The Adventures of Geo Beane: Day 4 of Renovations

(Humphrey took me to Doggie Daycare!)

"Today we are doing some heavy-duty work, Boo."

We? ...Mrrph.

If it wasn't with me, it certainly wasn't we.... Then Who?!? Rrrr...

He had picked me up under the arm pits and was doing some eye to eye soul searching. It was me who broke gaze first, lest he discover that I had gotten into the petunias once again... But how could he know? We hadn't even gone out yet for our morning walk! ...And anyway, he was convinced it was "Those Damm'd Gophers..."

"I am sorry, Geo, but it must be done."

With that, my favorite bowls and best mélange sweater vest were packed up, and the fancy-outing leash snapped on. He tickled my belly on the ride there, but that only made the agony all the worse.

"Welcome to Doggie Disney," said the manicured attendant at the Goofy and Pluto reception desk. Well, Humphrey proceeded to fawn all over the place with Mickey Mouse smiles and cheery quips. Now, I had several frenemies gawking.

"What a pretty girl! ...What's yer name?"

Whmf... at Humphrey. ...Rhrrgh... at Rapunzel.

After much reassuring that I was the sweetest, best lap dog ever, I was led through the golden gates to the land of Magical Memories. ...Humphrey becoming a mere ant arching an antenna in the distance.

...In the evening on the ride home, Humphrey told me how he had made good progress with the floor in the new den, and though he hadn't been able to paint yet at all, and he had had an epiphany!

"Beans, I had it all wrong. Tile would be a mistake. A terrible folly of a waste. We need to return it all. After scrapping the bulk of the floor today, I can see that it is lumped something awful and we'd run the risk of having the corner of the vinyl poking up, inevitably in parts, by force of Nature in due time. What we should do, is put a good couple coats of Polyurethane right over the subfloor and embrace the rusty marbled look that it already has. Upstairs the subfloor is plywood instead of the same particle board, so we'll stain it and varnish. What do you think..?

We'll need to take a trip to Menard's for a return tomorrow..."

Menards...we?... Arf! Arf!!

"The Poly will have to dry overnight... in each room... it'll smell nasty and be very sticky... no place for a..."

Princess like me.

Sigh. wmph... so it'll be Doggie Daycare again tomorrow, right?