Collar and First Date

Well, Mom's not too happy with me right now. I done went and lost the new collar she bought me the other week. So now she has to get me another one again. She doesn't know if I'm somehow getting caught on something and that's how I'm losing it, or if someone might be taking it off me. Of course, I can't really tell her, now can I?

And Mom had her first date yesterday with the guy that asked her out. She says it was really nice. Without going into too much detail, they had lunch at seafood restaurant and talked and got to learn some things about each other. She says he seems like a really nice guy and a bit of a gentleman, and she rather likes him so far. Some of what she learned about him: he’s Irish; is about 6 years older than her; he’s divorced, with a couple of grown kids; and they seem to like a few of the same things (rock and classical music, and books, for example). She says she thinks they hit it off fairly well, and he really seems to have an interest in her. He wants to go out again, possibly this weekend, and has something in mind already for it (a meal at another restaurant and a walk along the beach, I believe). I hope it works out for her.