Lots of Help

Last night was another success. The girls and I slept together again. We got up a couple times when business called and went right back to bed. They actually managed to go over 5 hours without peeing, Like human babies and trying to get them to sleep through the night. Breakfast time was like yesterday. They ate and ran outside, although I can't be sure if they went outside to poop or to play. They did both. Next lesson: Barking. This isn't going to be easy. They bark at most everything and play off each other. One will bark at something and the other will bark because the first one was barking. And, so it goes.

We were quite happy with our new little patio. However, after the contractor finished and left, we decided we made a small mistake in not having him fill in the voids where the blocks ran along the curving sidewalk. We intended to put mulch or maybe some pea gravel in those spaces, but on second thought we wanted blocks cut to fill the spaces. So, I thought, "I can do that." Well, I can with a little help.

The first help I got was one of the girls grabbed the end of my 100-foot extension cord and went running off. Next one grabbed the waist sash for my work apron as I was trying to tie it. Then, as I placed a block over the first space to mark it for cutting, one stood directly on it, seemingly to say, "Here, let me hold that down for you."

With all that help, we were finished in no time. Well, we stopped work to rest and eat lunch. By then the sun said we'd better not go back to work until later. So, siesta time and the girls were played out...or rather, worked out and were not to be disturbed while they snoozed. Me, too.