Dogs do not understand TV. They hear a doorbell, a phone ring, or \u2013 god help us \u2013 a dog barking, and it\u2019s all HERE AND NOW by Lionel Ritchie and we are in the MOMENT and we are REACTING and there is turf that needs defending. I had the misfortune of having the television on as background noise while I was on the computer last night, and \u201cCradle 2 the Grave\u201d was on, high-quality stuff, folks. DMX, Jet Li & Tom Arnold, seriously \u2013 how could one go wrong? Anyway, I\u2019m really not watching it because we tried to watch it before and couldn\u2019t \u2013 and that makes it good background tv, I don\u2019t even feel compelled to watch, really. But heaven help us all, there\u2019s some scene with some pissed-off Dobermans, and that got Suzy & Polly ALL kinds of riled up. Heads up, ears up, alarm barking\/burfing, respectively. I kept saying \u201cTEE VEE\u201d \u201cIT\u2019S OK\u201d to them but they don\u2019t know what the hell TEE VEE is, they just know they\u2019re hearing dogs barking and it sounds like something we need to be worried about! We were on Orange Alert for half an hour as a result. Plus, when James is gone, I think Suzy gets more protective. Or else that\u2019s wishful thinking on my part, but she does have that guard dog in her.<\/p>\n
This morning, I thought I was getting up at the Crack of Dawn, only to be disillusioned by the cable box, which is smart enough to understand Daylight Savings Time. Anyway, I let the dogs out the back, they did their thang, and then we went back through the house to the front door & I let Polly out to get the paper. Polly, as a lab, loves to retrieve, almost more so than Suzy. She\u2019s more competitive, I think. (Hm. Where\u2019d she learn THAT?) She Love Love LOVES to get the paper in the morning. So off she went. Suddenly, Suzy broke & ran out to try to get the paper as well, because the Sunday paper is big, and it\u2019s harder for li\u2019l P to get it in her mouth. We had a Retriever Standoff over the paper, and it\u2019s hard to command authority when you\u2019re laughing as hard as I was. Suzy wouldn\u2019t come, Polly was lookin\u2019 all Rhodesian Ridgeback, with her ruff up from her neck to her butt, and then? Suzy trotted off! Polly won! I was amazed.<\/p>\n
The funniest thing we\u2019ve had Polly retrieve have been the plastic pots that blew away from the side of the garage all over the front yard. They\u2019re easy to pick up \u2013 but they obstruct her vision once they\u2019re in her mouth. So she does this drunken-weave dance as she comes back to you, trying to see where she\u2019s going, bobbing her head all over the place and from side to side. It doesn\u2019t quite make sense in her brain, that as long as she has it firmly in her mouth, no matter where she moves her head, she still will have a big round blind spot \u2013 but the desire to bring it back is far stronger than the disconnect, and she does it with such enthusiasm, it\u2019s touching and hilarious all at once.<\/p>\n
On the non-dog front: My cold\u2019s getting a little better \u2013 god, I would love to have this week off as well, but I\u2019m also really charged up about starting my new job. A little knitting tease \u2013 there\u2019s a finished sweater in the House o\u2019 Jen! I\u2019m so glad it\u2019s done. I can\u2019t say I love it to the moon at this point, but it\u2019s still pretty fun & it will probably look better if I put it on over real clothes, and not pajamas. Yes, I\u2019m talking about the FOLLY. I will get a picture up in the next day or two \u2013 because I think I might be the first person in the universe besides the designer, to actually finish this sweater. I\u2019m gonna act like I am, anyway. This calls for a tiara! And I’m still planning on wearing this sweater, even if it’s just in Abbey’s basement with the a\/c on full blast – Kim’s gonna wear her wool sweater, and Abbey will wear her wool Einstein, and we’ll pretend it’s December and snowing outside. Delusions and grandeur go together like pie & ice cream! Mmmmm. pie.<\/p>\n
Take care, I-peeps. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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