Eventful 4 miles alone. First I had to deliver some borrowed tomato cages to my neighbor..that took a few minutes..About a mile into the run I came upon one of my old fears..a dog..alone with nobody around to call him off. I HATE stray dogs..they have bigger, scarier teeth than dogs on a leash or at least with someone nearby. I chickened out and turned around. Then I saw some guys going about my pace and turned back around and followed them..at least if it was a mean dog he'd probably go for them first..or they could protect me. Okay..so it was a perfectly nice dog but when I'm all by myself I don't want to take any chances. Then next event happened at what we call the rooster house. I decided to turn around there today because the tomato cage adventure made my run a little shorter. As I was turning around I noticed two teeny tiny boys maybe 1 and 2 outside in their jamies by themselves. No biggee...except there was a pool outside full of plenty of water to drown in that they could almost fall into..tough call. Do I go bang on the door of this probably totally responsible Mom(from the look of the yard and the house very nice people live there) or do I let the kids possibly drown? I stopped some other ladies for advice and decided to go knock on the door. As I was running away to go around the corner of the trail to get on the street I notice a dog appear in the backyard..he follows the babies to the front yard...Is this the babysitter? Can dogs babysit? Well, he wasn't there at first and I guess the parents sent him outside to watch the kids..I chickened out and went on my merry way praying that I wouldn't see a scary headline later today.
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