Cool Runnings With Sinatra

Me and my bestest girl finished our chores and got in a pretty decent run this beautiful Independence Day.

Sinatra: Why are you putting milk on the building?

Me: It isn’t milk, it’s paint.

Sinatra: Is it yummy?

Me: Nope- it would make you sick.

Sinatra: Why are you putting it on the building?

Me: So it will make the building look better and last longer.

Sinatra: Can you put some on me?

Me: No way! You are beautiful just the way you are.

Sinatra: I want to last longer too.

Me: If we keep doing what we’re doing I think we’ll be just fine.

Sinatra: Good, but maybe I should put some on you just in case. You look kinda bad.

Me: I’m fine.

Sinatra: Nah, let me just slap a little on your hair, it’s been getting a little lighter lately.

Me: No, I’m good really. It’s probably your fault anyway.

Sinatra: Don’t put that evil on me Ricky Bobby!

Me:💀💀
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Sinatra: So, what’s going to happen when we tear down the old fence.

Me: We will put up a new one.

Sinatra: Do I get to potty in the neighbor’s yard.

Me: No! I’ll have to take you out on a leash until the new one is done.

Sinatra: Why? I won’t run away.

Me: It’s not so much that, but they have a lot of things in their yard I don’t want you getting into.

Sinatra: How bout I only eat three of their things. Deal?

Me: That’s not a good deal.

Sinatra: Ok. How bout I only eat five of their things.

Me: That’s an even worse deal than your last one. Sinatra:

Ok, how about this, you let me come out here without my leash and I promise to only destroy half their stuff. Deal?

Me: I don’t think you understand the way good deals work.

Sinatra: Yeah, you should probably just keep me on a leash out her until we get the new fence up.

Me: Good idea.

Sinatra: I should probably just stick to coming up with good ideas.

Me: Mmmhmm.

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It’s really great when the roads are all fixed up and new and stuff. You know what’s not great? Road work. It scares the hell out of Sinatra. All the trucks and loud noises really freak her out. We do try to avoid it as much as possible, but we still get near some of it. She’s a real trooper though.

Sinatra: Why are they tearing up the road?

Me: So they can replace the old broken pieces with new pieces.

Sinatra: Why does it have to be so loud.

Me: Sometimes things are just loud.

Sinatra: It smells bad too.

Me: Yeah, it’s not great is it?

Sinatra: No. Loud and stinky. Like Monet.

Me: She’s not loud.

Sinatra: You don’t sleep next to her at night! She snores almost as loud as you!

Me: Sorry about that.

Sinatra: It’s ok. Hey- can we go get in that dump truck?

Me: I don’t think so. Why?

Sinatra: I want to see if they have any treats in there, and maybe we can just turn it off and I can eat the keys.

Me:🙄🙄

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Sinatra: Let’s speed up and catch the little hooman!

Me: I’m trying! She’s on a bike!

Sinatra: It only has 2 wheels.

Me: That’s not a good argument. She can pedal faster than I can run.

Sinatra: Hurry, she’s getting too far!

Me: She’s only 10 feet away!

Sinatra: I have to be beside her.

Me: Why?

Sinatra: Just in case she needs to give me pets and scritches.

Me: She can’t pet you and ride at the same time.

Sinatra: Oh. I still want to be closer.

Me: Ok, why?

Sinatra: Cause she’s my favorite little hooman and I gotta keep her safe.

Me: That’s sweet.

Sinatra: Plus, she shares her snacks with me.

Me: I know she does, even when you already had snacks.

Sinatra: Can’t have too many snacks. Except for Monet. She’s chubby.

Me: She’s an old puppy, almost fourteen years old!

Sinatra: Yeah, she’s too old and mean for snacks anyway. Wait for me little hooman!

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On today’s edition of ‘Cool Runnings With Sinatra’: She kept a great pace considering how distracted she was for the first mile and a half. She tried to make friends with Krispy the German Shepherd/Chocolate Lab mix, but he told her to keep her distance in not so many nice words. Then she met Butch the 10 month old Beagle who wasn’t too interested in her. She found a fresh snack left behind by Gary the goose and she just couldn’t help herself… so she helped herself. After her usual unannounced potty break she settled in for the rest of the run, and even had the audacity to look at me like I was slowing her down. She’s a sassy husky like that.

Sinatra: Let’s pick up the pace!

Me: Yeah, well, as soon as you’re done with all your shenanigans we will.

Sinatra: Ok, I’m done.

Me: Good, you sure?

Sinatra: Yes. Hey, what’s that?

Me: *Looks right* What?

Sinatra: *Slurp* Nevermind.

Me: Did you just…? So gross.

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Scatter! Scatter! Scatter! Hahahahaha! That’s what I imagine she is saying when we run through the gaggles of geese in our path. Today was a little different though. Halfway into our run, there were six or seven geese about 100 feet ahead of us in our path. They saw her coming and began to make their way to the little lake. All except one. He decided to take flight. Into traffic. He met his doom at the front window of a Chevy truck that had zero warning. It was quite alarming actually.

Sinatra: What happened?

Me: I’m not sure, he just flew into the truck.

Sinatra: That was scary I bet.

Me: I’m sure it was.

Sinatra: Was it my fault?

Me: Not at all furball.

Sinatra: Good, I would feel bad if he got hurt because of me.

Me:🤨

Sinatra: What?

Me: It’s just, well, you try to chase them all the time. Seems like you want do want to hurt them.

Sinatra: Nah, I just want to help them.

Me: Help them with what?

Sinatra: I want to help them relax. You know, massage them a little.. with my teeth.

Me: Ahhh, I see now.

Sinatra: RIP goose, sorry I didn’t get to give you a tooth massage.

Me: That sounds awful.

Sinatra: I’m not a tame husky.

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Sometimes she asks the hard questions, and I try to be very careful with my answers. Today was one of those days.

Sinatra: What’s the deal with socks?

Me: Ummm, you wear them on your feet.

Sinatra: But why?

Me: Because shoes aren’t very comfortable without them.

Sinatra: My feet feel fine without them.

Me: You have different feet than I do. Sinatra: I think maybe my feet are better feet than yours. And faster too.

Me: Maybe so, but it’s not nice to brag so much.

Sinatra: You should get those shoes that look like feet.

Me: I don’t like those.

Sinatra: I bet they would make you faster though.

Me: We won’t ever know.

Sinatra: That’s disappointing. 👎

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On this week’s edition of ‘Cool Runnings With Sinatra’….. It was easy like Sunday morning. I was tired and she could tell so she pretended to be distracted by a number of things so I didn’t feel so bad about losing time. She’s a real buddy like that. There were multiple squirrel sightings. A gaggle of geese protecting their gaggle of goslings. She left them alone but grabbed more than one goose poo snack for the road (yep😶). She had a couple of potty breaks and there were some unknown ‘hedge- what the heck is that’s?!!’ I’d say that all in all it was a good day for the McPupperton.

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Me: Running seems to really calm you down.

Sinatra: I think it’s the wind in my face. It’s very relaxing.

Me: I can see that. I feel the sa…

Sinatra: Squirrel! C’mon let’s get him!

Me: No! Stay on the path!

Sinatra: But he taunted me, I gotta gets him!

Me: You don’t, look he’s up the tree.

Sinatra: Ah man, we almost had him too.

Me: We weren’t even close.

Sinatra: We would have been closer, but you slowed us down. You should run on all four of your legs.

Me: I only have 2 legs, these are arms.

Sinatra: I bet you would be faster if you used them to run.

Me: I doubt it.

Sinatra: Agree to disagree.

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