There was still a lot of ground moisture from yesterday's rain so we all got muddy on our sunrise walk. Dawn hates to have her feet cleaned. Her goal is always to run in the house and hop on the bed before we clean her up. I cleaned my shoes and placed them on a furnace vent so they would dry out while we had pancakes and sausages for breakfast. It's funny how quickly Dawn loses her fear when something is cooking in the kitchen. She'll sit down right next to me if she thinks she might get a little scrap of bacon or sausage.
The park was fairly crowded this morning. I guess everybody was making up for lost time after yesterday's rain. It's actually turning into a fairly colorful Fall. Lots of reds and yellows appearing on the trees today. I made good time today. On the way home from my long walk I passed a neighbor who was in the process of moving. Just about all our original neighbors are gone now. We were the youngest when we first moved here, and now we are close to the oldest. I doubt that we'll be going anywhere soon. We live in the best part of the city to have a dog and it's way too much trouble to move anyway.
When I returned home, I rested for a few minutes and then we all got in the car and went to a different park for Dawn's Sunday outing. Dawn is hard to figure out. She gets so excited when she knows we're going to go somewhere and then immediately panics as soon as the car starts moving. Luckily, our Sunday journey is very short and Dawn is fine as soon as she gets out of the car. I don't think we'll ever be able to take a long road trip with her though. I'd be afraid she'd have a heart attack or a stroke.
Our Sunday outing always concludes with ice cream cones. Lately, we've been bringing home a pint of our favorite flavors to eat during the week. They call this stuff frozen custard, but I think it's just ice cream. Actual custard tastes completely different. Dawn loves ice cream. We don't give her a lot, but it's a treat she really seems to appreciate.
It's weird how dry it gets in the Winter. The dehumidifier buckets are filling up slower now. I used to have to empty one of the machines twice a day and now once in the evening seems plenty. The dry air gives me nose bleeds in the morning sometimes. I guess we don't have to keep the dehumidifiers running all the time, but getting rid of the dampness in the house is worth an occasional nose bleed. I wish we'd discovered the benefits of a dehumidifier a long time ago.
Since the Thanksgiving holiday is over, we'll start visiting the rescue Dalmatians again tomorrow. I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing Charlie, Oliver and Pepper but there's a possibility that Pepper might have been adopted. We'll be visiting the kennel a lot during the next several weeks. It's the location for several of our Santa Paws photo events. I need to get my equipment out of the storage warehouse soon. I hope it all still works.
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