Sadie n' Things

It's nearly 9am, Good Morning!  It was an OK night, and promises to be an OK day - as long as I find things to stay busy with.  Sadie the Pup has been keeping me busy.  After it rains here, the patio is quite the mess, so Sadie and I were out early, hosing it off so it would dry before she wanted to come out and play.  But its been so humid, it hasn't quite dried.  I'm out on the patio with my netbook, and she's snooping around the yard in dog fashion.  There's a yappy little dog in the house behind us, but she's indoors; must be a door open so she can hear Sadie outside, and is yapping up a storm.  Sadie, being the good dog that she is, barked a couple of times as if to say "Hey, I'm out here, and you're being a doofus, so be quiet."  Then she ignores the barking, and flops herself into a sunny spot.  But only as long as I sit out here. lol

I took her for an early morning walk, and she's the funniest dog.  Oh sure, she wants to sniff around at everything, but I keep the leash taut and never stop walking, so she's good about keeping up.  When we round the last corner of our block, however, she's pulling at the leash, wanting to go faster.  So I pick up the pace.  And she still wants to go faster, her little head turns around to look at me as if to say "Come on, you can do it, let's boogie!"  So I break into a jog.  She runs faster, looking back, "c'mon, c'mon, faster!"  And we jog past 9 houses, all the way to ours.  She's learning which driveway is ours, turns right in and heads for the door as if SHE owns the place.  And frankly, she sort of does right now. lol

A little fetch in the backyard with a semi flat tennis ball and she decides she's going to run back and forth, back and forth in the puddle, getting completely muddy, of course!  It will soon be time to get hosed off and into the house --- for a nap I hope!  lol

As for me, I am attempting to my mind busy, occupied, thinking of other things, because if I don't, I find myself feeling too alone in the world.  I should plan a vacation, or a drive somewhere.  An overnight stay even.  But all of them seem to lead to the beach, and that's not in the cards for me. At all.  I sometimes think that maybe I should just do it - and get it out of my system.  Or would that just hurt even more?  Sometimes it isn't easy trying to figure that part out. 

Hey -- Welcome to the weekend!!