Dogless day

Their mistress was home, thus I didn't need to go over to air them. She called and expressed her gratitude for my services; yet they were still crazy enough to have chewed a large hole in a couch yesterday before she got home in the early afternoon. Evidently they'd eaten a lot of the stuffing, and were suffering gastric distress; puppies.
Much scurrying around to insure we have sufficient stores of sustenance for tomorrow's dinner, including vegan items for the previously mentioned dog owner. We few proud omnivores have a bitty turkey to chew upon, and she gets tofu and a rutabaga.
My back seems to have survived the dragging of the tree last evening, and the tree is breathing right now in its stand. It too is none the worse for its liberation from abandonment, and only needs a dressing of lights and ornaments to fulfill its destiny.
It is creeping closer to midnight, the little tree is resplendant with some of our ornament collection, nothing too close to the bottom where the pups might grab them to chew upon, and we are winding down from a visit by a few of ours on's friends, two brothers and one of their girlfriends. Terrific and energetic young ones.