Wow. That was a deafening Thanksgiving. It sounded a lot like this.
A relative of ours whose husband recently died came to Thanksgiving at our house yesterday. She's got a young corgi who will wreck her house if she leaves it alone for any length of time, so she brought it along.
Corgis are the worst dogs in the world. The. Worst. They have no sense of dog protocol and will get right up in the faces of other dogs, hoping to play. Even if the other dogs are clearly expressing their displeasure, corgis will still jam their snouts into the other dogs' grills like the total idiots they are.
Our dogs, even the usually calm and accepting Bodie, took a dislike to this and tried to let that moron know how he should behave. Instead of taking the hint, he figured this meant he needed to bark, too. He ran around the house, shoving his face at people and dogs and barking loudly.
I have no idea if the food was any good. I don't know what we discussed at the table. I do know the Washington Football Team beat the Cowgirls, but our son and I didn't have a chance to enjoy it because BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK.
When he got home, our son texted me. It just said, "*BARK*."
Our relative will always be invited and she's always welcome. She's a lovely person. The only way to have avoided this would have been to let her stay home alone on Thanksgiving and that would have been unacceptaBARK.
One More Thing: BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK.
Tom Thanks for the morning cheer up..I had a neighbor up the street who had two corgi's and how correct you are!!! Andy and I had a quiet day and dinner of Game Hen for our holiday and got to ?"Zoom" with both Don and Kathleen in Arizona and Barry in Texas.
ReplyDeleteI suppose a corgi would cook up nicely, they are about the right size for a family dinner. Tend to be nicely plump, too.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a comic strip from New Zealand called "Footrot Flats", and one of the minor characters was a corgi named Prince Charles, complete with a big belly and stumpy legs. One of the strips said that corgis are "Welsh Cattle Dogs", and went on to say, "If those are cattle dogs, can you imagine Welsh cattle?" Followed by a drawing of a couple of cows so massively obese that their legs didn't touch the ground. One of them had a corgi latched onto her hindquarters, and the other said, "Dear, you've got the biggest tick I've ever seen!"
One of our neighbors down the road has some number of little barky dogs that lose their little canine heads whenever anyone walks past on the road. I never see them outside, but it sounds like at least three of them in there. I don't know how the neighbor stands it.
If she's such a lovely person how come she would put you all through that? Asking for a friend.
ReplyDeletelineus,
ReplyDeleteShe didn't have any good options. She had just gotten back from a long driving trip where she had nursed her father through to his end. Her world had fallen in on her in the last six months. They got the puppy while her husband was still alive.
I'll take the BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK in exchange for giving her some emotional shelter.
Still, I think BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK.