that was the headline in today’s springfield paper. i added the exclamation point, because that’s just how passionate i feel about the YARD WASTE AGREEMENT!
ok, i admit that i don’t even know anything at all about this VERY VERY IMPORTANT STORY. i will never ever get a good citizen award, at the rate i’m going.
but i just wanted you to know, in case you don’t live here in spfld, the kinds of EARTH-SHATTERING HAPPENINGS that are going on each and every day here.
kevin and mollie and i just got back from two nights of house-sitting at amy and jim’s. pet-sitting, actually. three dogs, two of whom are fairly rambunctious but a lot better than they used to be, and one adorable little fellow, shadow, who has no teeth left yet still managed to eat crunchy dog treats. oh, and four cats.
amy left me two pages of typed notes on how to feed and care for the pets. a big part of it was about feeding the dogs; numie and noodle each got two cups of dog food, plus a half-cup of dry dog food, and shadow got one cup mixed with half a liquid pill. this is homemade dog food that amy makes in gigantic portions, mind you. i had to microwave it for seven minutes at 30% power, and then all the mixing and dividing-up and then numie had to eat in the bathroom, shadow in the laundry room, while noodle ate in the kitchen.
mollie was there too, of course, and she wolfed down her half can of dog food wherever she felt like it.
and then there was the cat feeding, including special instructions for poor Mr. Kitty, the most affectionate and sweet kitty i’ve ever met, who has a serious liver problem and probably won’t live much longer. he now pees on everything so he’s only allowed inside to eat, and then he must go back out. luckily they have a heated dog house for him to stay in. he’s also allowed to sleep downstairs in the basement but only if someone is there to make sure he doesn’t get upstairs and start another peeing rampage.
all of this was merely a portion of the instructions. the dogs had to be walked a lot, and shadow was supposed to have salve massaged into his paw and then he was supposed to wear a little bootie over the paw. but he wasn’t crazy about the bootie. he kicked it off almost immediately.
we’re all kind of tired after all the pet-sitting. mollie is ECSTATIC to be the only dog again. whatever will she do if we decide to get another dog? she’ll sulk, that’s what. we sat on amy and jim’s couch and the dogs all joined us, but if any dog sat next to mollie she would jump down and sit on the floor looking up at us, very very sadly.
the kitties stayed and mom and dad’s house which worked out well except they HATE going in the car so much and this time i decided to just throw them in the car without their carrier and spent the ride over there worried that they were going to climb under the gas pedal and cause a huge accident. but then were ok aside from the perpetual meowing.
once they got there, they were fine. they’re even better now, crashed out on the couch, happy to be home.
ok then, i hope you can rest easier tonight, knowing that an agreement on yard waste has finally been reached.
very concerned grace.