(excerpt REAL Family Press - 2006 - copyrighted Linda Nelson AKA "The Lady")
This morning when I grabbed my keys, Peanut's harness and said, “Peanut, wanna take a ride?” (the command I use for her alone), her head’s up, her ears are out, and she bounded out of the cubby hole she’d formed in the blankets like a rabbit… Usually she waits on the arm of the recliner for me to put her harness on, and then I reach for her, carrying her on my left side about waist high…
Once her harness was on, she had springs in her back legs… Jumping, jumping… Almost flying into my arms and if I hadn’t been paying attention, she’d have sailed right over my left shoulder… Thank goodness I had the handle of the leash in my left hand… Otherwise I’d not have stopped her ‘flight’ skyward~!!!... Peanut's like - ”OK, Mom… I’m ready… Are you ready, Mom?... Let’s go… Whatcha waiting for, Mom?”... LOL…
Peanut doesn’t care for riding in Paul’s Saturn… Because of the way the seats sit, she can’t see out the windows if she’s on my lap in the Saturn… And MY lap is her primo choice of sitting spots at ALL times regardless…
But in "The Beast" (my truck), she can sit on my lap, front legs over my left forearm and she has an excellent view through the window of everything going on… BTW, she also has her own pet seat that hangs over the back of the truck seat in the center... But she prefers to go back and forth in the front seat…
And Peanut's as nimble as a mountain goat with the ‘sea legs’ of a salty fisherman… She’s learned to ‘lean into’ a turn, brace herself for a stop, etc… Pretty amazing to watch her in fact… Actually, really amazing...
This morning my daughter, Desiree, has not only her purse, but a stack of binders AND another bag of stuff she’s stashing in her locker… So she took up the entire middle of the seat where Peanut usually patrols…
Not cool!!!!!!!!!! LOL...
I opened my side of the truck, Peanut took another flying leap, found her usual spot taken and landed square on top of Desiree’s freshly shaved thighs on her second 'bound'… LOL…
Peanut DID have the last word on Desiree’s ‘squatting’ on her territory of the center seat… … Might teach Desiree to not wear a skirt if she intends on hogging up the whole front seat with her stuff!!!
As Always,
The Lady
