The Chinese New Year doesn’t start until February, but heck, we like to get a jump on things. This was the Year of the Rooster and 2018 is the Year of the Dog – two of our favorite local animals. So to celebrate, here are a few riffs – or is that rrruffs? – that bow (wow) to the Year of the Dog.

  1. Politicians all over America will be marking their territory come next November.
  2. Can’t teach an old Congress new tricks.
  3. Let’s hope Mother Nature throws us a bone.
  4. It’s a margarita-drink-margarita world out there.
  5. A man’s best friend is his generator.
  6. Remember, chasing tail gets you nowhere, except the clinic or divorce court.
  7. Hopefully, the Tree Commission stops barking up the wrong tree.
  8. It’s a Conch’s life.
  9. Call off the iguanas.
  10. It’s gotta stop raining traffic and accidents.
Hays Blinckmann
Hays Blinckmann is an oil painter, author of the novel “In The Salt,” lover of all things German including husband, children and Bundesliga. She spends her free time developing a font for sarcasm, testing foreign wines and failing miserably at home cooking.