The sun is finally shining

and best of all the temp is supposed to be in the 60's the rest of the week! Spring is here (hopefully) One thing I hate about March is how the weather can play tricks on you - one day it might be 65 degrees and then the next day it might snow! Now that spring is approaching it got me thinking about how Brittany loved to be out in the backyard. Especially if it was a nice sunny warm day she would just lay out there in the grass (well that was way back when we didn't have our pool) the whole yard was grass and she would go find a nice spot and lie down. She also loved to chase whatever little critters were in the yard as well. And she was relentless! I remember my neighbor had this little white cat who we affectionately named "stubby" - we named him that because for some reason he had no tail! Anyway Stubby used to like to frequent our yard and for some reason even knowing there was a dog back there never seemed to bother him. Though I must say most time he would come in the yard was when Brittany was safely tucked away in the house and most she could do was jump back and forth by the back door barking and carrying on because you see Stubby not only liked to frequent my yard he also had a habit of sitting right next to my back door LOL! Anyway I remember one day when I came home from work Scott told me he had let the dog out in the yard and I guess Stubs decided to take a walk over not realizing the dog was actually out there and next thing you know the chase was on! Scott said it was the funniest thing he never saw that dog move so fast but she chased poor Stubs right up a tree he said all he saw was the cat holding on to the tree stump with all 4 paws spread wide open and the dog standing at the bottom looking up wagging her tail and every once in a while doing like this side-step thing! He said it was the funniest thing but he did feel bad for Stubby because the poor cat was probably scared out of his mind so he went out there with the leash and had to drag Britts away from the tree! From that day on I don't think I have ever let her out when I knew there was a cat in the yard. Some dogs can't be bothered by cats but that wasn't the case with Britts she LOVED to chase them. I remember always being worried when we had the pool covered that Britts would see a cat and go crazy and just trampled right across the pool cover - luckily that never happened!!!