Terrier Tuesday -- Safe From The Storm Edition

Hi Everyone,

While Alpha-O-Mine is sitting over there laughing her ass off at this ridiculous article (because she's SURE everyone who gets lost in the woods who DOESN'T have a compass [or a GPS or iPhone or smartphone] is suuuuure to have a magnetized paper clip and a styrofoam cup, not to mention water, tape, and a pen) she says I should get to my blogging, so here I am.

I guess Alpha told you we have a new screened-in porch. It's not all-the-way finished yet, but we all looooooooove it, especially when it's raining. Here I am, outside in the middle of a downpour, and notice how dry I am!

This weekend my Abigail was home, along with her Jeremy. We all sat out on the new porch and watched the thunderstorm with Alpha, and whenever Alpha could get away from the rest of us (she can be anti-social, as you already know), she would put her yoga mat down out there and do her stretches, or read.

It's so AWESOME! It's like being outside, but inside, all at once. And Alpha doesn't need to get all bent out of shape that I might be running off, because I'm held inside by the screens.

Stupid squirrel doesn't know enough to get in out of the rain, though. Perhaps we need to get him a magnetized paper clip and a styrofoam cup....

 

Love,

 

Mr. Jefferies

 

 

Comments

[gayle]

I'd be more likely to have a cellphone than a styrocup and paperclip. "Hello? I'm lost in the woods - come get me!"
Screened porch just moved up on my lifetime I-want list...

[marissa]

Now, come winter, you are going to be sorely tempted to close that porch in with windows and add heat. YOU MUST RESIST! I watched many people succumb, only to gain a few DAYS to the experience. The feeling of being outdoors was eradicated. I enjoy every second I spend in my patio (screened porch), though it is truly only usable 3 months out of the year. And if I'm being totally honest, most of those nights are spent snuggled in an afghan- but I'm a knitter, and a sometimes snuggler...no complaints!

[kmkat]

Wait. Jeremy? Ryan The Hand Model is toast?

[Seanna Lea]

I am hoping to add a 3 season porch to my house in the next few years if only to turn the tiny "mud room" into a place where more than a single person can put on their shoes.

[Cookie]

Woods? Do they have cabana boys? Because I don't go anywhere that doesn't have cabana boys.

xo

[Marianne]

I LOVE screened in porches! Keeps the rain and bugs out and lets the breezes in :^)
hee. cabana boys in the woods.
You are really going to enjoy that porch for years and years!

[Laura]

I just hope Mr. Jefferies isn't strong enough to just run right through the screen when he sees the squirrel that must die, or some such. We had a screened porch, too; with our (much larger) dogs, it quickly ended up as a flapping-screen porch!

[Michele Linder]

OMG... after reading the article that Alpha-O-Mine was laughing her ass off over, I'm actually contemplating gathering up all of the needed elements and trying it to see if it actually works!! I've not even had coffee yet this morning!! However, I can't see that I'd have those things with me if I became lost in the wilderness... hmmm... Love the screen porch, Mr. Jefferies!!