The Dogs

Its a job that I haven't done in three months. Its something I didn't want to do, but it had to be done. Today was the day to take advantage of the beautiful weather. I mean who wouldn't want to be outside with sunny skies and 40 degree weather during January? Today was the day to rake up all of the dog shit that has been piling up in my sideyard for three months.

I have been saying to myself I should have done it already. But its not fun and games raking that stuff up. Since the weather is nice, my backyard is muddy. The winter here in Michigan has been like early spring weather. We have gotten snow, but it has melted. My dogs have torn up most of the grass and just have a muddy area to run around in. We have grass, but it is behind some gardening fence that Kelly (German shepherd two) likes to jump over. Blitzkrieg (German shepherd one) doesn't jump over anything, but he will break through the fence to get to the grass.

When I got home from work this morning, I walked over to the side of the house to see what the sideyard looked like. Terrible is the only word I can use. About 95% of the sideyard between our house and a tall fence was covered with dog shit. I knew today was the day to get rid of it. After eating lunch, I put my shoes on, got out a shovel and rake and started. I started to rake the crap into piles. My original plan was to rake everything to one pile. That didn't work out. There was just so much of it! I ended up with five piles. FIVE!

I grabbed a garbage bag and started to scoop the crap. While scooping, I managed to step in some. GREAT! That blended right in the all of the mud that was on the bottom of my shoes from the yard. After about 10 or 15 minutes I finished with the first pile, it was on to the second. The bag was really heavy, just from the first load. After putting half of pile two in, I got another garbage bag. The second garbage bag was able to safely secure the last three piles. My whole point of raking the shit up today was to put it out with the garbage (today is garbage day). Of course the garbage truck came to my house while I was still with pile one. Now that means two bags of crap are stuck at my house until next Monday. BOO!

Before my husband left for work I told him we need to rake every other week. I can't rake up another five piles of crap in a couple of months, its so gross. Raking up one is bad enough.

*In the photo is my husband Mike and our two dogs (from left to right), Kelly and Blitzkrieg.