Sunday, October 24, 2010

writing to enlighten this morning

it is gross outside....I know, I know. It's October 24th and I live in Camas. It was inevitable, but it seems the fall/winter weather has finally overtaken us. Even worse, it's one of those mornings where an hour after you get up the weather is darker, blustery-er, and more spirit dampening. Hummph.

Although, by all rights I should not complain. The first three weeks of October were a fantastic gift, possibly mother nature attempting to make up for our summer that wasn't a summer.

So, here's my story. This morning about 5:30, the annoying girl dog decides that since I won't let her on the bed and under the covers, what she really MUST do is to go outside. I know that to ignore the whining is to do so at my own peril, so I got up. Walked downstairs and let her out. At the same instant she went out I noticed a white thing disappear under the arborvideas. Or I thought I did. Ruby sniffed quickly but needed to do her business. As I waited to see what would happen she wiggled over the the edge and sniffed. All of a sudden she jumped back and ran around to get a sneak attack.

Grrrr. So, here I am standing, topless, at my back door hoping my stupid dog doesn't decide to go after the stupid opossum in the back yard. I'm yelling at her and she's ignorning me. I see the little bugger walk out from under the trees and look at her. She gets down in a crouch and sniffs.

I'm still yelling, now outside topless, and unable to grab her... no collar, she makes too much noise with it at night. Finally, she seems to notice I'm yelling and looks at me like, "What's the big deal? Do you see that thing, it's crazy."

However, she who vibrates with excitment over the smallest thing is basically unfazed, interested, but unfazed. She lets me guide her back in the house, we return to sleep and I'm thankful that near miss with rabies is over.