March 18th

March 18th, 2009

My 30th Birthday

You would think that there would be a picture today of some sort of celebration, and don't get me wrong, we did go out to dinner.  But today was really the day of the dog.  You see this morning the dogs snuck out the door when Jonathan was leaving for school.  Dave sneaking out is nothing new.  But Marley has never run off like that before.  I woke Nicholas up and we drove around the neighborhood looking for the dogs, and eventually found them.    They were wet, muddy, stinky and really excited about thier romp.  I gave them baths (the picture is of dave, the cleaner of the two dogs as he is trying to avoid getting thrown in the tub...), and got them as cleaned up as I could.  I really coudn't get the nasty, rotten, smell off of Marley.  It was really bad.  Then sometime this afternoon Marley developed some intestinal trouble, in the form of liquid diharrea.  Yes, I know, you don't come here to read about my dogs poop problems... but it is my birthday, humor me.  He tried to get outside but missed.  There was a trail of it running from the corner of my bed to the front door.  

That was bad enough.  I thought it was over.  But as I was waiting for this photo to upload, Marley got up and ran over to the back door.  I heard a big fart and thought, not again.  Sure enough he had left me a lovely puddle on the rug under the kitchen table... I let him out, and he did his best. 

I am pretty sure that this digestive problem stems from whatever adventure he had when he was traipsing around the neighborhood this morning.  With the odor he brought back on his fur I am not sure if I even want to know what he got into, but whatever it was it agreed with his stomach about as well as it agreed with my nose!

Man what a way to start the next decade of my life...