I’m not big on decorating my house for holidays.
Okay, it’s true I do decorate the inside at Christmas, but rarely do I do any type of decorating on the outside.
So when I happened to be at the Home Depot with my grandchildren for their monthly workshop, they requested we go look at the Halloween items and I’m not really sure what came over me, but I found myself picking up a few items to decorate the house.
You saw the scarecrow in the #dogfallfun picture I posted on Monday. **Side note** Have you entered our Instagram contest yet? It’s not too late, I’d love for the winner to be one of you!
We took it out on the little balcony at the front of the house and I asked my little granddaughter where we should place it. She suggested in front of my bedroom window.
HELL NO! Do you know how many times a night I’d wake up, look out that window and crap my pants?
I convinced her to prop the scarecrow in the corner, by the slider (out of sight of any glass). I was perfectly content to leave it there, I mean in the past we’ve had things stolen from our vehicles and our yard and it would piss me off to walk the dogs up in the woods and find my scarecrow propped up staring at me. Not to mention the start I’d get from a distance thinking it was a real person.
But when I came home from work on Tuesday Hubby had the scarecrow and his sledgehammer.
“I thought I’d put this up, where do you want it?”
We debated it. He wanted it close to the house, but I was afraid it would startle mom if she looked out the window. (We don’t need her crapping her pants!)
Since I didn’t want it too far from the house, I suggested the middle of the lawn, on the other side of the sidewalk. Which meant it was in front of the front door.
This is going to bite me in the ass I thought to myself, but aloud I said, “It will probably drive the dogs crazy.”
In hindsight I should have taken the dogs outside immediately. During the daylight so they could check her out. But I didn’t.
Flash forward to 6:00 yesterday morning.
Did I remember that the fuggin’ scarecrow was out there?
No. No, I did not.
It’s been darker in the mornings now, and that makes it harder to get up, but I did. I’d been in that great zone, you know the one, where you sleep really good right before it’s time to wake up.
I got up, got the dog’s food ready, dressed myself and grabbed all my gear. I leashed up the dogs, opened the front door and all I can say, is thank DOG there is a storm door in place, because Delilah lost her shit.
LOST. HER. SHIT.
I took a deep breath, grasped the leashes tightly, opened the storm door and was dragged eight feet to the scarecrow, where she inspected it thoroughly.
And then again when we got back home because there was more light and she could.
I knew that’d bite me in the ass.
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