[Dailydrool] Gracie's yesterday

[Dale Rutz]

Hi all, it's the clueless momPerson here,

My Gracie had her share of adventures yesterday as well.  We, too, were 
concerned she would not survive them, but that was because we were worried 
someone might get mad enough to kick her butt.  It's a good thing she's so cute 
is all I can say.  We are very glad the other Gracie survived her adventures too 
.... and also that her momPerson didn't have a heart attack either.   I think we 
are both prime candidates if this behavior continues!

Whew!!  Yesterday was Yom Kippur.  Everyone at my house was fasting from Sundown 
the night before, no food OR water so by mid day we're going on 20 hours and 
getting pretty darned grumpy.  We all got dressed up and went to services in the 
morning.  Gracie doesn't like it when we get dressed up.  It means we are going 
to leave the house.  So ...... she pee'd on the rug.  ARG!  My daughter is 
starting to call her pee as a weapon girl.  I honestly think it's more a case of 
nerves than Gracie being vengeful, but, what can I say.  So I cleaned up the rug 
and we left for services and came home in the afternoon ...

OMG!!!  What can I say?  First of all she got into my laundry basket and 
scattered what WERE clean clothes all over the living room.  She found a bag of 
halloween decorations and scattered those too, in amounst the clean clothes.  
Well, I was picking all of that up when my elder daughter SCREAMED.  Here is 
what we *think* happened ....

1)  Snoopy goes in Juliannes room all the time.  He usually hunts through her 
backpack looking for food.  Well, she had tossed her backpack onto her bed and 
he often sleeps on her bed so he likely climbed up there and was rooting through 
her backpack.  there were several food wrappers in there.  The backpack wound up 
on the floor.
2)  Gracie joined in the fun because Snoopy was rooting around in there and she 
likes paper.  a LOT
3)  Gracie got a little to excited and chewed up Juliannes Spanish 2 notebook.  
Yup, you read that write.  Not just one assignment.  The whole spiral notebook.  
ALL of her assignments and class notes for the first 6 weeks of the school 
year.  Gone.  Well, not gone exactly, Gracie scattered the shredded paper up and 
down the hallway.

Now, this is the not the first time something like this has happened to 
Julianne.  She had an assignment up in the teachers lounge in gradeschool for 
months.  That morning she had finished her homework on the counter and her 
sister spilled her fathers coffee all over it.  So, her father helpfully put it 
in the microwave to dry it out but that isn't a good idea it turns out because 
notebook paper will spark and it caught fire.  So I wrote a note and attached it 
to the coffee stained, singed homework which read, and I quote, "Please excuse 
Juliannes homework.  Her sister spilled coffee on it and then her father 
accidently set fire to it while trying to dry it out."  Julianne turned it in 
with all the other kids and I guess when the teacher got to that one she just 
let out a yell.  Anyway, this time it wasn't nearly so funny.

And then, to round out the day late in the evening I was in a lounger out back 
and Gracie was laying beside me and Snoopy came up on the other side and Gracie 
snarled and told him to get away from me.  He tried ignoring her and she went 
after him.  I just got out of the way and he flattened her .....stood on her 
screaming his fool head off.  Well I pulled him off of course (no injuries, 
these dogs don't bite thank Dog) and told her she'd pulled just about enough 
stunts today and I let Snoopy go and she turned to him and snarled again ..... 
so he flattened her again and I had to pull him off again and it took a little 
while before they would all lay down nicely together.  Finally LuLu told them 
both that the next false move was getting a good konking ..... and we had no 
more trouble.

More later from the clueless momPerson with Gracie (who hasn't peed where she 
shouldn't nor chewed anything up today .... yet)  and LuLu (who finds being in 
charge a full time job) and Snoopy too (I just can't believe the nerve of this 
little girl basset, I really just can't)
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