Doggy Diva

Yesterday morning our granddaughter Hailey picked up Alli to take her to work with her at Classic Canine. As I said in a recent blog post, Hailey is a dog groomer with many regular customers who bring their pooches to her for their regular pampering, and she decided Alli deserved the diva treatment.

To be honest, I was surprised how readily Alli went with her because she’s usually glued to my hip 24/7. But Hailey definitely has a special rapport with dogs, and they got along fine. When Hailey brought her back a few hours later she was beautiful!

Hailey gave her the full treatment, including a bath, a blow dry, and clipping her nails. German shepherds are notorious shedders every month of the year, and there was a lot of fur flying during the process. Thank you, Hailey, you did an amazing job. 😊

Allie wasn’t the only one who got a makeover yesterday. I was beyond downright shaggy, so Terry took me out on the back deck and trimmed my hair and beard.  I look almost presentable to polite company now.

In other news, Terry and I are both avid readers, and I think I have unpacked the last of our books and brought them in from the garage. For know I just stuffed them into bookcases until I have time to organize them better.

That won’t be for a while yet, because today we are going down to Apache Junction to spend a few days with Terry’s mom and dad. It’s going to be very hot, into the triple digits. But it’s a dry heat, right? Yeah, it’s dry inside of an oven, too.

I think we have enough unpacked that once we get back, I can get my focus on writing again. I need to get back to Tinder Street and see what those nice folks are up to. I also plan to resume the weekly blog drawings, now that I have found and unpacked the prizes.

And finally, here’s a chuckle to start your day from the collection of funny signs we see in our travels and that our readers share with us.

Thought For The Day – This is your life. Unlike a movie, there is no dress rehearsal.