Weird Dog

Last night between about 4:30 and 6:00 AM we had a big storm go through. Nothing severe, but lots of thunder and lightning. Normally if it is storming you can bet that Portia will be hiding under the bed (even though it is a tight squeeze for her and she has to lay completely flat, with her legs sprawled out on each side). We often will try to coax her out and there is nothing that can get her out if she hears thunder.

I woke up around 5:30 and it was raining really hard, so I decided to check if I could see water standing in our backyard. Our neighbors put up a fence and early this spring we noticed after a hard rain that there was a water line streteching very far across their fence and it has me worried that the fence is acting as a dam and that we're going to get flooded. It was lightning enough that I could see the the backyard pretty well and there was no water standing. I turned around to head back to bed and there comes Portia running at me at full speed! She ran up to me and started doing her super-excited wiggle-butt dance. Most of you probably haven't actually seen it because she tries to jump on you, but let me tell you it is a sight to be seen. Usually with Aaron and I she doesn't do it too long and really doesn't get that wiggly, but this morning she was going crazy. She probably did it for 5 minutes straight -- all the while there were huge claps of thunder. I could not believe she wasn't hiding and was so seemingly happy. I was laughing so hard, and as most of you know it is very difficult to get me to smile, let alone laugh early in the morning. I crawled back into bed for another hour of rest and she jumped in with me and snuggled up, even with the thunder.