"Lucy and Ethel try to take a walk"

You let her go, or I'm gonna splatter your ugly face all over this nice car.    From Thelma & Louise, 1991

It was a pretty uneventful Saturday.  I planted my raised bed garden and moved a few of my herbs to a new bed.  Other than that, the only real productive thing I did was drive the ghetto van with three boys and a lawn mower to a house and drop them off and then pick them up---I don't know how I became the driver in their lawn care business that they created two days ago.  At least they are attempting to earn some of their own money, so I'm trying to be supportive.  After taking a shower this afternoon, Madi and I planned a five mile walk for the evening.   The weather here was absolutely gorgeous.  After my shower, I took a quick nap and then Madi got me up to go for our walk....famous last words.

We decided she would take the Devil Dog around the block for a stroll because we were not sure that he could make the long walk.  I took Hershey and Chocolate out back in the fence while she walked Cecil.

The labs and I had just got back in the house when Madi and Cecil came through the door.

Cecil ran upstairs and Madi yelled, "Are you Ready Mom?"

She came in and went to her room for a moment, leaving the child (dog) gate at the top of the stairs open and the front door cracked.  Before I could even get up, I heard the stomping of twelve paws on the stairs.  I jump up and say, "Hurry Madi."  By the time we had gone out the door, all the dogs were running across the street after a German Shepherd on a lease with his owner.  I get to them and grab Hershey by the collar, mumbling, "I'm so sorry."   Meanwhile, Cecil is running in circles around Madison almost daring her to catch him.  Chocolate is running to the fence with two dogs.  As he sees me coming, he turns and starts running down the street full speed.  The devil dog sees him and decides it is a race.  I hand Hershey to Madi and tell her to take him in and come back with leases and I was off, big girl in a tie dyed t-shirt running after a devil dog and a crazy acting black lab mix.   What a site!!!!

About half a block down, Cecil spots a house with its garage door open and shoots inside jumping on a dog and a dog's family.   They grab him.  I thank them and try to yell for Chocolate, who is darting across the street stopping traffic and me darting after him carrying a large overweight devil dog.

Madi is now coming down the street and Chocolate doesn't see her.  Snag....she grabs him and puts a leash on him and waits until I'm there.  She hands me Cecil's leash and I quickly drop him and clip it on.

We start home....when Chocolate decides he is going to run with all his might----getting Madison all caught up in Cecil's leash--she then falls really hard with Chocolate dragging her on her knee.  We quickly trade off leashes and I wrap his leash around my wrist and he starts running again.  I try to keep up with him....panting...and heading toward the house.  Madison and Cecil follow behind.  Madison is limping and Cecil breaks free with his leash following behind.

They all run up the stairs, run to the water dish and plop down on the linoleum all tired out.

Whew!

Madison comes up the stairs limping.

We look at each other and laugh hysterically.

Madison looks at me and says, "My knee hurts....(see pic above).  I don't think I want to go for a walk now."  I laugh and say me neither.

I then said, "but I just changed the batteries in my camera and loaded up a new memory card."

She laughed.  I said, "let me take a pic of your knee. I'm gonna write about how

Lucy and Ethel tried to take a walk."

We are sitting on the couch watching an episode of Ellen.

Well at least I got my garden planted today!

Happy Saturday!

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