July 12, 2010

Two days and three nights later, I smell Mamaw about 10:00 a.m. and I hear Poppy’s voice in the office of this LOCKUP place. Or…am I dreaming? I’m wet as he** cause I just had a bath! I’ll bet Poppy is worryin about the cost of this joint while Mamaw just wants to see me. Well, they called back to have them bring me to the front like I was a piece of meat or somethin just to find out I was all wet! Mamaw and Poppy, almost at the same time, said we’ll go ahead and take her that way. Oh my gosh, when I saw them I was happy, happy, happy. And Mamaw couldn’t get her hands on me fast enough. We all tried really, really hard not to get “mushy” but it was hard not to. Goodbye everybody—thanks for the memories—I’m goin home with my family!

And home we went. Mamaw was scurryin around to get towels to dry me and her blow dryer too. I was so happy, I just rolled and rolled on the carpet and towels. We got me pretty dry and then she thought I’d better get outside (cause ya know, I like to hold it long as I can away from home). Well, I peed immediately and pooped two times! Yeah man, I had to go…by then Mamaw thinks we should walk so she gets that IPod shuffle and my poop sack and away we go. At first I’m not doin so good but she corrects and corrects till I remember what I’m supposed to do. Had a really nice walk too. Saw a bunch of old guys playin tennis at the tennis court. And then she takes the gate and puts it up on the front deck and drags me out there.
She 's complainin pretty loud as she picks up those crazy little crab apples sayin under her breath, “I thought they said by spraying the tree it wouldn’t give off fruit. So what do they know…” And then it started to sprinkle so I got saved from disgrace.

The washing machine and dryer are runnin constantly cause Mamaw has their own laundry and she went to see Miss Betty to get hers. While she was gone Poppy and I took little naps in preparation for her need to work, work, work. And, I was right—she’s back and runnin around makin us crazy! She worked so fast and furious she needed to go lay down for a while. I think she took a little nap cause it was quiet for a while. I went from Poppy to Mamaw—dividin my time between em.

And then, just as we were wakin up, I heard car keys! I hopped off that waterbed so fast I almost dumped Mamaw and ran to the door. Poppy wants to go for a ride—and I wanna be on the bus! Mamaw hops up too and we’re out the door. And what a wonderful ride it was too. Poppy just drives us everywhere. And sittin on Mamaw’s lap was devine. From time to time I tip my head back to see her and other times I lay my head on her shoulder. It is wonderful to be back home.

I asked Mamaw if I was so naughty they put me in LOCKUP? She said no…but you kinda have to wonder don’t ya? I’m gonna try so danged hard to stay out of trouble now. I don’t want to go back there for a long time. Mamaw said, “Now Scarlett, you didn’t go to the kennel cause you were BAD—you went cause Poppy and I wanted to go to his 50 year class reunion and we couldn’t take you.” “Well,” I asked, “did ya have fun?” They said they did and they’ve talked a little about photos and stuff so I’ll just let it go. I’m home—nothing more important than that.

Now—we are all tired. The TV in the living room doesn’t have a picture for some reason so we’re goin to the bedroom and watch some shows. We’ll probably just fall asleep so maybe I should just say goodnight now.