Cinder & Smoke
05-06-2008, 08:23 PM
I'll start (I 'm hard to embarrass! :p )
Yup, Lost Another Dawg today! :rolleyes:
It all started last night when DUMM Me forgot to close the garage door.
No harm, no foul, or so I thought.
Today we didn't *go* anywhere, so I never noticed it was UP ~ till mid-afternoon.
Bipp & Bopp (aka Cinder & Smokey, aka Clipp & Clopp) were ditty-boppin around in
the yard down by the pond. Cinder trotted up the front yard and *bumped* her way
in via the half-latched front door and flopped under the 'puter.
SmokeMutts looked up from the edge of the pond and saw Cinder moving fast,
so he *dashed* up the pond bank to see where she was headed.
He guessed wrong and made a mad dash toward the garage - but never slowed down
for what I *assumed* was the CLOSED garage door! OMG! WHERE'd he GO?? ... GONE!
I went out on the porch and peered over & down to the garages ...
OOPSIE! One door down, one door UP!
About then Smokey wandered out of the garage and looked up at me with a curious
"Where's Cinder?" look ... and ambled out toward the old Dawg House.
Not planning on a Bus Trip today, I thunk maybe I otta CLOSE the garage
before I forgot and left it open two nights in a row. I headed toward the
upstairs *buttons* beside the dining room windows.
Double Check - Where's SmokeMutts?
In the clear - between the Dawg House and the brush pile - headed to the brush pile.
*PUNCH*
<RUMBLE> and down comes the garage door. All is well.
A moment later I noticed the sliding door curtain moving ... a sure sign that
the Little Kid has come in and climbed into his Sauna - between the slider and the curtain -
to bake in the afternoon sun. I wandered by and closed the front door.
Back to the puter ... HEY ~ Where's Cinder?
NUTZ! ... She prolly wandered back out when Smokey "came in"!
Back out on the porch to *HOLLER* for Cinder ... CINDER!!
"WHADDA ya WANT? ~~~ Quit wiffa durn Hollerin!"
:eek:
The BIG Mutt is standing BEHIND me - inside the Ranch!
How can this be? ... So, where's your lil Brudder?
I got a Blank Stare. ... SMOKEY!!
The silence was deafening.
What the ... he was just over there in his Sauna ...
I gave the BigMutt a reassuring *PAT* onna head ... HEY - your head's HOT!
Hmmmmmmm ... ! + 2 + 3 = We're short one dawg! SMOKEY!!
HOW can this be?
Now, why's HER head so hot??
I looked in the Sauna ... he's NOT in there!
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = CINDER was in the Sauna ... so, WHERE's the Little Guy??
Did HE slip outside? We searched inside the Ranch - under the BigBed, the puter ... "everywhere".
Back on the Frunt Porch ... SMOKEY!! <silence>
The BigMutt lay down beside me with a very *DEEP SIGH* and a Head Tilt ...
I began 10 solid minutes of *HOLLERIN* for our Now MISSING Dawg!
After a hasty Chat wiff God, I decided we'd put some hard feet on and jump
into the Rescue Bus for a search up & down the road.
We were headed for the cellar steps when I looked at my "Assistant" ...
and remember how she'd *got lost in the GARAGE* a month ago ...
OH, he's not THAT DUMM, is he?
We headed to the dining room *buttons* ...
<PUNCH>
<RUMBLE> and the door started to rise ...
:eek:
A grey STREAK ***DASHED*** out of the garage and tore grass to sprint
up to the front door and delivered a Two-Pawed **KNOCK** for entry!
Hi, Bub!
Everything OK down in the garage?
Don't you know how to <**BARK**> ??
:rolleyes:
Memo to Self: Check the Garage, Dummie!
PS: THANKS, God!!
:o
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/s/ Dumm Dad
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OK ~ Jump In ~ Let's hear about YOUR DUMM Stunt Tails!
Yup, Lost Another Dawg today! :rolleyes:
It all started last night when DUMM Me forgot to close the garage door.
No harm, no foul, or so I thought.
Today we didn't *go* anywhere, so I never noticed it was UP ~ till mid-afternoon.
Bipp & Bopp (aka Cinder & Smokey, aka Clipp & Clopp) were ditty-boppin around in
the yard down by the pond. Cinder trotted up the front yard and *bumped* her way
in via the half-latched front door and flopped under the 'puter.
SmokeMutts looked up from the edge of the pond and saw Cinder moving fast,
so he *dashed* up the pond bank to see where she was headed.
He guessed wrong and made a mad dash toward the garage - but never slowed down
for what I *assumed* was the CLOSED garage door! OMG! WHERE'd he GO?? ... GONE!
I went out on the porch and peered over & down to the garages ...
OOPSIE! One door down, one door UP!
About then Smokey wandered out of the garage and looked up at me with a curious
"Where's Cinder?" look ... and ambled out toward the old Dawg House.
Not planning on a Bus Trip today, I thunk maybe I otta CLOSE the garage
before I forgot and left it open two nights in a row. I headed toward the
upstairs *buttons* beside the dining room windows.
Double Check - Where's SmokeMutts?
In the clear - between the Dawg House and the brush pile - headed to the brush pile.
*PUNCH*
<RUMBLE> and down comes the garage door. All is well.
A moment later I noticed the sliding door curtain moving ... a sure sign that
the Little Kid has come in and climbed into his Sauna - between the slider and the curtain -
to bake in the afternoon sun. I wandered by and closed the front door.
Back to the puter ... HEY ~ Where's Cinder?
NUTZ! ... She prolly wandered back out when Smokey "came in"!
Back out on the porch to *HOLLER* for Cinder ... CINDER!!
"WHADDA ya WANT? ~~~ Quit wiffa durn Hollerin!"
:eek:
The BIG Mutt is standing BEHIND me - inside the Ranch!
How can this be? ... So, where's your lil Brudder?
I got a Blank Stare. ... SMOKEY!!
The silence was deafening.
What the ... he was just over there in his Sauna ...
I gave the BigMutt a reassuring *PAT* onna head ... HEY - your head's HOT!
Hmmmmmmm ... ! + 2 + 3 = We're short one dawg! SMOKEY!!
HOW can this be?
Now, why's HER head so hot??
I looked in the Sauna ... he's NOT in there!
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = CINDER was in the Sauna ... so, WHERE's the Little Guy??
Did HE slip outside? We searched inside the Ranch - under the BigBed, the puter ... "everywhere".
Back on the Frunt Porch ... SMOKEY!! <silence>
The BigMutt lay down beside me with a very *DEEP SIGH* and a Head Tilt ...
I began 10 solid minutes of *HOLLERIN* for our Now MISSING Dawg!
After a hasty Chat wiff God, I decided we'd put some hard feet on and jump
into the Rescue Bus for a search up & down the road.
We were headed for the cellar steps when I looked at my "Assistant" ...
and remember how she'd *got lost in the GARAGE* a month ago ...
OH, he's not THAT DUMM, is he?
We headed to the dining room *buttons* ...
<PUNCH>
<RUMBLE> and the door started to rise ...
:eek:
A grey STREAK ***DASHED*** out of the garage and tore grass to sprint
up to the front door and delivered a Two-Pawed **KNOCK** for entry!
Hi, Bub!
Everything OK down in the garage?
Don't you know how to <**BARK**> ??
:rolleyes:
Memo to Self: Check the Garage, Dummie!
PS: THANKS, God!!
:o
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/s/ Dumm Dad
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OK ~ Jump In ~ Let's hear about YOUR DUMM Stunt Tails!