Apparently I’m a Moron

(www.meowbarkblog.com) — We’ve lived in our house for 2 years next month, and every nice day the whole time we’ve been here, I’ve said to myself, “I wish we had double-hung windows.”

You see, the windows in the dining room and my office open onto the front porch, and I can’t open them more than an inch or two because otherwise my protective moron dogs will knock out the screen and climb out if the UPS or FedEx guys come to drop off a package. I’m not looking for a lawsuit here, you know what I’m saying? So I have to keep those windows closed on even the nicest days because my dogs are morons who love to chase strangers.

Or so I thought. After making my lament silently for 23 months, I finally said it aloud to Jesse the other day.

“What do you mean you wish we had double-hung windows?” he asked quizzically.

“You know,” I responded, “so I could open the top of the windows in the dining room and office when it’s nice out and not worry about the dogs scaring the crap out of someone.”

“We have double-hung windows,” he informed me.

Duh. It never occurred to me to check. I just, for some reason, was completely convinced we didn’t. So yesterday, when it was 70 degrees out in February, I opened the front windows from the top with full confidence that ne’er a delivery person would be eaten in my neck of the woods. Not on my watch.

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