Dog Grooming Day

Day 28 

To say today was a calamity of chaos would be an understatement. How I managed to be reasonably together by the end of it all I don’t know. 

Born and raised in a dog grooming shop I had acquired the skills of a groomer quite young. Also having my first born quite young I was taught how to turn those skills into a business. 

Never wanting to be a groomer when I grew up the fact remains that there are a small handful of people I still can not say no to. Thankfully I have two lovely apprentices, one of which has opened her own little dog grooming shop as a homeschool project. 

I have always been notorious for being a “time optimist” a friend once called it. It's when one believes that you can do so much more with one’s time than is actually possible. 

Thinking we would be alright I chose to bring in the amount of dogs that we could do in a perfect world. The world we live in is not perfect and disaster soon started to unfold. 

It was an “exercise more, eat less” day I have recently learned to call them. Which was fine with me because yesterday was definitely an “exercise less, eat more” day. This whole idea of toggles is a lovely one. Kinda like keeping the metabolic scales in balance. Maybe if I can keep those scales in balance then my bathroom scale will be a little kinder to me. 

Our house sitter is coming Thursday and the need to have things as perfect as possible for her is an ever looming presence. The dirt I have been so good at ignoring since the last time we had company is now calling my attention with alarm bells. 

There will be no more horsing around this week, and that's okay because the world is wet and rainy right now anyway. 

I finally sat down and looked at my phone for the first time all afternoon. To my surprise there was my dear friend, looking for her lost sister. 

My friend called and I spoke with her on the phone. She said the purse of her sister with all her identification was still in her house where she was last seen early Thursday morning.

My heart sank. 

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