Joan is Home
Joan came home yesterday - she was gone for 9 days and I was counting. I knew she was leaving when I saw her box on wheels come out and then I was really sad. I sat outside until midnight sulking. Joan kept coming out to see how I was but I just wanted to be left alone. The next morning Joan and her sister Eileen left very early in the morning down the street with their rolling boxes. Joan took me for a walk at 5am and it was hot even then! Later that day, Roberta came to stay with me. Phew! I like Roberta even though when I first met her I would bark at her. Eventually I decided I liked her a lot.
Roberta told Joan that I peed on the carpet, but it wasn't my fault. Roberta couldn't come home one day for 12 hours and that was too long for me! I guess that ends my 2.5 year streak of never having an accident in the house. However, I don't really count it since it was so long I had to be inside. Joan forgot to tell Roberta to ask the neighbor, Doris, to let me out in a case like that!
As soon as Joan returned yesterday, we hopped in the car and went to my park. I got to run and jump in the Mississippi and gallop with other dogs. Joan thought I smelled so today she gave me a bath (just 2 hours ago!). While she was washing me in the front of the house, Sierra, the other chocolate lab from the street behind us came by with her human. Sierra came over and gave me a kiss but I wasn't really in the mood to play since Joan had the hose on me, trying to get the water to penetrate down through my thick fur. You'd think Joan could wash me in a more private place than the front yard!
Joan promised me that she is taking this week off of work, too, (well-deserved since a few weeks ago she was only getting 3 hours sleep each night due to several deadlines!). Anyway, that makes me happy because I get to hang out with Joan this week - unless, she decides - aghast - to do something without me. For now, she's here and I like it!