[Dailydrool] Miss Angela's August

[bjenk1 at cox.net]

Bill here, press agent/personal trainer to Miss Angela Basset, Droop and Drool Diva of Wichita and Sedgwick County

Yesterday, a minivan whipped off the main street through our neighborhood and a woman jumped out to ask if she could lavish some lovin' on Angela.  Turns out her basset Abbie (or Flabbigail, since she weighed 90 pounds)  had died last summer and she was in serious need of a little snooter kiss or two.  Angela was happy to oblige.  I didn't bother to tell the nice lady that Angela was using her as an excuse to rest about a mile and a quarter into our morning walk.  Of course, I could have added that walks like this would have prolonged Abbie's life,  but I held my tongue.  Angela didn't.  She has trouble controlling her licker and spread drool all over the lady's feet.  

With the heavy media saturation of the new movie Julie/Julia, I have noticed how much Angela's vocalizations resemble Meryl Streep's characterization of Julia Child.  The sound Miss Angela makes when our neighbor is outside and she wants to go say hello is almost identical to some of the exclamations by Meryl/Julia.  Of course, Meryl Streep has long been one of Miss Angela's role models and icons.  She admires the perkiness from Silkwood, the pensive thoughtfulness of Sophie's Choice and the take charge attitude from
The Devil Wears Prada.   Now it's the gleeful squeal of Julie/Julia.

On a couple of occasions in the last ten days, Miss Angela has declined to accompany me on the morning walk.  She really hates the heat here in a Kansas summer and prefers stretching out on the couch under the ceiling fan or on the cool of the ceramic tile in the kitchen.  The downside of this, naturally, is that her normal "empty yourself out all over the neighbor's yards"
routine is disrupted.  She puts off doing her "serious business" until it is absolutely necessary.  Normally this is not a problem, but on two occasions in the last ten days--coinciding ominously with her refusal to walk--- she made a deposit just inside the back door.  Of course, both of these mornings, I slept in longer than usual.  Maybe she tried to wake me and I was just too deeply asleep, but she just hit her limit and did her "serious business"  inside.

With the increased heat and prolonged periods on the couch, she is beginning to smell "houndy" well in advance of her regular monthly spa appointment.  I guess I will have to schedule her a combination day care visit and spa afternoon for sometime early next week.  

Miss Angela sends copious slimy special drool to those in need and rejoices in Morse's recovery. 

Bill (Indonesia was cooler than Kansas, and not much more humid)
Angela (Shut up and turn the ceiling fan up a notch)