The Girls

Both Cindy and Eric were gone last Tuesday night. "The Girls" usually sleep by the door of their room upstairs. As I've said, they live for the possibility that they may kill someone some day. Tuesday night they stayed downstairs, in front of my door. That's the door in the middle of the picture on the left. The bathroom door is at Sunshine's feet. Bailey is lying in the doorway to the dining room. So, when nature calls in the middle of the night, do you turn on your lights? All I could feel was dog under my feet. And still they didn't move. Turning on the light and taking their picture finally got a response from Sunshine. How could I disturb her sleep?

Sunshine got revenge on Saturday for me disrupting her sleep. I took a walk earlier in the week and took a picture of the sidewalk down our street. It has been beautiful in Arlington this summer. Everyone comments on it. That day, Eric and Cindy decided to take Bailey to the park. They left Sunshine in the house with the other old girl. I thought I had waited a decent period of time, time enough to go around the two blocks I'd been told about. So I let Sunshine out the front door to do what dogs do outside. What she decided to do was to follow the rest of her family. I got all the way down the block before I could grab onto her collar. We were a funny pair. She was not moving. No. We stayed on the corner for some time. We met a new dog and his master. They were very nice. We talked about how old ladies can't keep up with the young 'uns so it would be better to turn around and go home. Nothing moved her. Finally she realized that I was as determined as her. So we both got a little air that day.