What do retired people do on a HOT holiday in TX? They stay INDOORS, in the air conditioning because they got smarter as they got older. This is how I know we are smarter:
The first 4th of July we were in North Texas [in the mid 70's] we had a family outing for a softball game and picnic in a nearby town. Man, was it HOT. The girls and I found a scrubby little tree in the vicinity of the field and we huddled in the "almost" shade around the ice chest. Husband was playing in the game so we couldn't go home gracefully. [That was then.......now I would drive that car home about the 2nd inning!!!] Well, I don't remember anything about the game or the picnic, but clearly remember on the way home seeing the bank thermometer reading of 107!!! That was crazy!!
This 4th of July it was only 100 and we stayed in all day. Husband read a book and watched an old movie on TV. I played in the sewing room and made a crate blanket for our new dog. Yes, we are expecting a girl any day now!!! She is a 3 year old rescued poodle from a mill. She will be smaller than Domino and brownish red. She will know NOTHING about living in the house with air conditioning, or having to wait for an old person to open the door to go outside to pee/poop, or being able to eat premium kibble anytime. We hope that she will be fairly easy to house train. Some dogs who were "producers" at these mills can have a difficult time adjusting to house training simply because they were never asked to "hold it." And if she was confined to a crate all the time she may not be accustomed to keeping a clean crate. We won't know these things until she gets here. So stay tuned for the adventures of old folks training a new dog. At least she is old enough to sleep through the night...of course we can each get up and let her out during the night since we don't sleep through the night anymore!!!
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