[Dailydrool] LuLu and the green beans and the clueless momPerson

[Dale Rutz]

Hi it's Snoopy here,

I've been trying to keep the peace at our house.  Not an easy task at the 
moment.  The clueless momPerson and LuLu have a difference of opinion.  It is a 
significant difference.  So significant a difference that LuLu slept with 
Natalie last night rather than go to bed with me and the clueless momPerson.  It 
is all LuLu's fault ....

LuLu here ... it is NOT my fault ... I announced it several times ..... if it is 
in the backyard I WILL chew it up ....

Give me BACK that keyboard and YES it IS YOUR fault .... you KNOW how she loves 
her flower beds!!

Ahem.  Excuse me.  Back to my story.  It is true that LuLu never ever under any 
circumstances messes with anything in the house.  She hasn't even had an 
accident in months.  And, she has "announced" multiple times that she feels free 
to mangle anything in the yard.  Including momPerson's little irrigation 
drippers which is annoying .... but the momPerson has been hiding them.  
momPerson is actually very understanding.  She allows for pilferage.  LuLu will 
harvest rasberries left right and center and the momPerson said .... oh ... it's 
ok .... she only gets the ones which are within a couple of feet to the ground.  
Oh yeah?  Ever notice how tall a standing basset is?  How about one who can 
climb the trellis?  The clueless momPerson even made allowances for that.  She 
is willing to share.  And ... mistakes happen.  A few months back I myself went 
to swipe a side shoot off of a broccoli plant and I accidently pulled the whole 
huge plant out of the ground.  So, I did what any self respecting basset would 
do ... I ate the evidence.  Except there was no way to hide the huge gaping hole 
in the flower bed where the plant used to be.  momPerson was EVEN understanding 
about that .... it was an honest mistake and anyway the broccoli was almost 
done.

So, back to the current dilema.  LuLu used to walk right through the flower beds 
and some of them are VERY special (the Ellen J Morris memorial bed and the John 
Wyeth memorial bed .... for her parents .... for example).   The clueless 
momPerson has the beds delimited with river rocks .... which LuLu steps right 
over like they weren't even there.  So the clueless momPerson put in 18 inch 
high little fences .... and Cyrus and I YELL at LuLu if she tries to go over 
them because it upsets the clueless momPerson and she WILL cry.  So that had 
been working.  Until now.  You see, the clueless momPerson plants flowers AND 
vegetables in the same beds .... she thinks it looks nice and it makes for lots 
of fresh produce.  In winter she plants broccoli and snow peas and lettuce.  In 
summer she plants tomatos and cucumbers and lettuce and summer squash and blue 
lake pole beans ..... hold it right there .... did I just type that?  What WAS 
she thinking?  We get those frozen in our bowls twice a day!!!  So she has these 
lovely poles in her favorite flower bed and they have a lush and lovely green 
vine covering them and yesterday LuLu found out 3 things.

1)  They are literally COVERED with green beans
2)  If you grab the vine and pull you can lay the whole pole down on the ground 
OUTSIDE the little fence and eat up a million green beans. 

3)  If you do this the clueless momPerson will get very frustrated with you.  It 
is possible that she will even yell at you.  She will probably cry.  And you 
might end up sleeping with Natalie.

More later from Snoopy (who helped eat the green beans but ONLY after they were 
outside the little fence) 


and LuLu (who already announced to the drool and everyone else (TWICE) that if 
it's in the backyard it's fair game) 

and Cyrus (who wants to assure everyone that a)  he had nothing to do with the 
trouble and b)  he snuggled his momPerson all night and she feels better now) 

and the clueless momPerson too (who managed to get her bean pole back in the 
ground and thinks the plant might be ok)
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