T-Minus 5 Days, And Counting...
It is just past midnight, so I guess early Tuesday morning. My wife and I will board our flight midday Sunday but I've still so much to do before then. Buy gifts for my wife's family and our friends. Wanna buy some new shoes. Get all my cold weather clothes dusted off. And a thousand other tasks I have not yet realized I need to do.
I tossed and turned all last night thinking about buttressing the gate in our backyard. I didn't get a wink of sleep actually. You see, we are keeping our dogs at the house and our neighbors will look in on them and feed them. We have taken care of dogs for a few of our neighbors when they have been away on vacation... just the kind of neighborhood we live in.
Our older dog Charlie will stay in the house and we'll leave the doggie door open. The two puppies, Genie and Sam, will stay in the backyard on the east side of the house and sleep in the garage. That way they can run around as much as they want & not dismantle the house while we are away. But Genie is a climber and we have spent many an hour chasing her down after she has miraculously escaped from our yard.
Just last weekend they both got out and we still haven't a clue how! After doing yard work my wife and I came inside, started to relax then we looked over and asked each other, "Where are Genie and Sam?!" Their usual rumblings around the house were conspicuously absent. Lo and behold, they were gone. Once it was established they were gone we jumped in our respective cars and went searching for them.
Turns out they got tired of their little adventure and came home all on their own just as I was finishing my second sweep of the surrounding neighborhoods! Distressing that they still like to get loose but reassuring that they chose of their own accord to make their way back home. One has to eat after all!
But everything will be fine. I will try to replace the lock on the eastern gate and that should be that.
I tossed and turned all last night thinking about buttressing the gate in our backyard. I didn't get a wink of sleep actually. You see, we are keeping our dogs at the house and our neighbors will look in on them and feed them. We have taken care of dogs for a few of our neighbors when they have been away on vacation... just the kind of neighborhood we live in.
Our older dog Charlie will stay in the house and we'll leave the doggie door open. The two puppies, Genie and Sam, will stay in the backyard on the east side of the house and sleep in the garage. That way they can run around as much as they want & not dismantle the house while we are away. But Genie is a climber and we have spent many an hour chasing her down after she has miraculously escaped from our yard.
Just last weekend they both got out and we still haven't a clue how! After doing yard work my wife and I came inside, started to relax then we looked over and asked each other, "Where are Genie and Sam?!" Their usual rumblings around the house were conspicuously absent. Lo and behold, they were gone. Once it was established they were gone we jumped in our respective cars and went searching for them.
Turns out they got tired of their little adventure and came home all on their own just as I was finishing my second sweep of the surrounding neighborhoods! Distressing that they still like to get loose but reassuring that they chose of their own accord to make their way back home. One has to eat after all!
But everything will be fine. I will try to replace the lock on the eastern gate and that should be that.
posted by Aaron at 8:03 AM
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