October 18, 2005
puppy dog tales
When I write about Spring and Sprocket, their personalities are very clear. They are so clear, that they often write for themselves.
Telling other people about Spring and Sprocket can be a bit weird, though. Sprocket has a monkey.
She goes far up in the back yard and sometimes she just looks at the trees and sometimes she barks. That's where the monkey lives. So of course she's back there.
If we mention Sprocket's monkey in the presence of those who aren't familiar with the world of Spring and Sprocket, there's a moment of disbelief and then there's the enduring feeling of wanting to disbelieve that this nonsense is really happening.
Some people don't believe in Santa. Other people don't believe in Sprocket's monkey.
And Spring is difficult to describe. She has prepared a speech for us:
Spring is a beautiful dog.
She is smart.
She is tall.
She likes tasty food.
She likes garbage.
She likes running.
She likes being beautiful.
She is the queen.
She is the queen.
She is the queen.
I love my dog Spring.
She's a little bossy, as well as being a beautiful queen, but more people understand that than understand the monkey business.
But dogs are so much fun to talk about!
Posted by dotty at October 18, 2005 12:09 AM