dog day afternoon

Memorial day weekend was fun and relaxing. We hung out with Kev’s mom, saw both Iron Man (hint, stay for all the credits) and Indiana Jones. We ate far too much junk food, thrust upon us by my mother in law. I learned the recipe for lemon cream, which oh yes…I will be making very soon.

As it is now officially hot as all hell here in the south, I decided to give Sadie a haircut. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the plastic guides to go with her clippers…so her haircut is a little…patchy. OH well, she doesn’t seem to mind. I also gave one of my in-law’s dogs, Killer, a haircut. I just used scissors on him, so he still looks like a little floopy dog, just less so. Then they both got baths.

Later we chilled in the garage to watch Kev’s nephew, Tyler, make a fool of himself with water balloons. We figured Sadie would just hang out or go exploring. See, while Sadie is a very happy, friendly dog, who will occasionally play the odd game of tug of war in the living room, when she is outside off leash? Sadie is in the zone. She will come to you. But she really wants to do her own thing. She’s not much of an outside play dog. Unless she’s swimming, in which case you must throw her sticks which she will swim to retrieve, bring halfway back, let go, and then demand more sticks.

For whatever reason, that day, Sadie was ready to PLAY. Perhaps it was the fresh haircut and bath, making her cool enough for active play in the sun. Or maybe she was just in a silly mood. For whatever reason, when Tyler started filling water balloons up, Sadie wanted IN on that action. She chased. She pondered. She’d figured out how to pick them up, only to shake them into bursting in her face.

When her demand for water balloons outpaced Tyler’s ability to fill them fast enough, he found a ball with a jingle bell in it for her to fetch. Except instead of bringing it back to him, she would trot over and dump the ball into the bucket of drinking water under the spiggot. And then bark and paw at the water until Tyler fished it out and tossed it again.

Folks…I was INCAPACITATED WITH LAUGHTER. I was CRYING, I was laughing so hard. This is THEEEEE most entertaining thing sadie has done in a long time, and THANK GOD, I had my camera. With low batteries.

Oh well, I think I got enough video to show you the funny.