Cue the dogs.
Enter dogs.
Add neighborhood fireworks that went on until about 11:30 last night.
Make one dog growl and bark at the boomy ones.
Make the other one tremble in fear of the whistley ones.
Add nighttime temperatures of 80 degrees.
Slip in the script a peri-menopausal woman with persistant and annoying hot flashes.
Now, see if anyone gets to go to sleep.
Sounds like the makings of a Marx Brothers film.
Jo Jo was on and off the bed at least four times. He can't actually jump onto our bed as it is a rather high four poster. So each time he would put his front paws up next to me, being the compassionate person I am, I would get up and hoist him onto the bed. After a while though he would get too warm and jump down. Then another firework would make him nervous and here came the paws. ( I deFY you to ignore sweet little white paws wiggling next to your nose, attached to a frightened doggie) So hoist I did. Of course laying quietly at the foot of the bed was out of the question for Jo Jo. He had designs on other regions.
I made the interesting discovery that I cannot possibly go to sleep with a Sheltie sitting on my head, I don't care how cute he is.
I finally gave it up and went to the couch.
The dogs followed.
But at least they both stayed on the floor. And by this time, the fireworks were subsiding.
I think there was sleepage of some kind from midnight until 4 AM, whereupon the cat decided to start yowling about being let out of his utility room bedsit. RIGHT NOW thank you very much.
Hub Man scurried off to work at 5 AM and I TRIED to go back to sleep.
No way Jose'. (Mostly due to said persistant and annoying hot flashes)
So the dogs and I got up and went for a romp around the school soccer field and then I brought them home and went for a bike ride on my own. All before the sun came up.
Oh yeah, and Sunny had to get a half bath with soap and the garden hose when we got home because she found some odiferous dead animal to have a quick roll in.
It's only 8:30 in the morning,
And I'm ready for a nap.
How was YOUR Fourth of July?
:-)
Enter dogs.
Add neighborhood fireworks that went on until about 11:30 last night.
Make one dog growl and bark at the boomy ones.
Make the other one tremble in fear of the whistley ones.
Add nighttime temperatures of 80 degrees.
Slip in the script a peri-menopausal woman with persistant and annoying hot flashes.
Now, see if anyone gets to go to sleep.
Sounds like the makings of a Marx Brothers film.
Jo Jo was on and off the bed at least four times. He can't actually jump onto our bed as it is a rather high four poster. So each time he would put his front paws up next to me, being the compassionate person I am, I would get up and hoist him onto the bed. After a while though he would get too warm and jump down. Then another firework would make him nervous and here came the paws. ( I deFY you to ignore sweet little white paws wiggling next to your nose, attached to a frightened doggie) So hoist I did. Of course laying quietly at the foot of the bed was out of the question for Jo Jo. He had designs on other regions.
I made the interesting discovery that I cannot possibly go to sleep with a Sheltie sitting on my head, I don't care how cute he is.
I finally gave it up and went to the couch.
The dogs followed.
But at least they both stayed on the floor. And by this time, the fireworks were subsiding.
I think there was sleepage of some kind from midnight until 4 AM, whereupon the cat decided to start yowling about being let out of his utility room bedsit. RIGHT NOW thank you very much.
Hub Man scurried off to work at 5 AM and I TRIED to go back to sleep.
No way Jose'. (Mostly due to said persistant and annoying hot flashes)
So the dogs and I got up and went for a romp around the school soccer field and then I brought them home and went for a bike ride on my own. All before the sun came up.
Oh yeah, and Sunny had to get a half bath with soap and the garden hose when we got home because she found some odiferous dead animal to have a quick roll in.
It's only 8:30 in the morning,
And I'm ready for a nap.
How was YOUR Fourth of July?
:-)