dog dream

some people were looking for a new dog, so naturally they came to me.  i owned a dog shelter in an old, dead tree with a giant spiral staircase going up the trunk.  the man said he was looking for a chocolate lab, so we started going up the tree.  we found a chocolate lab but the back half looked like a dachshund and the front half looked like a beagle.  he didn't want it, so we kept going.  i could see his wife out of the tree and i said i didn't think we had another one but we could keep looking.  we made it up to the top of the tree where i had built a nest.  i told a new person that i tried to build it so it would hold my weight and i could sleep in it.  she told me i would just have to cut the two wires that connected to it and make one shorter wire.  (???)
and then!  i was in a giant room with a swimming pool, but it was also a band hall.  i found a book about clarinets and inside the front cover there were pictures of all the different kinds.  the biggest one was the pantheon contrabass clarinet.  i found carleigh and said, "hey, see that tallest chair up there?"  i pointed to one of the thousands of stacks of chairs lining the walls.  she couldn't tell which one i was talking about.  i pointed it out and said it's under the big U in that painting.  she still couldn't see it so i changed spots with her and said, "well, from right here, it's right in between that skinny guy with the glasses and that girl wearing the fruit dress."  she finally saw it.  so i said, "that's the stack of chairs i would have to sit on top of to be able to play this," and i showed her the picture of the pantheon contrabass clarinet.  she giggled, because obviously, it was funny.
then someone next to us said something about the skinny guy and the fruit dress girl thinking we were making fun of them.
and then evie woke up.