It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle

• Chic Murray joke

This morning I had to get Ted up early to go meet Buddy and Bella at the ballpark because it's Buddy's Saturday to work at the Evil Empire Emporium and so we needed to start early to let him get back home with Bella before going to work.
Here is a picture of the moon over the ballpark; if you squint at it you might just be able to make out Bella and me crashing into Buddy under the moon.
The grass was wet, not quite the "poodle" of the joke, but wet enough to get me soaked as Bella pushed me around as usual. I got rolled in the red clay again and so much stuck to me, because I was wet, that I went home the same color as Bella again!
Ted gave me a cold shower in the backyard when we got home; he said I'm a bird dog and should not have a problem with cold water but you know that's easy for him to say. He went inside and had a hot shower!