heidi

Last week Steven was on the phone with a friend. I was in our home office playing on the computer. Millie was roaming around the house. A typical day at our casa. All of a sudden Millie lost her shit and was barking at something outside our front door. When I looked I saw there was a dog at our front door. Steven took Millie into the other room and I went outside to see what was going on.

The dog in question was Heidi, who belonged to the son of our next door neighbor. I took Heidi next door and knocked on our neighbor's door (it was 9:15 on a Friday night - I hoped she was still awake). When she answered the door she took one look at me and saw Heidi. "Oh Heidi, did you get out again?" she said. I thought she meant that the dog had escaped from her yard and she was watching the dog for her son, who lives in our neighborhood, but on the other saide. It turns out that the dog had escaped from the son's yard and wandered all the way across the neighborhood to come visit Grandma. It is important to note a couple of things about this dog, Heidi. First, she is 15 years old. Second, our neighborhood is pretty big, especially for a 15 year old dog to be wandering around at night. Lastly, this dog STINKS. And I don't mean in a typical dog kind of way. This dog hasn't been bathed in a long time. By the time I went back to our house I was thoroughly drenched in Heidi's funky smell. She is a friendly dog, but she is a German Shepard, so there is a lot of her. And she likes to walk between your legs, rubbing in the stink.

My shorts and shirt were covered in dog hair and odor. I couldn't get that smell out of my nose for almost two days. And Millie is still pissed at me becuase she smelled Heidi on me when I returned and I am sure she thinks I am cheating on her with another dog.