From a Prompt: Cockleburs, Poison Ivy, Super Baby2, Slip N Slide Failure

Poor Miss Molly, Bud Wise’s stupid Irish Setter was full of cockleburs, again. She got all matted up after running through the fields chasing the fat groundhog that seemed to constantly tease her. If it wasn’t bad enough that last week’s trip to the vet cost him an easy 100 bucks to clear a nasty case of poison ivy from Kurt Rashmen’s cheap root mulch that Miss Molly kept digging in, now he had to head to the PetSmart to get Molly cleaned up before the twin’s birthday party.

It came to him in a moment of resourceful time management that he could stop in the Target pick up the kids’ present, which was the next in the series of Super Baby2 : Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, while Molly was getting de-burred. With all his errands complete, Bud and Molly went home to begin the festivities with the kiddies.

It was the dog days of August and the kids were already in their bathing suits waiting for the hose to be turned on to fill the Slip N Slide. Bud turned on the water to get the runner filled and ready for the kids. At the same time the fat groundhog waddled across the lawn. It paused when the water began to spray and looked directly at Miss Molly as if to say, “Come on. Let’s go another round.”

With the challenge accepted, Molly launched from her position, skating directly across the water slide on all four paws and snatched the groundhog around its neck.

As she proudly presented her master with her prize, Bud saw that Molly had caused a Slip N Slide failure. Her paws had ripped the plastic runner in her pursuit of that taunting fat groundhog.