Day 138...free roamin'

Jun 6

Eli sent me a text around 2:30, saying he just got a message from our neighbor D.J., that Sheba was out of the yard. It wasn't an emergency, but I still felt a little uneasy. I didn't think she would run off, or even go near Thompson, but I just didn't like it.

When I got home at 5, there was a note on the front door that said "7:30, you're dog is out, couldn't catch her." Which I'm assuming was from our next door neighbor D.J. Sheba is totally scared of him, so it was no surprise to me that he couldn't catch her. I walked in the house, and there she was! I had left the back door open this morning, and whoever caught her, had put her in the house, and shut the back door. I was kind of shocked. There was a note on the table, from my neighbor across the street, the one with the blue berry patch, saying she was able to catch Sheba and shut the back door because she wasn't sure how she got out of the yard.

So I decided to do a perimeter scan, and when I got to the back corner of the yard, I found her escape route. There's a space at the end of the fence, where we have three cinder blocks stacked up and tied in place, and the rope has rotted, allowing the blocks to fall over. Also, all the bits of concrete and a couple other cinder blocks, we had stacked along the bottom of the back fence have washed down a bit from the rain, so I pulled those all up and set them back at the base of the fence.

I'm so glad we have good neighbors, who watch out for us and our dog. As annoyed as I get with living in suburbia, it makes up for it having great neighbors. I'm looking forward to teaching Martyn to be a good neighbor, one of these days. It was nice to go down to the blue berry patch, and say thanks for catching the dog, in person....and visit with them for a bit. Martyn enjoyed it too.

That was about all the excitement we had for the day. Martyn was so happy this morning when he woke up...boy letting him wake up slow really makes a big difference in him in the morning. He was happy when I picked him up too, but looking pretty tired. He seems to want to go to bed earlier and earlier every night.