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 A minor comedy of errors when I took Mara for our afternoon-it's-hot-short-walk.

I chatted a minute or two with the landscaping guys. They clocked me as a not-typical-worker person and asked what I did for work. They'd noticed my boots and such and were curious if I was camping or landscape crew or what.

Then Mara and I walked out to the dog play area, which is a small fenced area next to a larger open field and small woods that run along one side of the fenced area and around the larger meadow. 

There was a fucking deer just hanging out near the play area. 



Thank goodness Mara didn't see it. I've never seen a deer there and that must be why Mara picks up ticks so frequently. So in light of that, I skipped the play area because Mara would lose her shit and probably find a way to scale the fence. 

So I looped up towards the road and crossed it to head back to the apartment. The side walk is all overgrown from the neighbors trees and bushes and I've slowly been breaking them back. I have plans to take my hand pruners with me. Mara was sniffing further into the bushes and I thought she was just sniffing things and she came out WITH A WHOLE BBQ RIB WITH MEAT STILL ATTACHED

Me: holy shit

So I had to take that away from her and she was unhappy about the whole thing. 

And then she ate something else she found later but it wasn't a whole bbq rib so its fine.