Friday, June 19th

Since today is the my (our) first blog post I'm not really sure how this will go. I'm not great at sticking with things so we will see what the future holds for this blog.

I woke up around 10:30 yesterday to the bathroom rug drug out to the middle of the living room. It was torn to shreds. We did need a new rug however the dogs could have just TOLD us that instead of tearing it to pieces. I am guessing they were sick of waiting on me to wake up so they had to entertain themselves somehow. The brand new throw rug for the front door was also chewed on. Luckily you can't tell.

While hanging out in the TV room I heard a loud crash and I saw doggie feet straight up in the air. Braxton (all 85 pounds of him) was in his bed and the bed collapsed. It scared the pee out of him, literally. I put it back together and tightened the bolts but he has yet to return to the falling bed.

Toni and I didn't do much yesterday. We are old I guess. We drove around town looking for produce stands for the 3rd weekend in a row!! hahaha We were listening to the radio and every single song we heard was annoying. I really think we are becoming the cranky old couple of the neighborhood. We stopped at Big Lots and found quite a bit of cute items that we wanted. The clientele at the store was getting on our nerves so we left pretty quickly. We drove down 92 to Lakeland Highlands road, up South Florida and back to 92 to Nana's Kitchen for dinner. The crowd at Nana's was ridiculously old but the food was fantastic (again I think we are old).

On our way home we realized the dogs were left in the house with no lights on. We hurried home to find Riley out of the hallway. We have baby gates all over our house to keep dogs out of certain areas, however Riley is our climber/jumper/Houdini. We bought a gate to keep all of the dogs out of the TV room but he jumps over the gate so he can lie on the couch. He only does this when we are not home. We came up with the idea to stack two small baby gates in the hallway so he can't jump over them but now instead of jumping the gates he pushed them down. I think we will be fighting a never ending battle of "how can we outsmart the dogs."