must have belt loops

Then I found another 3 pairs of nice pants (Lee "Riders") at K-Mart, in the women's section. Shades and patterns of gray. One of them, I may not even need to shorten. But I do need to sew extra belt loops on that one - for some odd reason it has belt loops in the front but not in the back. (Why is it so rare to find clothes for myself that don't need to be altered in one way or another?) One pair of the pants was labelled "trouser leg" while the other 2 pairs were labelled "straight leg", but I can't tell what the difference is supposed to be.

The navy blue colored pants that I got at the other store are so dark that they almost look black. So maybe I should still keep my old navy pants after all; maybe I can somehow alter them to be looser on the waist. Sigh.

the case of the phantom dog

My neighbors asked me about an unfamiliar dog they saw in my yard yesterday, along with my 2 regular dogs. They said it was a pit bull and that it was friendly - they were able to pet it over the fence. But when Qiao and I got home an hour later, there was no extra dog in my yard. I have no idea how a dog that size could have snuck both into and out of my yard. I believe the perimeter is fairly secure, considering what I had to do to keep Serena from getting out when she was younger.