A Young Wife’s Tale

You may recall that I started knitting. Henry, our lab/shepherd mix loves soft things like stuffed animals and pillows. Loves them to pieces. So when I was knitting, he kept trying to get the yarn. I guess he got the message that he couldn’t play with the yarn because he chewed up the knitting needles instead.

We think our house is being cased. Bad guys must think our house is vacant since it has a For Sale sign in the front yard. They seem to overlook the open blinds, dog in the yard, car in the driveway and lights on inside the house. Friday night, a vehicle pulled up in front of our house at about eleven o’clock. They sat there with their lights on for thirty minutes. Truly, they just sat there. They never got out of their car, or turned on their interior lights to look at a map.

David and I rescued Henry from an animal shelter last year. We love him so much.  He’s been so good for us. Henry motivates David to keep moving even though he’s hurting. Henry is a great guard dog. He always lets us know when someone is approaching our house. He tries to jump through the [...]

Most people have keys to their house. I don’t. I have a garage door opener. With our house on the market, my key is in a lock box on the front door. A garage door opener doesn’t work if the power is out. So Henry and I sat in my car until David got home and unlocked the door. We talked to the neighbors that live behind us. They said that Henry had not been happy about the storm. They said he was pacing on the porch and growling and the storm. He was pretty upset. So upset, that David and I couldn’t get him to get out of the car for ten minutes. We pulled and pushed and finally got him to come inside. We dried him off and gave him a milk bone. He was still pretty upset.

We rescued him from our the pound when he was three months old. I bought him for David as an anniversary present. So David thinks Henry is his puppy. But I know he’s mine.