This Is Side One

We probably border on those crazy type dog people.  Our dogs have clothes and in our defense, they even picked them out at the store and pull them out of the clean clothes basket to wear them again.  We feed extra special diets and know doggy cpr and spend more time at the dog park than we do regular parks.  We love dogs.  99.9% of all dogs in fact.  But not Schnauzers.

In our building, there’s around 40 units and roughly 20 dogs.  Downtown people are dog people and it’s nice to be in an area where people pick up after their pets, exercise them and don’t leave them chained to a house in the backyard for all time and eternity.  But on the 6th floor lives Michael Jackson and Fritz.  They are two little grey Schnauzers and we’re apparently on the same pea schedule.  No matter how either “dog parent” tries to miss the other by going early or later, it seems we’re always in the same place at the same time.  It doesn’t matter if we’re outside on a walk, down by the river or in the doggy area on the parking garage roof.  There’s always there.

Now, the breed in general, aside from having an annoying bark and extra protective side, has really cool lines and facial fur.  Not only do they have Burt Renyolds eyebrows, but they have a Tom Selleck mustache and what’s better than that?  Nothing… and everything.

The owner never leashes her dogs, they’re always running wild and crazy and to be quite frank, they’re jerks.  Poor Wilbur is always mid poo when sir Michael Jackson is suddenly up in his grill.  Lola does her best to be civil each time we run into them, but since they’re never leashed, it always ends in someone trying to give her the business and since she’s not exactly fond of that, the result is angry-wolf-teeth Lola and someone starts to cry (usually me).

I know, I know, it’s all about the owner and the training, but seriously, I’ve never met a Schnauzer I liked and given their demeanor every time I meet a new one, I don’t think that opinion will be changing easily.

And in other news, we need to have kids so dog stories become less and less frequent.

*Sarah Rae

(Image: killthebird)

Several months back when the weather was nice and we spent a good portion of our day walking our dogs along the sunny shores of the Missouri River, we thought blogging was a good idea.  We made our first entry and then promptly forgot about our plans to conquer the internet with our sassy stories and daily thoughts on life.

The holidays happened, life happened, contracts were signed, new furniture was bought.  Is that an excuse to leave this place sad and alone, waiting for viewers to one day discover one lone post?  We hope this spot will one day be a hole in technology where others find comfort and solace that someone else knows what life is really like.  How dirty and messy it can really be and that’s not just pertaining to DIY projects and lack of house cleaning.

Here’s to a second chance and a better go at things.

This is the blog of Zach and Sarah Trover.  We’re co-blogging, for reasons that will come in another post as will proper introductions.  Zach and I will need to figure out a way to denounce which one of us is talking.  Although 9/10 times, we’ll be talking about the other person in our post and we’d like to think our viewing audience is smart enough to pick up on that.  I’m sure we’ll figure out icons or pictures as we go further but to start out we wanted to talk about the title of our blog.

This Is Side One

It sucks to type out.  Trust us we know, so bookmark it now, because next time you have to type www. thisissideone, your brain will come to a complete hault and ask you, did you really want to type “isissi” all together.  We tried to come up with a less complicated blog title, but to be honest, it just suits us and so we kept it.

So, you’ve been warned, bookmark it, spread the word, because you need to hear what we have to say.  Holy crap that’s egotistical, who says that, who claims to be that important?  We do.  Not really, but our Moms think we’re neat and that still counts for something right?  America’s going back to it’s roots and farms and families are cool again right?  Right.