Tuesday, April 8, 2008

My crazy weekend

Anybody want to buy a couple of dogs? Friday night I let them out one last time to go to the bathroom...when I called them to come in only Rocky came. I called and called to Sadie but she didn't come. So about 10:30 I bundled up and got a flashlight and went strolling through the pastures with Rocky telling him to take me to her. I sometimes like to think he is as smart as Lassie. There was a dog barking a little ways off so I started in that direction thinking Sadie may be making it bark. The closer I got the more it sounded like Sadie barking, and sure enough it was. She was trapped in a chain link fence. So I found the gate and let her out. Boy was she excited to see me! So I got the dogs home just before 11. We went to bed and Rocky was restless all night. Finally at 5:40 he was whining like crazy so I got up and let him out and he only made it up to the kitchen and pooped in the middle of the floor. So I cleaned it up and let them out and he took off. I let him go and went back to bed. So at 7:30 he jumped on the door so I got up and let him in. I went back to bed and got up later and started laundry. Then around 11 am I let them out and a few minutes later I went to check on them and they were nowhere to be found. I kept checking for them and by 2 pm I started to get worried. I was suppose to go into town to meet Shawn so I called him to let him know I couldn't find the dogs. I went trekking through the pastures again and didn't see them. By 3 pm he came out to help me and we drove the near-by neighborhoods and didn't see any sign of them. And by the way, it was a blizzard outside. So visibility was not good at all. I thought there was no way those dogs are out there in that weather. So I called the Humane Society and Animal Control and they hadn't heard anything but took down my info in case they did. So at 4 pm I got back in the car and went door-to-door to the row of houses next to us. Everyone was so nice, but noone had seen them. I left my name and number with them in case they did. When I got done with the last house I went around the block and there they were running across the street right in front of me!!! I honked my horn at them and they stopped and looked. I opened the door and hollered at them and they came running to me. They were a mess! They were soaking wet and downtrodden. The direction they were going was back towards the house, but who knows if that's what they were doing. I like to think so because they didn't seem too happy. I started bawling and called Shawn. When I told him I found them he asked me if they were dead because I was crying so hard. I don't know why...stupid dogs. So we locked them up in the kennel and went to our bbq with Shawn's friends and watched the game. The Tarheels looked about as lost as my dogs on the court those first few minutes! Ha!
We had the biggest flakes I'd seen in a long time falling last night. We got almost a foot of the heavy, wet stuff. Today turned into a nice day, but I think we're suppose to get more snow tonight. Yeah.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Those naughty mangy mutts!! Kristin would have felt the same way as you. :) So how are things up there overall? You are gonna have to send us photos!! Things are same old same old here... I am bummed cause I have to work this weekend and cannot go to the gun show :(
Have you found some great chow-down places yet?

Ex-smelltor