Bella and I went to the beach both days this weekend and didn't meet any doctors (that I could tell just by looking) (yet) though I met Peggy who told me she's 76 (and looks to be mid-60s). She owns a 7 month old Tibetan Terrier who's added "tremendous joy to [her] life." Sunday I met Cathy who owns a corgi-humping mutt named Rufus. We had fun - mostly though I had to bathe Bella when we got home. Those humpers are really disgusting.
At Rio Del Mar, Bella still freaks about the hang-gliders so I have to watch out for them - springing off the cliffs, hovering over us, looming large and freakish, ready to attack my precious, frightened corg-ster. She hates kites too, and after a few vicious hang-gliders, she becomes suspicious of seagulls. One really can't avoid a seagull at the sea - I mean it's their main hang-out next to the parking lot at a ball game (where my friend Lib once killed a seagull by tossing it a gherkin). If the hang-gliders suddenly appear, Bella takes off down the beach like a rocket (on short legs) in the opposite direction (of me). Everyone watching on the beach most likely assumes I have beaten her while I shout "SHE'S NOT MY DOG!" as I chase after her.
Bella hurt herself running around, trying to herd all the other dogs. Today she's limping except when my sister took her for a walk - she appeared to be cured. Though as soon as she saw me again, the limp miraculously returned.
Late Sunday afternoon, Bradley came for a "bisit." He asked if we could go on a dwive on da woad to see the bon (barn) and the dinosaurs. First we went to the bon, as we drove by Bradley yelled out "Bye bye, bon, hope you don't get too skarwed." Then we drove to bisit the dinosaurs but some people were out there already bisiting the dinosaurs so Bradley yelled something about a Tyrannosaurus rex and roared at the bisitors outside the car window.
| Guess who should be inside the fenced area? |
I decided to drive to nearby Summit store and buy Bradley an ice cream because a 2.5 year old needs more sugar. In the store parking lot there was a woman and a young girl yelling, "OMG it's a corgi!!" (Corgi-cheerleaders!) We left the corgi in the car and walked into the store and found the woman who screamed out OMGaCorgi! Bradley started yammering to the young girl about the dinosaurs, the dinosaurs egg, the baby dinosaur and the pterodactyl all the while the girl was looking at him, mouth agape. He w/could not shut up. Then he started jumping up and down which I think is OCD behavior. - He jumps up and down a lot. I. mean. a. lot! I'm not sure he can be stopped from jumping up and down or talking about the dinosaurs to strangers. Finally the OMGaCorgi woman realized she had a life and a daughter who was in shock, and they left Bradley and I standing in the frozen food aisle, jumping up and down, talking about pterodactyls and dinosaur eggs and roaring. We picked out ice creams (3 of them) and walked towards the cash register where Bradley, for good measure, tossed in a Cadbury egg because even though we've not endured the full brunt of Valentine's Day with it's hearts and candy and flowers and Valentine cards and the billion commercials about all those things to purchase to make a person's life momentarily spectacular, and if-you-don't-have-a-date-you're-a-loser-so-face-it, it's Easter already and a two & a half year old boy can't get enough sugar, bons or dinosaurs.
| Not a Cadbury |
7 comments:
Wait, there are DINOSAURS in your neck of the woods?!? How did I not know this? Now I HAVE to come for another bisit!
Poor Bella and her limpy foot. And the mean old things in the sky that scare her. Not nice. A dog just wants to have a day at the beach, not live in mortal fear that something is gonna swoop down and get her! I feel for her, I do...maybe she needs a doggie Xanax before she goes to the beach.
I could bring my dog to the beach, but I'm afraid she would spend all of her time chasing seagulls (she is very territorial about the airspace over "her" yard - will chase ravens, helicopters and the occasional low-flying plane, but always stops at the property line. Well-trained.)
On the other hand, you could bring Bradley here for a visit - they are opening a new dinosaur museum sometime (hopefully, before he turns 40 - all that jumping up and down would be a little odd in a 40-year old)......
Boy I hope you turned that "Lib" in for animal cruelty!!
and now Im giggling at the doggie xanax idea.
our bullmastiff was enormous and ENORMOUSLY SCARED OF EVERYTHING.
Wow, you have been having some fun!
I've had patients that have acted just like Bella and her limp :-)
She may be little, but your dog sure knows how to steal the scene in photos with her large presence!
This whole thing kept me laughing! If my Sydney ran from me at the beach I don't think I'd ever catch her!
But, seriously, how did a pickle kill a seagull?
Bradley.is.amazing. I love a kid that jumps :)
I know I'm chiming in late, here, but I have to say that Bradley reminds me of my son when he was little...talking nonstop, jumping up and down and just totally ocd. The good news is he grew up to be a fine adult. Besides Bradley is cute and he probably knows it. Ditto Bella. You can bet if limping gets attention she's gonna limp. She is not dumb. I'd give anything to be able to walk on the beach in February.
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