Lucky!!!

Look who came to visit! :) Lucky is the neighbors dog. He is a total sweetheart and I believe he is 6 years old now but really acts like a 2 year old dog. Full of energy and obviously some mischief too! So about a week and a half ago (yes, when the weather was actually nice!) Lucky decided there were more entertaining things on the other side of the fence. Actually what I really think he is interested in is something behind the fence he can't see through.....

But the neighbors weren't home that night and we were out in the backyard doing some weeding and Lucky felt he needed some company. So, he joined us.


The kids had fun with him....Andy was a little unimpressed when he peed right were Andy was weeding! Later on, when the neighbors came home, they were highly unimpressed at Lucky's antics. They immediately put up some wood to block his path while we went inside to get the boys ready for bed. About 45 minutes later, as Andy was reading bedtime stories, I had run downstairs for something and noticed that whatever the neighbors had done to keep Lucky contained, had not worked. He was at my back door again, probably looking for the cats! (he had seen them there earlier!) I had to laugh and then told him to go back home. The next day, the neighbors did some more work on keeping him contained and we haven't seen him in our backyard since. We actually don't mind, but the owners are worried that if he figures too much out (like jumping the fence!) then he will get into the front yard as well and then there will be trouble. I don't blame them but it was fun while it lasted! ;)

C is for "Critters"

Yes critters....as in "they are NOT my friends" right now!! Actually most four legged creatures are currently on my bad list since the other morning I woke up early to go on my walk and was greeted in the kitchen by a lovely brown "treasure" from one of the cats. Not sure which one either. To accompany this "treasure" was a "streak that started on the carpet and went halfway across my kitchen floor. Safe to say at this point I wasn't having a good morning. I go to get cleaning supplies to start on the mess and look out the back door to discover much of my container garden on my deck is dug up and the carrot and onion seeds that Matthew had planted (and were growing very well) were dug up and strewn all over!! I was fairly positive any outdoor cats didn't cause this mess and upon further inspection, I found raccoon prints on my sliding glass door. Later in the day, I found out that the neighbor has had the same problems and said that a momma and her three babies were living up high in a tree. Argghhhh..... damn raccoons! Then a couple of days later, a house behind us obviously had a new dog and we finally figured out it was escaping their backyard to get into our backyard to use it as his own personal toilet! Now I don't own a dog yet, I actually might consider one in the future, but I am not interested in letting some other dog use my yard for nothing but excrement!!

So anything with four legs right now needs to be on its best behavior...around me at least!! My poor kitties, I have been awfully grouchy with them lately! :)