So last night I closed the shop down. What with the holiday hours, that means I got home sometime around 12:45am. Actually, it was on the dot, as I had said in the afternoon to expect me around that time, and when I got in the 4Runner, I saw I had two minutes to make that statement a fact. And so it was.

However, it’s not like I could go home and just go to sleep or anything, mind you. Nope, especially not this morning, as The Girl was on her way out of town via airplane to visit her kooky family in So Cal. A plane that left no later than 6am, and required us up by 3:45am or so.

Now couple that with the fact that when I got home, I was informed there was chocolate pudding in the fridge, and you can piece together how I maybe got one or two good hours of sleep before I was up and at ‘em. That’s the saying, right?



But it lead to a mighty fun day
Now I admit that after the drop-off at the airport, I managed to get a couple more hours of shut-eye. But the puppies cut that short as they felt I had both a) slept long enough, and b) started coming dangerously close to letting them starve to death.

Since I was up, I got started on our day together, which largely revolved around them. It was off to the beach, where I ventured to an area we hadn’t been to before. It was kinda cool, actually, as the waves broke way out, so there was lots of water to wade through to go and get the ball I was throwing out there.

But this wasn’t all I had in store for them. The other day when we ended up going off-roading, we also came across a little area that faces the bay, not the ocean, so there is no crashing waves or anything, just abruptly receding land that gives way to nice, deep water. This is great news for Miles, as he loves to swim, and I love to see him swim because it works his butt out something fierce, and getting him to actually work up a doggie-sweat is hard-damned work. Other than swimming, I’m not sure there’s enough hours in the day to do it anymore, actually. If a fiddle was fit, I'd say he was that, I guess.

But this wasn’t all I had in store for them. The other day when we ended up going off-roading, we came across a nice, steep access point from the dunes to the actual beach. I didn’t go this direction at the time because a) we saw a truck stuck there (damn Chevy's; yeah sure this is your country, huh?), and b) I didn’t want to also become stuck there. However, today I was following a Toyota Tacoma loaded with a couple dogs going this route. I figured that if he could do it, so could I. And so I did.

We followed the beach around to the peak of the peninsula. There’s a Jetty on either side of the bay entrance, and I parked the 4Runner then took the dogs out on a ½-mile walk to the end of the northern Jetty.

But that’s not all….. OK you’re probably sick of that literary trick, huh? Well after that I took them around to an even better spot that faces the bay, and miles got a really good workout swimming into and out of the water. So much so in fact, that I fear he may actually end up sore tomorrow. He’s not showing signs yet, bet we were out there swimming for the better part of 3 hours. We shall see. We. Shall. See.

Peace.

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