A Dog's Day at the Farm

My afternoon had just opened up and I felt like a kid finding out about a snow day. What should we do, darling? I asked as she flipped over to let me rub her belly. Well, you finish your snack first then let's go outside. She jumped around me as I hustled her outside. Then back in and we went straight to the kitchen to fill her bowl. We looked out at streets of other homes, cozily set into gardens. The street traffic was dying down and my eyelids were suddenly getting very heavy. I could nap here. Or I could go for what we in our household called the full Churchill. But right now there was no deadline or urgent