What did you just DO

While talking to my dad the other day he said to me, "How come you aren't writing on your blog anymore?" To which I replied, "I write about what kids do at school and it is summer vacation." While I may be on break from the kids I do have two young terriers at home who remind me very much of my students and vice versa. And let me tell you I have plenty stories about the crazy things that they do. One of which just happened now....

I had just gotten home and the door into the garage was open. The dogs got out in to the garage to look around before I got a chance to shut the door and decided to let them explore. I was extremely thirst so I grabbed my glass and began to fill it from the filter on the freezer door. As I stood there filling my glass I watched my pups wander about in the garage. I took a big chug from my glass and began to fill it again. The dogs were now making their way back into the kitchen from the garage. One of my dogs, Chewy, stuck his head under the open door and started trying desperately to grab something. I wondered how long it would take him to figure out that he could go around to the other side of the door to get what he wanted, and then he did just that. He disappeared behind the open door and I heard a rattle. My dogs like to play with many random things, one of which is bottle caps. I thought he had found the plastic cap to a water bottle, but what he found was something entirely different. As I am standing at the refrigerator with my water in hand I see Chewy come around the door and into the kitchen with something much larger than a bottle cap in his mouth. Like an offering, he presents at my feet a dead mouse inside of a mouse trap THAT I NEVER SET. (Please keep in mind that I have been in this house for a year now!) He was so proud of himself that he went back to search for more. I stood there in horror. Then I mustered my courage, grabbed a gardening glove and disposed of the ill-fated mouse.