Monday, September 06, 2004

Pipes, Feeders, Pots, Patience and Love

My sweet and pretty and happy and totally loving golden retriever... HAS TOTALLY WREAKED HAVOC this Labor Day weekend.

While I've been indoors, vacuuming up enough dog hair to create toupees for a thousand balding goldens, she has...

  1. Broken a hose bibb... the kind that comes up from a pipe in the ground and requires a plumber, at holiday rates, to dig and cap... (not to mention the fright that my next water bill promises)... while flushing a squirrel from a landscape bed.
  2. Broken a (special order, hard to find) craftsman style bronze and glass bird feeder... while chasing a squirrel across the yard.
  3. Broken a clay pot that my grandmother gave me 25 years ago, when I got my first apartment, along with one of her prized plants (still living... just not in its home of the last 25 years)... chasing a (STUPID!) cat that ventured into our back yard.

I love that girl. I do. But, I swear, she tries my patience... never my love and devotion, but definitely my patience!

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