And to top it off...

I just had to pay a bounty of $2.00 to my neighbor kid because he saw Murphy and Belle walking down the street and got his mom to help him round them up and bring them back. Apparently one of the people checking out my roof in my absence earlier didn't fasten the gate and when I got home and put them in the back yard, they pushed the gate open and went walk-about. So then the doorbell rings, and there's my neighbor and her son with two German Shepherds who didn't even try to look repentant.

And pursuant to my earlier promise to the kid to pay a reward for every returned dog, I had to pony up two bucks.

Damned dogs.