I needed to phone SIL this morning.

MIL dearly loves Lemon Meringue Pie from The Machine Shed Restaurant in Des Moines, Iowa.  I mean, she really, really loves this pie!  Seeing as I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what to get MIL for Christmas (actually, I can’t figure out what to get ANYBODY for Christmas this year) I decided to try to get her one of these pies (and a few other little things).  I knew you had to pre-order them and all, so I did that yesterday.

Machine Shed does not deliver.  Hmmmm….what to do?  SIL lives in Des Moines.  Maybe she would be willing to pick it up and take it to MIL so it would be a surprise.  I knew that MIL would be more than happy to pick up her own present, but surprises are nice.  Right?

I went to call SIL this morning.  There was one itty bitty problem.  I couldn’t find a phone!  We have 4 phones.  All cordless.  They all work on the same jacks spread out around the house.  Yesterday, it seems like they were all used at various times but none of them made it back to the jacks.  Boo.

The jacks have a phone locator button on them.  You push the button and it chirps.  The phone give off a beep until the two meet.  It’s cacophonous to say the least.

Paxton had never heard these chirps and beeps before.  We are usually pretty good about hanging up the phones so this was a rather odd occurrence at our house.

8:00 am you could hear, “Chiiiuuurp!  Chiiiuuurp! Chiiiuuurp!” and then a very faint, “beeep, beeep, beeep!”

MFH was walking around the house following the faint “beeeps” until he found one of the phones.  He would then bring it back to me with a look of success.  We did this until we found all four phones.

While we were doing this, Paxton was getting distressed.  He started walking around in circles.  He stopped to scratch his ear…trying to make the noise stop.  More circles.  It was not helping.  At.  All.

Finally, he parked himself firmly between the kitchen and living room.  He titled his puppy head back and let it rip!

”  Roooorwwww!  Roooorwwww!  Roooorwwww!  Roooorwwww!  Roooorwwww!  Roooorwwww!”

Oh my goodness but he was an upset puppy!

We finally found all four phones and the noise stopped.  Paxton was soooo relieved!

Now, Paxton is taking a well earned puppy nap.  What a start to a Thursday!  Poor Paxton!