Use that word in a sentence, whydontcha. We’re sitting here watching an old episode of The A-Team and someone just used that word. I believe it was Murdock.

If you’re old enough - and American enough - you probably know the show: everybody rolls their vehicle, half of them find themselves within the radii of a several large blasts or a few of them stand in a room where several machine guns spray 5,000 rounds per second and yet nobody gets hurt. Not seriously anyway.

So I’ve given the kids an assignment. Look “chicanery” up in the dictionary and use it in a sentence. I should’ve specified that it needs to be an interesting sentence. The fact that “chicanery” is in it in the first place is not good enough. And since I forgot to change most of the clocks in the house, I thought it was an hour later than it really is, I had them turn the tube off an hour earlier than I would’ve had I remembered to change one clock in particular. Not that it’s a loss for them to watch one less episode of something on dvd. Don’t get me wrong. I’m just tired and would’ve gone ahead and let them watch more. See how not being on top of things actually worked out for the good of their academic enrichment?

Anyhow, I recall my Dad using that word and I thought it was yet another made up thing he said. Now I’m questioning all the other things he said that I thought he made up. Maybe he knew more stuff than I realized back then!

Speaking of knowing stuff, I played outside today with Heidi the Dog for the first time in a long time. She don’t know nothin’ ’bout catchin’ frisbees. All the same, we got some cute pictures of her.

Awww, what a cute baby girl!!! We’re working on getting her to pick up all the sticks in the yard and drop them into the yard waste thing. Hopefully by the time she’s two, she’ll have leaf raking down pat.

This was during a rest period that lasted slightly longer than the time it takes to fumble around with the camera, aim and click the button. She’s so sweet in pictures, isn’t she?

It really almost looks like she’s giving herself a throat culture, doesn’t it? This is one of the kids working with her on jumping, in case anyone was confused. Her mother is quite the frisbee catcher so we’ve been working with her on that now and then for fun and exercise. Ideally I’d like to do therapy dog training with her but I haven’t looked into how to go about that yet. I s’pose I should before she gets too much older. She’s about 5.5 months old.

Heidi is cute but here is The World’s Greatest Dog

The Chicanery Sentences are coming in just now. Let’s see:

Me: I heard the world “chicanery” on a dvd today. Heh heh. Kidding. As hard as we tried to befriend the Capones, we finally gave up because we didn’t want to be involved in their chicanery.

Homer: I used chicanery to get to watch the radio or is it the tv? He’s such a goofball.*rolling my eyes*

Dub: I used chicanery to make My fortune in Silver and Gold! Chicanery is how I conned President Washinton into giving Me 10 cavalry brigades!