July 16, 2015,

My life is changing.......a lot and I like it.  I love the group of women I have the privilege of working with and I like my kids.  I love working on my dissertation, especially since it will now be going into the approval stage and data collection yaaaaaaaay!!!!  God is really good!!

God is bringing peace into my life.

Now for a story:

Okay, so my granddaughter's dog had puppies mainly because my daughter doesn't know how to complete tasks on a timely basis.  So her dog got pregnant, had five puppies, one died (very sad) and four have taken over the entire property.....and I think neighborhood.  Anyway, so we have these dogs, there are five altogether with the mother whom has now been fixed after the fact, not quite sure how that helps with the other dogs but ok.  So they are chiwawa mixed with God only knows what.  Oh and God only knows how many different mixes because I think one is a dachshund/chiwawa weird little dude.  Anyway there is this one dog and he is brown and white with abnormally long legs and he stays pretty thin. He crawls up and over the fence, he can jump as high as my shoulders, so I named him Jackalope.  I always called him the Jackalope dog.  So...he made a hole in the fenced with his nose, oh by the way it was chain link so how he did this was just bizarre, but he did.  Then I got a rope and I laced it all through, so he chewed it up.  Then in the middle of the night I put a huge rock in the hole just because he would go through and then all the others would follow.  He took his paws and pushed it through....repeatedly.

 So now to the story since you have all the background.
Last night I was asleep then around 3:00 a.m. I hear noises all around my house.  I hear walking on the side of my home, I hear footsteps in the front.  But what I don't hear are the dogs, usually they bark all night especially if Jackalope crawled over the fence...mostly because they are jealous.  So....I continue to hear steps and then I hear what I believe are voices so I call the police just to have them drive by the house just to do a property check, no big deal.  I turn on my porch light and I look around but I stayed in the house,I saw nothing.  Finally, the police drove by, everything's  quiet and then one of the dogs begin to bark and I realize he's barking out front.  I go outside, all the dogs are everywhere outside they have hauled trash from the neighbors to my front yard and are basically having a party.  I go back inside to get a robe on and I hear them barking and barking, they are chasing weirdos on their bikes down the street with the people yelling at them.  Great 3:00 a.m. entertainment......not!!  I get the dogs in the house I put them out back and I shove a rock in the hole because at 3:00 a.m. there are no stores selling fencing or anything else.  I laid down to hear the huge rock hit the ground and the dogs go running....I give up!!!! I hate the dogs I'm going to sleep.

In the morning my mother pulls up to see the dogs across the street inside my neighbors gated yard just relaxing and enjoying themselves.  Assholes!!!  They come running when they see her and we again put them in the backyard. By now my front yard looks like the dump.  My last resort other than building a 6 foot high brick wall, was chicken wire fence that was recommended.  We put it up against the fence and attached it.

 So far they are in and I just might get some sleep tonight!!!!  Oh and I'm more than positive that the police think I'm a nut...to say the least.