Dress Rehearsal or Houdini

I drove to PB cemetery and parked just past LITTLE ROSE'S GRAVE and walked Romeo and Lulu in the sunshine. There's still a lot of snow on the ground and I feared getting stuck in the cemetery. There were beautiful Bruegel views of the pond. When I came home I thought my reading glasses had fallen out of my pocket because I had put them accidentally in my big blue sweatshirt and tried to remember to place them in a safe spot when I came home. After I settled the dogs I checked and they were not in my pocket or my bag. I panicked. I'll go back and look in the cemetery Maybe they fell out.

I carried Lulu downstairs and crated her and raced back to Precious Blood Cemetery walking retracing my steps and then just walking everywhere because I couldn't remember the route we took. Then after searching in and around the car, under the seats and trunk I was convinced the glasses must be home. 

 

When I arrived home I opened the back door I could hear I Lulu barking. Today is day 3, and I had not yet heard her bark! When I went into the hallway she greeted me! She had escaped her crate even though it is STILL LOCKED. She  must've pushed the door and Houdini'd her way and then went thru the curtain and all the boxes of our stuff. There's a slight scratch on her face I just put hydrogen peroxide on it. 

 

Okay so now I know she's a HOUDINI! She also pooped under the basement clothesline. Which was also a surprise but no big deal.  I cleaned it up and lit incense. Okay so now I am afraid she could hurt herself with this crate. 

 

Oh and after all of that my glasses were right where I left them when I came in from the walk but just HIDDEN under a striped shirt I had put on Lulu under her coat and then took it off at the cemetery.

 

She's exhausted and so am I. As long as we can keep her safe when I am not in the house I will feel a lot better. I have to go back to feeding her in the crate. I forgot about that. I want her to feel good about it. 

 

I still carry her down the cellar stairs because the curve frightens her. I take her halfway down and she's fine. 

 

She also must've sensed my TOTAL PANIC about my glasses. 

 

Dress rehearsal. 

 

I was not gone long. We'll work on this.