So what do YOU do on your lunch break?

Well, we THOUGHT we had taken several precautions so that our two 100 lb "puppies" wouldn't be romping the neighborhood. After all, they have nearly 5 acres of chainlinked sand to chase rabbits in, and a kennel with nearly as much square footage of my house. There's serveral gates that have to be negotiated before you can get on to the dirt road... But mix a 14 year old boy's forgetfulness with the persistance of 2 determined dogs, and low and behold, I get a call at work that there were two dogs terrorizing the neighbor's cattle. Good thing my truck has a lead foot - 80 mph home - and THANK YOU for not shooting my dogs, though we certainly deserved to have lost them that way! By the time I arrived home an hour later, they were sitting in their kennel, all the doors and gates wide open, acting like nothing had happened, and why WAS I home so early in the day? Well, no point yelling at them now - like little kids, if you don't catch them in the act, they just don't get it. (But you can be sure The Boy got a good yelling at!) Locked all the gates, gave the dogs some fresh water and a dirty look, and started back to work. At which point I called my boss and explained that yes, the kid is fine (well, he would live until he got home from school, anyway!), and that the reason why I had lit outa work like a crazed woman was because my dogs were in the neighbor's pasture. She and my coworkers all got a good laugh, but I know they were thinking that was a pretty lame excuse to take a long lunch.