Eve Makes More Trouble
By Lisa Scottoline
I’m home from book tour for This Changes Everything, and when I got home, everything changed.
I’ll explain.
First, let me say how grateful I am to everyone who picked up a copy of the book or came out to see me on tour. Thank you to each and every one of you, because you support me, literally.
Meanwhile I love tour, which has me in a different city every day for three weeks. Most of the year I feel like a puppy in a crate, so when I finally get out and meet people who actually read me, it’s the best thing ever.
We hug!
I got home on Saturday, and the first place I went is my happy place, which is my pool. Believe me, I know how lucky I am to have a pool all to myself.
Well, not exactly to myself.
I always bring my dog Eve, who is to the manor born. She lounges on the chair under the umbrella while I read on a float, which is the best thing you could ever do. And that’s exactly what I was doing, after I’d eaten cherries, which is my second favorite thing to do.
Eating.
Anyway, I was reading on my float with a nice full tummy of cherries and I happen to fall asleep.
This is not unusual.
I do it all the time. I love reading myself to sleep, and that doesn’t mean I’m reading a bad book. It means I’m reading a good one, because it relaxes me.
So I woke up an hour later, when I noticed Eve had her face in the cherry bowl. I got out of the pool to find that all of my cherry pits were gone.
Hmm.
I googled, Is it bad for dogs to eat cherry pits?
The answer was, Yes, you idiot. They contain cyanide.
Wait, what?
In large quantities, but do you want to split hairs? How many cherries did your dog eat?
Instantly I called my vet, who said bring her in right away.
This is life with Eve.
You may remember that last month she actually found the only acorn in New York City and ate it whole, causing $12,000 worth of surgery.
Luckily, I have pet insurance.
I reminded myself of same when I was racing to the vet, although this time I was worried. There’s nothing funny about cyanide. And I wasn’t exactly sure how many cherries I had eaten. I remember thinking, wow, Lisa, you’re really pigging out on cherries.
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