Ray's Thought for the Day - Adapting to Keep Yourself Entertained

Yepper, adapting to situations is a big positive if you're queued or cued up in a line at a vendors. Today, after we secured our delicious cinnamon buns and had them safely tucked away, Crumby and me found ourselves in line at the Pure Luck Goat Farm stall. I'm not sure why we were in that line up, but we were.

Lined up right ahead of us was a big, black, wooly, overweight dog, a collie of sorts, with a long collie nose. This particular lady collie was working at keeping herself entertained, adapting to the situation, as it were. For right under the lady collie's long nose was a plastic pail wherein all the patrons of the Pure Luck Goat Farm were wont to dispose of the little plastic cups containing free samples of the vended goat dairy products.

So this lady collie was busy. She gingerly reached over into the pail, using her long nose to great and dextrous advantage, and removed a plastic sample cup. Then she sat that cup on the ground and gave the insides a good going over with her tongue. That cup was soon licked clean. And with a stiff wind blowing out of the northeast, the sample cup blew off to become what is known in these parts as, litter. The lady collie nosed out another sample cup. Lickety split, she licked it out and the wind disposed of that evidence, too. And another, and yet another sample cup was likewise disposed of in like manner.

These antics of the big fat lady collie are the very type antics that are liable to reduce Crumby and me to hysterics. So we were smiling and chortling happily by the time the lady human supervising the lady collie noticed that her dog was getting into the trash. Plus it was our turn to make a purchase almost. But neither one of us could remember why we were in the Pure Luck Goat Farm line up. Off we went then, on the long trek back to the CB, happily looking forward to our upcoming gustatory encounter with our delicious cinnamon buns.