Wa-da-ta, Wa-da-ta...

I tried to watch Pootietang the other day (after hearing RAVE reviews of it from a certain person *ahem*) and I just couldn't do it. I put the nay-no on it. Has anyone ever made it through the whole movie? How?

I'm so sleepy. Maybe I'll have a restful weekend. I'm not sure of anything I have planned. Probably some painting (started another one last weekend and I'm really slow and anal about painting). Need to mow too.

Yesterday as I drove up to my house after work, I saw the little neighbor kid coming back from ringing my doorbell. I asked him what he needed and he said that they had lost two balls in my yard. The last time he came over they had lost 3 balls. Perhaps they should be more careful. But I digress. Anyway, by the time I got back there one of the balls had half of it missing...which means that the other half is probably in one of the dogs' digestive tract somewhere. The other was unscathed. So I told them they needed to be more careful because there was a really good chance that anything they threw over the fence would be destroyed by the dogs. It seems like they enjoy seeing how fast the dogs can destroy their stuff. And yes, I had to answer to "Mary" again. Forever my alter ego, it seems.

There are three other balls in the backyard that I didn't buy. I asked if they belonged to them and they said no. I have no clue where they came from. It's amazing how many things that don't belong to me can make it into a 6 foot wooden privacy fence. Mystifying. People probably throw stuff at them to shut them up when I'm not there!

This morning I was going to be nice and let Mercy back in after she went out to do her business, so I walked out on the patio with a bowl of dog food so I could throw little pieces of it for Butter to go find to pacify her. But Mercy is aware of the "Hey look over there!" trick wherein I throw food or treats out to make them run outside so I can get them out of the house. And she no longer falls for it. So she was paranoid that that was what I was going to do and stood by the back door the whole time.

My dogs are smarter than me.