Saving The World One Potato Chip At A Time

Well it's been another exciting couple of weeks over here in Texas! This is going to sound really clichéd for an Englishman to say but we've had all sorts of crazy weather here!

We've had hot sunny days, cold days and I don't just mean cold for Texas, it's been cold like England cold! And we've had some crazy storms. The storms have been fun though! Being from England the storms I'm used to usually just consist of rain and maybe one clap of thunder, but over here a storm is a LOT of heavy rain, lots of thunder and lots of lightning! So it makes for great storm watching, the only downside really is because we live in the middle of nowhere, the power has a habit of going out when we have a storm which means I have to do things like talk...to the wife!

Bella The Dog

Still there was one good thing about the big 'ol storm we had. We gained a dog out of it! During the storm we obviously had some very heavy rain and Heather's Grandma had opened the front door just to look out and see what was going on outside. While she was out there this little dog came walking up to the front door looking all wet and making pathetic sounding whimpering noises so we brought her inside and dried her off because she was absolutely soaking wet and we gave her some food as she looked quite skinny. We didn't know who she belonged to so we went to the local post office and asked whether anybody had lost a dog because she's clearly a well looked after dog – she has a shiny coat and well groomed claws, she has stinky dog breath but that can be easily rectified – we also took her to the vet to see if she was chipped but she wasn't so she's ours now.

She's part Dachshund which is cool so she's only a little dog but she's such a sweet dog who just wants attention all the time, we named her Bella as she just looks like a Bella. We don't know how old she is but she can't be much older than about 3 or 4. We're going to take her to the vet next week and get her shots done and make sure she's in good health.

It's funny though because before we moved here we were talking about getting a dog at some point because we've always wanted a dog but could never have one in England because we lived in a flat. However, I always wanted a slightly bigger dog as I've never really been a fan of little ankle biter dogs but Bella has changed that and I love her!

I Think She Had Just Woken Up

One other really funny thing that happened this week was something Cayden said. Just before he was about to go to bed he had asked us whether he could have some chips (crisps) for a snack as he had a packet which he had started earlier but never finished. But as he had just brushed his teeth, Heather and I obviously both said no which was meant with the usual moaning that you would expect from a child, but anyway he got over it and walked away and started playing with Dexter in the kitchen whilst we were sat watching TV. Anyway after a few minutes Cayden walked in chewing and crunching on something and he stood right in front of us and said

“Did you know that if you don't eat chips they go bad?”

to which we both replied

“Yes, why?”

“Well I had to eat the chips so that they wouldn't go bad and have to be thrown away”

What can you say to that?? The little brat had eaten the rest of the chips as he didn't want them to go off and be thrown away! I liked the way he was thinking though, very clever!

I guess he was saving the world one potato chip at a time.