Last night I went to get into bed to go to sleep. Blanche, my miniature schnauzer, was already stretched out and ready for the last bit of TV before we were off to slumberland. I have to tell you that Blanche and I sleep in a Cal King bed which is really huge and somehow I only get about two and a half feet of it and my fifteen pound dog seems to hog all the rest.

Anyway, being a senior I have aches and pains so I sleep with a heavy duty heating pad which I usually turn on before I go and get ready for bed. For some reason I forgot to turn it on. So I get into bed, try and arrange Blanche so I will have a bit more space and turn on the TV. I turned on the heating pad and a flame flew out of it and a popping noise and all the electricity in the house turned off.

No fire, thank goodness, but I had to go outside at 2:00am to go trip the breakers. Upon my return and the return of my electricity I discovered that Blanche had chewed through the the heating pad cord and severed it. Have you any idea how grateful I was that the heating pad was not turned on when she decided to have a snack? Let’s put it this way….if it was on I would no longer be complaining about the bed hog as there would no longer be a Blanche!

So what am I getting at? Timing!! Timing is everything. The biz in a boxx series starts teaching kids as young as 7 the fundamentals of becoming an entrepreneur. Too young you say? No, not too young. It is amazing what children are capable of learning at a young age. Their brains are like sponges. The earlier children learn basic skill sets the easier it will be for them to expand their capabilities with confidence as they get older.

So, as of this writing Blanche is still intact, and my aches and pains have increased because the bed hog ate my heating pad. And, hopefully some day a young entrepreneur will invent an electric cord that is chew proof.

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