Kind of Like a Good Piece of Chocolate

I'm babysitting Gromit this week.  He's eight and a half years old now, and starting to slow down, but he still loves his wander around outside time.  As long as someone is with him, he's quite content to poke around in the back yard.  But if you take your eyes off him for one second too long, he's gone.  Me being the distractable type, yeah, that one second too long thing kind of works for the dog.  Which is to say, yesterday I went on a dog hunt.  How he disappears so completely so fast, I dunno.  But he's talented that way.  He's a good friendly dog and really doesn't get into trouble on his wanderings and he will return, but of course there is the safety from cars and mean people or dogs to consider, so I always go looking when he ambles off.  During yesterday's hunt, I stopped to ask a woman and her young daughter, strangers to me, on their way to school if they'd seen him.  The kind souls understood and were completely ready to mobilize the neighborhood.  I told them if they spotted him or found him, I lived one street over in the intense teal house.  The mother grinned and said, oh, you're the bunny lady.  And the daughter said, "I love that house.  It's my favorite-ist house in the world!"  A short and silly interaction that just feels good.  Here I am thinking I'm nicely unknown in this town, and having seen the looks on people's faces when they see the color of my house that I know it's... well.  Not on the Approved List.  It was a sweet moment that gave me a giggle.

Finding Gromit a few minutes later was also sweet.

Comments

[Norma]

Heh, the crazy teal-house lady. :)

[Cathy]

Glad Gromit is back under your eye - and love the teal and bunny house. Well, yeah. Life is too short to be other then real!!

[Robbyn]

I've always wanted a purple house - and I actually know of one or two :) I also remember an orange house but it has been long since relegated to a more standard color.

Long live personal expression!

Teal sounds very cool, by then way...

[vanessa]

out of the mouth of babes :-)

[Laurie]

A dog's gotta do what a dog's gotta do.

[midnightbunny]

Awww, *HUGS* to you, and to Gromit too.

[Christine]

You need to walk around town with a cape that has the letters "BL" on it. Look out, it's Bunny Lady to the rescue! (cue up cartoon theme song here)

Now would you have a Golden Lasso of Truth? No, wait it would have be a Spinning Wheel of Truth. There you go. Woolybuns to the rescue of dogs in need and if I remember correctly you had a rogue bunny several months ago as well.

:)

[Anne]

Yeah. I've got one like that. Syd will be gone like she's been vaporized given a half-minute. How DO they do that?

PS - And at least they didn't say "Oh! You're the CRAZY bunny lady." Cuz that's something different.