Hot Dogs and Dry Grass

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What can you do if you’re a dog and it’s too hot to run around and play? You lie down under a tree and conserve your energy. Make sure the tree is in a place where you can see the back door and the deck, in case there’s any action there, or a chance to come in and have a snack.
Poor Emma looks bored, and Ruby has given up on anything interesting happening. But wait! Something is moving in the trees above.
It’s just a chickadee. Too high up to jump for.

Emma gives it a look. “If it wasn’t so hot, I’d make a leap for you….”

But, yawwwwn … she knows she wouldn’t get it.

Might as well just nap until this dog day of summer is over and the mistress calls us for supper. Sure wish she would have watered the grass though, so it’s not so prickly to lie on.

Grass is dry and breaking off,

It’s dry this summer season.

The mistress turned the water off,

But do you know the reason?

 

It’s not for conservation that

She lets the grass go yellow.

The fact is she is lazy and

Would rather just be mellow.

 

If grass is green it grows a lot,

And then you have to mow it.

The mistress is a lazy sod,

Now all the world will know it.

 

 

 

43 thoughts on “Hot Dogs and Dry Grass”

  3. Pat

    Sounds more wise than lazy to me. Mowing grass in that kind of weather could give you heat stroke. It amazes me that those two furry creatures have not found some shade! Stay cool. 🙂

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    1. wordsfromanneli Post author

      Thanks, Jill. I’m not really that lazy about mowing but we have so many shrubs and fruit trees and the veggie garden that need the water more than the grass, so we always let our grass go brown. To me it’s a waste of water. It would be different if we had a landscaped lot, but our place is quite … well … what you see is what you get.

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        1. wordsfromanneli Post author

          And I’d send you some heat. I know you get plenty of that while we have winter, but you could use some now. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could share it? Oh well, we have to learn to cope with what we’re dealt.

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    1. wordsfromanneli Post author

      Thanks, D. I feel it really is a waste of water but not everyone agrees. It doesn’t matter as long as we have enough, but if there were ever a shortage, I’d be annoyed with people who poured it on their grass. But while supplies last, it will get replenished. That’s what the water cycle is all about.

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  10. Lori

    This is funny. I just drafted a blog for tomorrow about being lazy. LOL. The weather is so strange. It’s been like autumn here last week and continues to be this week. I meant to tell you that on Thursday last week I stepped outside and smelled something burning. I noticed the air was hazy from smoke and the wind had picked up. At first I thought someone’s house was on fire, but no sirens or anything going on in the neighborhood. I got online to see if I could find out anything, and I learned that our weather got cool because winds shifted from the north which blew temps down and Canada wildfires our way. Isn’t that crazy? We had the same haze you posted about on your blog a while ago, all the way over here! We’re more connected than we think.

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    1. wordsfromanneli Post author

      That’s exactly what I went through the first day we got a whiff of the fires that were (and still are) burning hundreds of miles away. I wondered if there was a fire in the neighbourhood. We’ve had clearer weather for the past week or so and then this morning the smoke was back. It’s bad all the way down the coast. The sun was a huge red ball tonight. I felt like I was in one of those science fiction disaster movies. What a summer this has been.

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  16. reocochran

    I would not consider your days as lazy nor unoccupied. It has been hot and humid in our warehouse and I just would like to just relax, but I suppose someday this will happen!
    I liked the way you expressed the dogs’ thoughts and the poem was funny! 😀

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