Dawn cracks. Ruby is delighted: she dearly loves the break of day. Human is less thrilled. Ohhh well.
We stumble outside, Ruby to patrol the yard and pee on everything, the human to…uhm…stand around. And…
LO! A set of wet tracks has been laid down on the Kool-Deck…like someone or something climbed out of the drink. Impossible to tell whether the tracks are human or animal…
Did Pool Dude show up before the crack of dawn and maybe fell into the water? Seems like Ruby would have alerted to that. Pool Dude is her hero…paws-down the very finest hero in the history of human-canine contact. If he’d been out there, she would have been hot to shoot out there and love him up.
Besides, if he’d fallen in the drink he would have made a lot of noise, enough to set off Ruby like a four-legged burglar alarm.
Hmmm…
Tony’s Home for Juvenile Delinquents has been a little more restive than normal. Maybe one of the pistols over there snuck out and frolicked around the neighborhood last night. But…why would they climb through the thorny vines over the alley wall to do…effectively nothing?
Tony himself has targeted the pool in the past. Indeed, that’s how we ended up in court with him, where he scared my lawyers so much they urged me not to come back to the house. And that was the immediate reason that SDXB sold his house and moved to Sun City. He who swaggers first runs first, hm?
Maybe I’d better put up a camera or two out there. If the delinquent charges of the Delinquent-Master have decided to launch a new campaign, it would be good to have a video of them. Right?