- Joined
- Apr 16, 2005
- Location
- Sharon, SC
Those who follow my wife on facebook may have already seen part of this...
So yesterday made the 2 hour trip down to Clemson to watch their pathetic showing against Syracuse last night. Took the wife and kids, hung out with an old college buddy I haven't seen in 20 years, found out he is married and has 2 kids (always thought he was gay, heh who knew). Saw my cousin get an award on the field (she is also a Clemson grad and was Ms SC last year and received some "bringing positive attention to the University award" or some such.
Traffic was surprisingly not bad and I was home and on thee couch by 1AM.
My back has been acting up and it was in an especially bad mood last night, so I took a few Aleve PM to try and relieve the pain and get some rest.
Around 2:30 I am woke up by my dogs going bat shit crazy outside. Now we live in the country and occasionally a deer will wander into the yard, they'll bark, it'll run off and I'll sleep. Well not last night. The barking went on for 10 solid minutes. I get up tired, sore and medicine headed and see my son playing video games in the living room. Perfect, I'll send him to investigate, lol. He is a big kid and I am tired. Besides they are his dogs. Well 10 minutes later he comes back inside, dogs still barking and says, "Dad there is a small horse in our back yard." At this point I need to make mention, we live in the country like I said. We know everyone for a few miles. Cows? Sure hundreds around but no one with 5 solid miles has horses. For those of you who know Lane he has a flair for the dramatic and has been known to stretch the truth and he has the devilish grin on his face. I said, "Boy you better not be lieing to me, where would a horse come from?" So I head outside and look all around no small horse, and the dogs are calm. I walk back inside pissed and tired and slightly high from the sleeping pills. I tell him to turn the XBOX off, and go to bed he is in trouble in the morning for lieing. 20 minutes later the dogs are barking and charging again. I am now pissed. I walk out side, grabbing my gun from the nightstand, just in case. I round the corner and there staring my dogs down inside there fence (~half my back yard is fenced so they have a couple acres to run around) is a Donkey AND a Shetland Pony. WTF? Where did they come from? Ok now I am sorry for bitching at my son..but first I gotta deal with these delinquent farm animals.
It takes a few minutes but finally they are out of my back yard through the man gate. And I walk back inside to finally sleep. A facebook post from a cop friend suggests their owner was identified and the animals were returned. But there are just certain things you dont prepare for. Rounding your house and seeing a stare down between 2 labs, a donkey and a shetland pony ranks pretty high up my list.
Still dont know how they got in the back yard.
So yesterday made the 2 hour trip down to Clemson to watch their pathetic showing against Syracuse last night. Took the wife and kids, hung out with an old college buddy I haven't seen in 20 years, found out he is married and has 2 kids (always thought he was gay, heh who knew). Saw my cousin get an award on the field (she is also a Clemson grad and was Ms SC last year and received some "bringing positive attention to the University award" or some such.
Traffic was surprisingly not bad and I was home and on thee couch by 1AM.
My back has been acting up and it was in an especially bad mood last night, so I took a few Aleve PM to try and relieve the pain and get some rest.
Around 2:30 I am woke up by my dogs going bat shit crazy outside. Now we live in the country and occasionally a deer will wander into the yard, they'll bark, it'll run off and I'll sleep. Well not last night. The barking went on for 10 solid minutes. I get up tired, sore and medicine headed and see my son playing video games in the living room. Perfect, I'll send him to investigate, lol. He is a big kid and I am tired. Besides they are his dogs. Well 10 minutes later he comes back inside, dogs still barking and says, "Dad there is a small horse in our back yard." At this point I need to make mention, we live in the country like I said. We know everyone for a few miles. Cows? Sure hundreds around but no one with 5 solid miles has horses. For those of you who know Lane he has a flair for the dramatic and has been known to stretch the truth and he has the devilish grin on his face. I said, "Boy you better not be lieing to me, where would a horse come from?" So I head outside and look all around no small horse, and the dogs are calm. I walk back inside pissed and tired and slightly high from the sleeping pills. I tell him to turn the XBOX off, and go to bed he is in trouble in the morning for lieing. 20 minutes later the dogs are barking and charging again. I am now pissed. I walk out side, grabbing my gun from the nightstand, just in case. I round the corner and there staring my dogs down inside there fence (~half my back yard is fenced so they have a couple acres to run around) is a Donkey AND a Shetland Pony. WTF? Where did they come from? Ok now I am sorry for bitching at my son..but first I gotta deal with these delinquent farm animals.
It takes a few minutes but finally they are out of my back yard through the man gate. And I walk back inside to finally sleep. A facebook post from a cop friend suggests their owner was identified and the animals were returned. But there are just certain things you dont prepare for. Rounding your house and seeing a stare down between 2 labs, a donkey and a shetland pony ranks pretty high up my list.
Still dont know how they got in the back yard.
