Day 48

Tonight was the first time I have ever mowed the grass in our very own front yard! I had all intentions to take a great shot of this, but then this story came along.... and it was too priceless to pass up.

While mowing the small front yard we have, I came across 4 large land-mines. Now, we don't have a dog, but our next door neighbor has 3 large dogs and 2-3 puppies. Another one of these puppies now lives across the street from us. Knowing who the culprit was isn't the point. I just am in disbelief that when your dog goes in someone else's yard, you just leave it..... So after mowing I get out our shovel and do some clean up. The second I put the shovel away start to go inside our house I see the puppy from across the street leap over into our yard in her cute puppy way.... and starts sniffing.... I knew what was next. To make it even better, the dad is out mowing his yard while the kids {probably ages 4, 6 and 7} are riding their bikes around the cul-de-sac. {Side note: dad likes to mow his tiny front yard with a riding lawn mower... this makes for an even better story} This cute puppy finds her spot and starts leaving us a new fresh even larger land-mine. Now the kids come over and watch her. Then I hear the kids telling each other how cute she is and how funny it is to watch her. All while dad is still just mowing the yard. I am standing there, waiting for her to finish because I know dad is not going to clean this up. Finally dad sees me noticing this is happening so what does he do? He rides his riding lawn mower across the street while yelling at the kids to yell at the dog to make her stop. So the kids are yelling at the dog to stop and dad is yelling at the kids... oh happy day. I figure this was enough for me so I go inside. About 30 minutes later the kids come out of the garage with one paper towel in each hand. They are going to clean it up!! With one hand plugging their nose, the older 2 kids made about 5 trips from our yard to their trash and back cleaning up after this dog.... no wait, it gets better... while doing this, their cute puppy then comes back in our yard and leaves ANOTHER ONE!!! What do they feed this puppy??? So again, the kids start yelling at her, then dad comes outside and yells at them to tell the puppy to stop.... THEN mom comes out and starts yelling at dad for yelling at the kids because she has NO IDEA what is going on. She comes across into our yard and then, oops, steps right in the first pile that the kids thought they had finished cleaning up. Priceless.... of course, then the family goes back home leaving both land-mines for us to clean up later.... What an evening... 

I managed to get a shot of the kids picking up though our window. If you look close, you can tell the boy has his nose plugged.