Relieved to Change the Rhetoric.

The calmness of less urgency today.

No immediate rush of work, school, hospital.

The last time I brought my dog here to sleep, (she needs to be chained at home,) she squashed her solid ten-year-old body into the tiny, sixteen-year-olds kennel, resulting in an opera of barking and crying all night.

This time I tried to do better.

I searched for her very own waterproof bed.

$110 later, my daughter watching my return on the ring camera suggests I have wasted my money, her dog would surely chew it.

I snapped hard.

Not because she was wrong.

But because I needed this one small thing to work.

Finally, no barking symphony.

Step outside for my coffee…

FOAM EXPLOSION!

Her dog surely chewed it.

First world problems.

This will not be ruining my

Slow -paced, enjoyable, relaxing, do-less-today, recharge Saturday.