Just Stuff

We got a chance to sit on the deck this weekend.  For once no rain.  I really like this deck and will probably be spending a good deal of time on it this spring and summer.  First of all it is so firmly built that it give you a sense of security and just high enough off the ground that you know you are off the ground, if that makes any sense,  It faces the backyard and the pool and the bamboo so we don't have to look at Hagatha and her minions across the street.  Our big back yard backs up on another big back yard which we can't see anyway because of the bamboo.  It's just very serene and once I fill the big pot I bought with plants and move the orange tree out it wll be even better.

The dogs are already great fans of the deck just to go out and lounge and it's the only place outdoors that the last and ancient cat Chloe will go.  Yesterday Charlie took up residence sprawled in front of the steps leading down to the grass and it looked as if he was protecting us, blocking us from marauders coming up the stairs.  There were no marauders, of course, only Kali doing something on the pile of cut and dried bamboo that made it clunk and rustle and nearly chime against each other.

I know I have said it before but the dogs LOVE the yard.  When I think of last year and the cramped yard in the rental house and the small porch out front that was their only territory it makes  my heart hurt.  Not to mention Crabby Appleton next door to us who would pet Kali but not Charlie because he didn't like "that dog".  Hey A-hole you either pet one or none.  Now the dogs can start at out back fence and run full out to the front fence and get up a good speed as they do it.  Then they can explore the stands of bamboo and the perimeter of the fence not to mention under the deck, under the porch and anywhere they darn well please.
Kali has already started her first hole project.  I find it amazing that she can dig straight down, more neatly than I would using a shovel.  I think she's hunting for moles.

Charlie on the other hand buries  It's usually his bones, that's when he doesn't bring them in to me in the craft room for me to hold onto them for him.  Someday, in the far future, archiologists will be digging up the yard and wonder if there was some great extinction event that took place there instead of one big dog burying his bones. I wonder if he knows that Emily, Mutley, Ollie, Rocco, Neba, Pip, Twirly, Patchwick, Honey, Poppy, Robin, Bum Bum, BUmmy Rubbits, Iggy Juana, Patty and crew are all burried there under his feet.

My but there will be a gag waiting for me when it's my turn to go over the rainbow bridge.  Can't wait.