Happy New Year

So how did YOU spend your New Year's Eve? Hmmmmmmm?

I spent mine right at the stroke of midnite, chasing my Damn dog up and down a dark dark street.

The evening started out just fine. Bob brought T-bone steaks and Lobster tails over, and We grilled them out side. (no it is not that warm, but if we dont grill in the dark, the rain, and the wind, we don't get to grill at all.) We ate a nice slow leisurly meal, talking about Iraq and how to win the peace over there. (We concluded that since there have been tribal wars in that region since the beginning of time, that it is impossible to do so, and that the only one who CAN bring peace to that region is the creator!) Whom ever you feel that may be! We moved on in to the living room and turned on PBS which had the new OKLAHOMA! musical on, so I watched that while Bob read his BREW magazines. (remember, he is brewing beer for a year)

It actually was a very nice evening, me watching the show and crocheting his afghan, (the one I started 18 years ago, until he came over one night with a snoot full, and said "GOD THAT IS THE UGLIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!" It got put away for 18 years and discovered a few weeks ago in the bottom of a box.) I am going to finish it anyway. He has a birthday coming up, it would serve him right if he got it for a gift huh?

Just before midnight around 11:40, I put Sadie in her pen in my bathroom. She was ready for nite-nite. SHe was snuggling in and making her bed when I closed the bedroom door. About 3 minutes to midnite, Sadie started barking hysterically, so Bob and I went in to see what was wrong, and she had jumped out of her pen and was barking her head off at the fireworks on the corner. I, Like a bloody FOOL, opened the front door to see what was going on, just as Bob came over to give me my 1 and only kiss for this year, and WHOOSH--Sadie ran right out the door into the night.

Bob stood there puckered up and I was running in my slippers down the road trying to get her back. Sadie, thank God, is Buff colored so I could see her against the dark night. Sure enough down on the corner, across from the wolves, the people were shooting off lots of really cool fireworks. THese are the same people that put on a great show on the beach on the fourth of July. Sadie would not be caught. She ran helter-skelter, from one yard to the next, through the hedges, over the driveways onto the porches, with her nose to the ground scenting something. Soon she was over to the WOlves, and stirred them up, They did not howl though but they woofed.

RIght across the Cul-de-Sac are two of Janice and Dans dogs, and I did not want to stir them up either, so where did Sadie head? yep right back toward the dogs. I am by this time almost out of breath when Sadie runs right between my legs and over to the fireworks barking like a fool. I thought someone would grab her, but NOOOOO, No one was ALLOWED to catch her. Little BITCH!!

Bob by this time was in his truck with his lights on bright trying to light the road, but all he was doing was blinding me so I could not see at all. I sat right down in the middle of the road, hoping that he would not run over me, and that Sadie would come to me then. But NOOOOOOO I was not allowed to catch her either. SO Bob stops the truck in the middle of the road, opens both doors and is yelling lets go BYe-BYE at the dark street, hoping that she would jump in. Sadie came right up to him, jumped in to the truck and right out the other side and then ran between his legs and back into Janice's yard and on to her front porch. I could see Janice peering around the curtain, but she did not have a clue who I was, out at midnight, sitting sober in the middle of the damned road yelling for my freaking dog! (I woulda said Fuck, but Esther and NJ read this. and they are ladies!) I then thought, Hey, she loves to lay on my back, so I layed down on my stomach in the middle of the dark wet road, and called to her and she cames running, and jumped right over me using my back as a spring board, and takes off again, into the dark.

By this time I am about to cry and cussing a storm and beating on the asphalt and Sadie looks across the road at me like I am nuts, SO I start to sing, and SHe starts to sing, and just as Bob reaches for her.....OFF she trots again!! She is gone to the wolves again, with Bob in hot pursuit!

I sit up and I am trying to get myself off the pavement when Sadie runs out of the trees and into the culvert, then out of the culvert and stops. I yell SIT YOU LITTLE BITCH SIT!! and she does, as still as a mouse. and Bob slowly walks over to her picks her up and looks at me and says, NOW WHY DIDNT YOU DO THAT 20 MINUTES AGO? I just grabbed Sadie from him and headed home totally out of breath while he backs the truck all the way down the road to my house. I make it up the steps, and take Sadie and put her Back into her pen, telling her what a good girl she was, (cant discipline her for sitting!) and then went into the living room totally gasping for breath and my pulse about 140.

Bob chooses this time to come over and try to give me my one and only kiss. I just looked at him and he backed off until I was through weezing,and gulping for air, gave me a quick kiss, said happy new year and ran out the door for home.

ANd how was your night???