Well, 4^th of July around here was nerve wracking. Abby shook for 4 days and hid behind a chair in the family room. Poor thing, Maggie was pretty good, the fireworks bothered her a little bit until, the night of the 4^th.  If you remember she is a big girl around 108 pounds.  We finally got to bed around 11:30 or so and Maggie got up on the bed with us.

 I am going to backtrack for a minuet. When we brought Maggie home for the first time she was only 4 months old, and feeling very insecure.  She would sleep curled up around my head so she could be close to me, well the night of the 4^th she did the same thing, only she is just about four years old now and, much bigger. I let her stay there for a while until the fireworks stopped.  She did get down when she thought it was safe to do so.

Well, Abby is her old self now.  The 4^th of July we had a BBQ here for family and friends. My son and his family came bring food and goodies. He brought me some dry rub he wanted me to try, so the other day I was going to sit down for a few minutes and I thought I would read the bottles of the dry rub and the new spice he brought me.  I read the bottles and smelled them, put them down so I could go outside and water the plants.  When I came in the house, Abby had gotten the bottle of the rub and chewed the cap, and broke it.  Well, some of the rub came out of the bottle and on the floor.  She got some in her mouth; needless to say she did not like it at all. I went looking for her, she was in her kennel rubbing her mouth, then went out, and got a big drink of water. Thank goodness there was nothing in there that would hurt her, just spices she did not like.