sometimes

sometimes vacations can be exhausting

like this past weekend for example when we went to crossett so my mama and my papa could see their new niece penny and i could see my cousins blizzie and max and noonan

in crossett there are no inside dogs so i have to stay out back with noonan which is only fun for a little while and then everybody goes away and it starts raining and it's cold and muddy and nighttime and no one knows where i am no matter how much i bark

so sometimes i have to escape

and so mama and papa say ok daisy mae you don't have to sleep in the rain and they take me to a strange vet's that smells like being scared and leave me with ladies who put me in a closet in the way back and don't play with me or talk to me or let me go to the bathroom enough so i have to try and escape which doesn't even work except to scrape up my nose

and they tell me that i'm spoiled rotten which means we're not giving you any of the treats your mama left with you

and it seems like mama and papa are never coming back but then they do and they let me chase blizzie and the cows and that's better

mama calls that awful place cultural dissonance

i call it misery

she says sometimes it's good to be out of your element which means it's nice to know how good it feels to be your normal self

here's what

here's what i don't like

when we're driving around in the truck all together and then papa pulls in somewhere and gets out and walks away

because where is he going?

and how do i know if he'll come back?

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COWS

COWS ARE THE BIGGEST DOGS I'VE EVER SEEN

i mean you do not understand they are HUGE

and i went to crossett and i chased them

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every morning

every morning on our walk we see these amazing things

they're like they're like they're like leaves with heads that blow around even when there's no wind and they're called justabirds

and sometimes i swear they are looking at me

and you can never find out where they go because mama won't let you off the leash

and if you're really quick and you catch one it's called justaleaf

i have a new game

i have a new game it's called Escaping

see it turns out that if you are very clever which i am you can wriggle under the wire fence out back and then you are out in the whole world

i am so good at it that every day i advance a level and my mama and my papa have to go out and make obstacles with hammers and nails and logs and big rocks and sometimes it takes me a while but i always figure it out and then i run around the neighborhood and make new friends while mama and papa chase me around cursing

Escaping is a game that segues very nicely into Running Away

sometimes mama and papa can be real sore losers and they are quite short with me when we get home but i tell them it's okay you guys

i still love you