January 20, 2011

Poppy is home today—I hope to beg for a ride in the car. It didn’t take very long this morning though, to figure out that my nose smelled a RAT. Mamaw came out of the bedroom wearing “gaddin about” clothes so I knew she wasn’t goin to be cleanin house in those! And Poppy came out smellin just delicious with his fragrance and I’m thinking—maybe we are travelin today!!! WRONG…She started HIS car and away she went.

When she got back she said, “Miss Scarlett, just be thankful you didn’t have to get your boobs flattened. I didn’t get that so she had to share with me that it was time for her yearly mammogram. That’s where they check to make sure there isn’t something growin in there that could make you sick. I asked her if she was okay for another year and she told me they said if they needed her to come back they would call. Otherwise, she would get a report back in about a week. Well, I’m glad for her that THAT is done. And I’m gonna be real careful not to bump her today too!


Then Poppy started HER car and he was on his way. “Hey Mamaw, what’s goin on today anyhow,” I asked her. He’s takin my car to see a fella about how much he would charge to fix my parking lot hit and run. They weren’t at all happy with the cost of the estimate from Ford.

I was just so excited when I saw Mamaw get my short leash out of the closet cause then I KNEW I was goin in the car…only thing is, I only made it to PetSmart. I ran right back to LeeAnn and Mamaw was tryin to get me some exercise but I couldn’t find any interest in searchin for the leftovers underneath the shelving. I was ready to see Miss LeeAnn. She was happy to see me too! So I got a haircut and all the groomers made over me as usual and hey, it was kinda nice. It takes a long time to get me done don’t ya know? My ears take forever to dry…so that gives mt Mamaw a chance to run some errands and “have a little FREE TIME she calls it.”

She drove down to visit where Miss Becky works and says they have very “high end” eyewear there. She looked around and visited with the ladies but didn’t stay too long; after all, they were working. I wonder how many times a week Mamaw goes to HyVee for heaven’s sake. When she came to pick me up I could tell she’d been to the beauty shop to have her brows and “her whiskers” (that’s what she calls her upper lip) waxed and she was red as a beet! And when we got home, she had a salad for her dinner. Must be time to get serious about this diet again…when she tried on one outfit today she didn’t like how she looked and told that to me and Poppy—she changed clothes and Poppy and I were smart enough to kept our mouth’s shut!

I hate it when Poppy has meetings to go to in the evening and Mamaw and I have to stay home and wait for him. I can quite get settled down cause every noise I hear I’m hopin its him. She likes it though—she says she can watch anything on TV she wants to without interruption. When he got home, I cuddled right up to him and stuck to him like GLUE. I think I was still there in the morning—you’ll have to ask him bout that.