Pearl Bailey startled me awake this morning, and man – she was in a frenzy. She raced down the stairs before me in a conniption fit! Once I opened the sliding glass door, she barreled down the outside steps into the her Shangri-La and came face to face with her nemesis, Merle the Squirrel.
Now, let it be known that Merle is a mischievous scamp. He’s been taunting Pearl Bailey for years; almost from Day 1 of Pearl Bailey’s existence! The two share an almost love-hate relationship. I really believe that Pearl Bailey would like to become friends, but Merle is a vilifier – his mocking sneers at this drooling dumb dog are something out of a cartoon book!
The best part of this morning’s ‘squirrel-du-soleil’ performance was Pearl Bailey almost caught the wily varmint! I watched from the porch as she leapt three feet in the air narrowly missing Merle’s fuzzy tail as he jumped from the fence up onto an adjacent palm tree. Now, I tell you, jumping three feet in the air for Pearl Bailey is nothing short of miraculous. Her ‘never miss a meal’ hefty physique (my nephew refers to her as “Stick a’ Butter) is certainly a deterrent to her agility. But, when I tell you she bounded for that fence section, she was in it – 100%. Got to give it to her, this girl is all heart!
After the narrow miss for a tasty breakfast supplement, Pearl Bailey returned to the house and proceeded to tell Ella all about it! And, she didn’t even have to embellish the story, this was true reporting at its finest!