Sunday

Dog Days of Summer Gets Real

Gardner Station,TN- There wasn't a dry eye in the house as the heroic tale was recounted in The Upper Left Tennessee Holy Lord Missionary Congregational Tabernacle of Holiness.  Deacon Blues gave a concerted effort to orate the epic story of undoubtedly the greatest canine rescue mission in Weakley county history. One family, one dog. Most people will go their entire lifetime and never even pretend to know the courage and tenacity of the Richwine-Gardner Puppy reconnaissance mission of June 2018.
     Jennifer Yager, no relation, decided haphazardly to buy a pair of Great Pyrenees puppies on Friday, June 29. Her husband, a kindhearted, quiet fellow, had advised that they secure the area where the young dogs would cohabitate with equine creatures. Throwing caution to the wind, lady Yager filled up a sock with Valencia oranges and beat her poor husband mercilessly. She also told him how stupid his idea was and that when he regained consciousness, he should collect his teeth and go to bed.
     All seemed fine until the next afternoon, when it came to the attention  of the Yagers that one of the pups had pulled a Houdini move from the horse field. With a fully equipped platoon of rag-tag soldiers of fortune and a budget of $600 million, the search commenced. Armed with only a desire for success and an anonymous phone tip, tensions ran high as the militia descended upon the neighborhood in question. Not long after, an officer by the name of Johnny Richwine (pictured below)
had employed sophisticated night-vision goggles and infrared surveillance technology. This effort coupled with a state of the art global positioning system gave Mr Richwine unbridled confidence in assessing that the canine juvenile had attempted amateur spelunking in a nearby culvert. Within nanoseconds, Richwine, under the careful and diligent supervision of Spec Ops overlord James Allen Gardner, began his descent into the underworld of northwestern Weakley county. "This is taking forever!, exclaimed an angered Mrs Yager, only 12 seconds after the start of the mission. Moments later, the flicker from Richwine's LED headlamp
began to surface, with a frightened young dog in tow.
     After the rescue, a press conference was held at the dilapidated Gardner Community Center. The main topic was obviously the amazing rescue that had just transpired, yet someone from the back of the room kept asking about when the county was going to tow away and destroy a beaten down, rusted out, hunk of junk, green Ford Mustang left abandoned next door to the Gardner United Methodist Church. The protagonist of this piece, young Mr Johnny Richwine (pictured here)
, took questions from countless media outlets for what some believed to be 5 hours. The community is forever indebted to this humble hero for his bravery.