Elf Wars

Here’s a funny story for you to enjoy…

We have a life-sized cardboard cut out of a person. It happens to be a character from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Furthermore, it happens to be an ELF character from Lord of the Rings. His name is Legolas! While it is an elf character, he is actually taller than most people…but the cardboard statue of him is probably just over 6 feet tall. Well, our dog Dobby hates the thing and whenever he’d see it in various rooms of our old house, he’d start barking insanely at it. Mostly, we know he’s afraid of it but we like to joke that since the character Dobby is also an elf from a different book series (Harry Potter), our Dobby must not like Legolas just because they are from different elf clans! Makes sense, right? So at our old house, we folded up Legolas and hid him away in a closet.

On a different note, we have put the cat food in the basement, now on a cardtable with boxes stacked so that the cats can get to it but the dogs cannot (hopefully). We also now have a hole in the basement door for the cats to get through and go use their potties or eat their food at their leisure. Unfortunately, Dobby and Scarlett have figured out how to squeeze themselves through said hole in the door!

We took one more precaution to keep Dobby out of the cat food down there by standing up the statue of Legolas just around the corner down there so that when you get to the bottom of the steps, you can see him. It totally freaks people out (including me!)when they go down there because he looks so life-like! (I put a sticky note on the outside of the basement door with a WARNING about it!)

Yesterday while I went for a short 10 minute walk outside, I let the dogs roam free in the house. When I got home, I saw Scarlett’s little snout sticking out of the hole from the other side of the door, looking terribly guilty. Yeah, she got caught. We didn’t think she had the nerve to sneak down there alone but apparently she does now! She got in trouble, was deemed "Bad Girl" for about 10 seconds and then life went back to normal.

But last night as we humans were chilling, doing our own things throughout the house, we suddenly heard Dobby frantically barking and then he came flying/stumbling out through the other side of the kitty hole in the basement door!

We figure Dobby realized that Scarlett got away with going through the hole yesterday, there must be something new and cool down there so he'd better go take a look/taste, too? He waited until we weren’t paying attention to them and he sneaked down there for the first time since we put up Legolas about two months ago! Boy was he surprised when he got to the bottom of those stairs! There was his arch nemesis right in front of him, in the dark of the basement, obviously ready to attack him!!!! Out of sheer terror, Dobby barked like crazy and got the hell out of the basement as fast as 'dogly'possible! He probably won’t be going down there again anytime soon! (The good news is he couldn’t get past Legolas so he never made it to the cat food afterall! Our plan worked!)


On a completely unrelated note, we now have a contract on our old/other house and are working through all that stuff that has to be done before closing time! Horray!!!!!!! We are so relieved because we were prepared to go six months with two mortgages and this here (February) is the sixth month! How perfect is that!? We won't be making very much off the sale of the house but at least we won't be losing much either, considering today's economy. So, again I say, HORRAY!!!!!!

Hope ya'll have a fantastic weekend!

I hope that didn’t bore you too much. It’s a funny story I thought you two could appreciate more than just about anyone else! :)