Sunday morning, another fall day after heavy rains, the back yard looked as if hurricane Ike had paid a visit!!! We could put up a sign saying "Maggie's yard sale" but we know she'd take great exception to having any of her treasures sold off!!! So instead we get the garbage can out and begin the task of eliminating the past week's household foraging....three single socks, none of them matching, sales receipts whisked from the counter top, amply chewed, now sodden from the rains and night dew, an unclaimed insole from a random shoe, a shoe strap from another of yesterday's shoes, scattered bones repeatedly the item of the day, feverishly worked on, buried, resurrected, diligently brought into the house for our approval, returned to the back yard hoping some night marauder would confiscate them, bits of wood from goodness knows where in all sizes, shapes and degrees of annihilation; the list goes on!!!!!
Back in the kitchen, working on a week's supply of pancake making when it dawns on me that our royal highness is no where to be seen. Hhhmmmm, "Maggie" "Maggie" "MAGGIE!!!".....nothing but silence. The gate to the living room is still in place as is the one for the stairway. Basement...no, garage.....no, front yard....no, back yard ......no???? Repeated calling in the back yard, a look over the fence into our neighbor's yard (reference The Fence parts one and two!!!) and still no Maggie??? Then from the Dixons' side of the fence, I hear the jangle of her dog tags. The kids are dispatched to return her to our yard and survey where she escaped from. Brendan returns to say he can't find any place where the escape happened. Finishing pancake making, I venture out to check the fence and come up empty.
Meanwhile, Maggie's happy to be back in familiar surroundings, lavishing all the attention, smiling at the fuss being shown her, indicating we've missed wiping one of her paws and now is in full play mode which brings a collective sigh from all of us!!!
Still perplexed at her latest undertaking in life, I go out and check the gate on one side of the house and the under construction partition of the fence on the other side of the house and find all is secure. It dawns on me then that our mischievous one has taken her departure once more!!! Looking more closely at the fence on the Dixons' side, I'm left wondering if at the back where all the blackberry vines are, has she somehow ferreted through to make her escape??? Pruning shears and a machete in hand, I attack the bramble with great passion (reminiscent of the prince in Sleeping Beauty readying himself to take on Malificent and save his princess!!!) ( okay, now that is funny!!!!) and sure enough as the vines are whacked and hacked away, there lying exposed is a hole in the fence large enough to accomodate the latest getaway!!!
Hammer, nails, multiple boards and a rather large chunk of concrete from the construction part of the fence has the yard secure once more!!! Her nibs having been recaptured and closed in until all was complete, came bounding out, immediately surveyed the newest addition to the fence, employed her nose to sniff out any possibility of a weakness in the now wall that met her and moved on to play at other things!!!
I have total assurance as surely as the blackberry vines will overtake that portion of our yard again, Maggie will find yet another means to challenge her nemesis.....the fence!!! :)
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