This morning started out like any other morning with me crawling out of bed, trying to balance on both legs before taking my first step. Somehow my left knee cooperated with me. Just a slight pain. I fed the cats and put Maggie and Lily outside to do their business. I woke Truett up, fed him and announced I was going to get the newspaper.
As I stepped out the back door, I fed our mangy daddy cat, looked up, and saw Maggie and Lily outside of the fence out by Clay's house. "Hey, girls. Are you having fun?" Then ding! It hit me. My dogs are loose! Then I looked to the gate and it was standing wide open and I got a sinking feeling in my stomach.
Calmly, I worked my way out to the gate by Clay's house, cooing, "Come here girls. Come on. Want a cookie?" Lily came through the gate and headed toward the gazebo, but she got distracted by a bug in the sand and stopped. SNATCH! That was relatively easy. "Good girl, Lily. You get a cookie." And I rushed her inside the house and dropped her in her pen.
I walked back outside where Maggie stood outside of Clay's gate watching me. "Maggie, want a cookie?" But, this stubborn girl took off outside of the fence and headed toward the front driveway. Ears flopping, feet flying. "MAGGIE! COME HERE!" I screamed. But, all I could see was a brown dart through the tree line making a run for the money.
I ran to the house and out the front door yelling Maggie's name. Then I saw her over by the gazebo.
God must have been smiling on me this morning at 7:15 because out of nowhere appeared Molly (formerly known as Ears Flat Back). I took off towards the gazebo and Maggie saw Molly, and their chase was on: around Bee Boy, the water fountain, and back towards the gazebo. All the while, I 'm clapping my hands and screaming, "Get over here dog!" Well, Molly darted up a tree, with Maggie frozen in one spot, barking her head off.
Three giant steps and SNATCH! I held Maggie tight and limped to the front steps. After I dumped Maggie into the dog pen, Truett, oblivious to my morning plight, asked, "Did you get the newspaper yet?" I explained what I had been doing and he said, "Oh, I guess I forgot to shut the gate when I came home last night."
"Yep! You did!" I quipped as I headed toward the bottle of Advil.
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