk of injury, though some smaller dogs seemed terrified by it.
Interesting note for those who continue to insist that "the founding fathers never would have approved of socialized medicine or forcing citizens to buy health insurance." A law passed by Congress and signed by John Adams in 1798 did just that for sailors employed by private ship owners. Details are here. Since John Adams was one of those founding fathers, and many more of them were in fact members of Congress at the time, I'd agree that this particular argument against health care reform is as bogus as, well, a three dollar bill.
Dog class was tonight, after being cancelled last week due to bad weather. Red is doing quite well at his basics. They introduced figure eights tonight (easy) and the boardwalk (harder.) He had some difficulty with walking the plank, which is only about ten inches wide. His normal stride has a wider wheelbase than that. By the third time, though, he almost made it through without stepping off the edge. The board is only two inches above the floor, so there is little risk of injury, though some smaller dogs seemed terrified by it.
Interesting note for those who continue to insist that "the founding fathers never would have approved of socialized medicine or forcing citizens to buy health insurance." A law passed by Congress and signed by John Adams in 1798 did just that for sailors employed by private ship owners. Details are here. Since John Adams was one of those founding fathers, and many more of them were in fact members of Congress at the time, I'd agree that this particular argument against health care reform is as bogus as, well, a three dollar bill.
