On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> >Oh, and for Jim, the shoelace-tying is getting just a little more
> >interesting each week. If I could stand slip-on shoes better than I
> >can, I'd want to switch to those. And of course it gets much more
> interesting when a dog is trying to get me to move faster, the way
> >Briana was after me this morning. (Miranda at least will back off a
> >foot if I ask her to, if she isn't already sitting in her bed with
> >her nose a few inches from the toe of the shoe I'm trying to tie; I
> >keep worrying I'm going to whap her when I bring my foot down one of
> >these days.... Briana is a good illustration of "in-your-face".)
>
> Thanks for the update! Don't worry about the dog's nose being at the
> top of your shoes for too much longer; eventually, you'll wind up with
> your laces as close to the side as possible, rather than trying to go
> "over-the-top" as it were. :)
It's not the TOP of the shoe, it's the TOE -- as in, I might kick the poor
thing in the head. Well, the one more likely to be whapped is Miranda,
who has the thicker skull of the two. (And she's more likely to inflict
damage on me with her skull than the other one is.)
I think that when it gets more difficult to tie shoes sitting on the edge
of the bed, I'm going to have to break out the folding chair every morning
for shoe-tying.
Julia
