June 24, 2010

Mamaw is startin to irritate me—she’s at the computer all the time. I know she’s workin to get the blog goin but for Lord’s sake! I need some attention…In fact—here she is just click, click, clicking away and Poppy doin the dishes and I KNOW Ozzie is outside. I want out too! Poppy didn’t hear or didn’t care and Mamaw was workin—I made my “Ozzie voice” the first ime; no response. I did my “Ozzie voice” the second time and she got that! Rush, rush, rush to get me hooked up and out. We walked down to the trail where Ozzie was and believe me, it was like I hadn’t seen the guy in a hundred years! I was so excited…But sometimes Ozzie likes to act like he’s ignorin me (I think that’s a ploy, don’t you?) I just keep right on like I don’t know that’s what he’s doin. It’s wonderful—I wish Becky didn’t work so we could have these walks mornings and evenings. (sad)

Mamaw has to go to Jefferson this afternoon. Her niece is having a garage sale of all her sisters’ things. She wants to see what she can’t live without and bring it home for her memories. I think it might end up being a sad day all around.

She was gone a long time—and dragged stuff in the house that “spooked” me. She’s very quiet. I wonder what happened in her world? And she brought in Betty’s clean laundry—that means she didn’t go see her. This is disturbing…Poppy is just waitin for her to say something. I’m just waitin for her to pay a little attention to me. She heads for the office and stays there a while. Poppy said we need to give Mamaw some space—somethin is eatin at her.

“Alright Scarlett, why don’t we go for a walk,” she asks me. Do you think for one minute I’m gonna say ‘no thanks’ when she’s in this kind of mood? You gotta be kiddin me! It’s a quiet walk but we’re doin it. And then we see Pepper. Steve was just walkin him. I went to see him but he thinks he’s too good for me today—he just had a bath today. Well, law-de-daw and all of that crap. We’ll just go home then—come on Mamaw.

And so let’s just lay low tonight and let this neighborhood mood pass…hope you feel better about things tomorrow Mamaw.