DOGGONE IT

This morning my next-door-neighbor's dog started barking right outside my bedroom window at 7:34 a.m. Luckily I was already awake and dressed, which is normally not the case at that hour. Still, that didn't stop me from thinking about all the other times the dog has woken me up at that hour when I wasn't up and dressed.

Then this evening I thought it would be a good idea to take a little cat nap (with my cat, of course, who never wakes anybody up but me) before going out tonight, so I went in and laid down next to the cat. I was at that point where you don't really realize you've drifted off to sleep until something wakes you up, when sure enough, there went the neighbor's dog, right outside my window. And it's one of those small dogs with the yippy bark that everyone's really afraid of.

I immediately had this thought while laying there in bed: I should include in my blog how many times a day, if any, my neighbor's dog has woken me up. And then, as this thought was still in my head, my phone rang, which would have woken me anyway. And who was it? It was my neighbor, the one with the dog. I told him that it was ironic that if his dog hadn't just woken me up, he would have with his phone call. Then he said he wasn't at home, and didn't know his dog was barking. To which I said, "if a dog barks and you're not home to hear it, does it really bark? Why yes, yes it does."

So, today the dog tally is two and counting...