Manna Barking From Heaven

You know this whole blogging adventure is just that: an adventure.

You never know what will inspire you to write the silly or sad, happy or mad, or just plain quirky things that happen in your life.

I live for the quirky.

And the humorous.

Hence, I always look at life with the cup one-third-full of laughter and quirkiness. (Half cup is too typical and expected. I am atypical.) *smile*

It works for me.

I highly recommend it.

I have mentioned previously that I keep a blog notebook and jot down ideas for future blog posts.

I still do that.

Some ideas will probably never come to fruition. Sometimes I will reread an idea and think to myself, "And....?"

Lucky for you those shall remain in the notebook unless I can twist it into a funny.

But what I love are those days when blog fodder falls upon you like manna from heaven.

Recently, blog manna was bestowed upon me.



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(faint barking heard)

"Darn... (yawn) that dog! Somebody shut (double yawn) her up please?"

*snore*

(one minute later)

"Dang it. She's still at it. I'm soooo tired. It's not even 6:00 am! The neighbors are gonna get upset. Won't that dog shut-up?"

(one minute later)

"All right, all right! I'm getting up. Where are my specs? Drat, I gotta take a pee first."

(sitting on pot)

(dog barking)

"Guvvie! Be quiet!"

Of course she can't hear me, she's an almost 17-year-old dog who has cataracts and has gone deaf. I plan on going outside to shut her up, but I will have to get her attention and use sign language. (Don't worry the sign language doesn't involve the use of any middle fingers. *smile*)

(still barking)

"All right!"

I shuffle down the hallway through the dining room to the back door. I open it and step out. Now where is the culprit? She's got to be close to the RV gate. She probably saw a shadow and now thinks somebody is trying to break and enter into our lovely backyard.

(Quirky rolls her eyes.)

I scan the yard and burst out laughing.

I ran back inside and grabbed my cell-phone. No time to dig out the digital camera. I quickly turn it on and switch it to camera mode. I click away.

Guvvie is still barking through all of this.

I'm still laughing.

Because this is what I saw:


Now I understood why she wouldn't stop barking.

Her head was stuck inside the bag!

She was barking for help.

I performed the operation with the utmost care. I gently removed the "growth" from her head and she was free!

I gave her relief from her dog food bag prison.

But what she gave me? It was precious manna from heaven.

And I said a prayer of thanks for the blog manna, erm, I mean, fodder.

It was hilariously heavenly!

*ruff*









B.S. Guvvie was not harmed during the production of this post. I removed the bag and she briskly ran inside for some water and then plopped down for a good rest. I'm sure the neighbors did too!