Saturday - October 31, 2009

Doing It Doggy Style

Busy day. I had a whole house window job, a regular sized home with 28 windows. It was unseasonably warm here today, but it was raining most of the day. So it was an inside cleaning job, aided by the Marvin windows they have that unhook easily from the frames and fold inwards. Nice. It’s actually faster to do double hung windows the regular way, outside first then the inside, but at least I stayed dry this way. It just takes a bit longer.

They were referred to me by the Cat Ladies, the two biddies down the road that I do odd jobs for. Thank goodness this client didn’t have a dozen cats and 5 stinky litter boxes like they do. No, she has dogs instead. Lots of dogs. Wall to wall dogs. She’s got an old, nearly blind Springer Spaniel, and half a dozen Welsh Corgis. She used to show them, and has a den full of ribbons and trophies. Oh, and they have one little rescue kitten who right now lives in a carrier. Poor kitteh. Probably psychologically damaged already.

I love dogs. Dogs are great. But while the spaniel is old, and slow, and rheumy, and sleeps a lot, the corgis are high energy animals. She kept 5 of them in a little room so they be out of my way, and the one running around was fairly mellow and quite friendly. Actually all the dogs were nice. But 7 dogs is a pack, and they act that way. So whenever I moved from room to room, put something down or did anything that made a small noise, they started barking. And when one starts the others chime in, and nobody wants to be the first to stop barking.

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