All in all, a good day . . . especially by Chappy’s standards. His entire family was here. He got pot roast (two helpings). He got a new toy–which he got to unwrap himself. He got to play in the back yard with his cousins and uncle. He got a homemade biscuit in a box (along with a ziploc bag full of them for later). He got cake.

He is one happy, tired, almost-six-year-old dog!

Really, the day WAS nice, even if it did just start to rain. (As in, literally, about three minutes ago.) There was the unfortunate reaction when my nephew found out the frosting on the cake was cream cheese frosting (after which he refused to eat any more of it). And he did fall in the yard and had to be sent home with band-aids on his knee. But otherwise? Nice.

Now, we’ll just hope the thunder and fireworks are kept to a minimum so Chappy can get some sleep.

And, really, if you’re not going to spoil your kids–no matter how many legs they have–why bother having them around at all? Now we’re just hoping for decent weather for Chappy’s actual birthday on Saturday.

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