Whistle, Chime, Ding, Big, Bong

Fiorella's kitchen is an orchestra.  The tea pot whistles to tell us the water is hot, the refrigerator chimes when we've left its door open, the dishwasher dings to signal it has finished its cycles, the microwave bings to inform us that food is cooked, and the alarm system emits a long bong to assure us that the the house is protected,

Fio should be able to make a song out of all this action.

Problems, Springtime, Gall

Maybe Fiorella could catch up on everything if new problems didn't keep arising, like the house alarm system informing her last night that the guest room window was not secure. Fio checked, of course, and found nothing amiss, but now she'll have to figure out what's wrong with the alarm system.
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The grass is bright green, patches of bluebonnets are showing along the highway, and the perfume of mountain laurels is in the air.  Definitely, it's spring.
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What Fio lacks in brains, she makes up for in guts--or is it gall?

Scenes with Sonia

Did Fiorella tell you that twice last month the security company had to alert a police cruiser to come out and check on the house?   The first time, it turned out that Sonia Dog was hurling herself against the locked glass patio door so forcefully that she set off the alarm.  The second time, she'd hurled herself against the unlocked back door to the garage until it popped open.  When Son found her, just before the cruiser arrived, the alarm was shrieking bloody murder and Doggie was racing around like a crazy woman.

So from now on, we're leaving Sonia, who has a cast-iron bladder and no longer chews on anything but rawhide bones, inside the house when we go out--because she is nothing if not dogged.