In this episode, some of us may be weeping while some of us may eating soup.
Dirt Nite got cancelled last night. Because actual water fell from the sky.
Was I sad when I plucked my phone out of my heavy jacket's kleenex pocket with shivering, damp fingers, to receive this news at work? Which I heard while watching the big black clouds come rolling right at me from across the hills while I was busy tucking horses into their extra warm nighttime jammies? Thanked the nice man for the news, spraying disease from my sniffling sinuses and hacking throat back onto my germy little phone, tucked back into my germy, dirty pocket.
Sad to hear that I didn't have to drag in an entire course worth of agility stuff from out of the trailer, up the little muddy hill in the rain in air that might even spit ice balls at my head? Drag finger pinching metal bases and dogwalk planks and 20' tunnels and the a-frame which used to be dirty and now, muddy? And then stand around in parkas yelling over rain pounding the covered arena roof, then running around listening to barking which is even louder than the metal roof noise, then drag all the dirty, muddy, finger pinching stuff back down the little muddy hill back into the trailer in the dark?
That instead of all this and more, I would just go home to my house which has a heater and maybe even a can of lowfat minestrone soup with my name on it?
Wouldn't a good agility person be sad? Weeping?
Yeah. And shouldn't all sarcasm be gently wiped off the rainbow by the smiling unicorn family?
posted by team small dog at 6:14 AM
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On rainy nights when I have too much to do but the dogs are going nuts from neglect, I'm torn between hoping class will be canceled and praying that it won't be. And sucking down the reduced-sodium chicken noodle soup.
Oh no!
I usually use the tie the dog up in the driveway and hose down with cold water for a long time before bringing into the bathtub method. Yes, rolling in hot man shit a definite plus to have a 14lb short haired dog and for them to do it during warm weather.
So yes. Next time we will just have Dirt Nite.
I use the hose outside, too. Oh, well, it's cold and dark and wet, but then the dog would be willing to plunge into a cold stinky stream if it was in the mood so I don't feel too bad. Plus I don't have to go through what Mary's gone through.
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