My Wish For The Girls

My girls have it made — they really do! They live a loved, pampered, protected life – extreme opposite of the life they would have had if we hadn’t found them abandoned and in desperate need of a friend to help them!

But – if there was just one more thing I would wish for them, it would be a roof over their back yard! I have a large fenced in back yard that they LOVE to play and run around in! They love to be outside until they tire themselves out and then they want to be inside where they can curl up on the couch and snooze!

BUT – on days like today, where it is supposed to rain and be messy all day long, they get very frustrated that they can only go out for short little “visits” in the back yard to take care of business and then are made to come right back in! Mind you – they don’t care that it is raining and wet – they don’t mind getting soaked – but I don’t want that mess in the house and I don’t want them getting sick! So they are doomed, on what is usually a day of play and rolling in the grass, to spend their time cooped up in the house! Which always gets me to wondering — is it REALLY that bad if they get soaked and track in a mess? After all, I do have mops and towels and a vacuum – I can clean it up! The alternative is listening to them whine, bark, and scratch at the door that leads out to the patio and putting up with the running and roughhousing in the house! Hhhmmm……let’s see – clean house or my sanity – which will win out? ha-ha!

If they just had a roof over their back yard, they could go out regardless of the weather and play without getting all wet and muddy!!! Of course, it would have to cover the entire back yard so they can have as much fun on rainy days as they do on sunny days and it would have to be RETRACTABLE so that we could reel it in so they could lay in the sun on nice days (they love to sunbathe)……..oh well – looks like they’re gonna have to wait until I win the Lottery to have a way to enjoy their back yard regardless of the weather!!! Until then, we’ll deal with the pent up energy on rainy days – cause, yes – a clean house wins out over sanity (cause when you get right down to it, sanity is highly overrated)!!!

Poor babies — what a mean ol’ Mom they have………