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Edgar runs away
Saturday, June 9 2012
By this morning Jessika and Aaron's little Boston Terriers already seemed tired of our dog sitting services. They were both prone to yapping about nothing in particular (I imagined them saying, "This vacation totally sucks!"), and Edgar regarded me as a threat whenever he saw me, standing at a safe distance and barking or giving me the stinkeye. At some point this morning he seemed to get it in his mind that he could just run away. He started out by scaling the knoll behind the woodshed, but then he continued on southward, perhaps under the illusion that he could walk all the way back to Charlottesville. My Ramona (as opposed to Jessika's Ramona) joined me in trailing him some distance, but we ended up standing on a bluff along the farm road watching helplessly as he disappeared into the forest.
I went out occasionally to look and call for him, but he'd vanished. When it began to rain fairly heavily I thought maybe he'd decide against his plans, but he didn't return.
Four hours passed and by this point I was really worried about the little guy. But then there he was in the living room, completely dry and just as suspicious as before.
Meanwhile Gretchen and Sarah the Vegan had gone to the Stone Ridge Library Fair.
This afternoon Edgar gradually let down his guard about me. He wouldn't let me touch him, but he started following me around. At some point he lay down at my feet while I was sitting at my computer and he finally let me scratch his back.
This evening Gretchen had wanted to go to the mall to see The Avengers, but the plans gradually got downsized until all it amounted to was Sarah and Gretchen making strawberry shortcake (they'd gone to a pick-your-own-berries place yesterday) and watching movies on our teevee. We watched the first two episodes of Girls, which I liked much better than they did. (Gretchen can't abide programs that have no sympathetic characters.) Then they watched The Hangover Part II ("It's happening again."), though this required me to download it a second time using Bittorrent, as the version I had had been surreptitiously recorded off a screen in a movie theatre and you could occasionally see people getting up and walking in front of the camera.
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