PUPPIES!!!

I'm not much of a baby person. Oh, occasionally I'll see an adorable young person, toddling along and think, "How cute!"

But more often than not, it's some whiny brat that makes me grateful for birth control.

But the way some people get over babies--cooing and ah-ing and awing, I get with puppies.

So does my sister.

Compliments of Laurie, I present the ultimate time-suck: The Shiba Inu Puppy cam.

When I first started watching, the six puppies were hudded in a mass sleeping.

I started working on a blog post.

When I returned to the browser tab with the puppy cam, they were gone! But soon they bounded back into the frame, tussling and scrapping with each other. Then they scattered off, leaving one puppy behind. With no-one to scuffle with, he (or she) started chasing his (or her) tail--catching it and biting it!

Sooooo cute!

Ah, puppies! The economy is rocky, the wildfires are raging, the war still marches on in Iraq, but a cute puppy is the cure for almost anything.