Sundays Outdoors.

(Daisy)

(Zooey)

We took the dogs to the Bechtel leash-free dog park on Sunday – even though it was hot and humid – and let them run around for a while. Once again (and totally against her usual behaviour) Daisy happily loped around the pathway. Toward the end she let us know that it was time to go – by parking her little butt by the exit and refusing to move. Okay, then, let’s go home..

They had a very good time despite the heat. We returned home and they both collapsed onto the cold floor after filling themselves with as much water as they could inhale. Apparently water tastes better at home than it does when you bring it to the park with you. Who knew? Today they’re both still sleeping it off. Lovely!

The humans were hot and sweaty too, of course, so I convinced Coffee to go to the Elora Gorge to swim for a bit. We haven’t been there before (well, I’ve been to Elora and the gorge many times in my childhood, but never swimming) so I figured that would count as part of my resolution to spend more time outdoors in KW, exploring the parks and green spaces.

No photos from swimming because neither of us was feeling brave enough to bring the digital camera when we’d just be leaving it with our towels and shorts on the beach. But suffice to say that there was much water and it was a perfect temperature, too. The highlight for me were the dragonflies darting all over the place – some of them were HUGE! – and the tadpoles we saw in the shallows.

Okay, the tadpoles kind of freaked me out. But the dragonflies made me unspeakably happy – as Coffee now knows. I think I said, “OHMYGOD, LOOK AT THAT ONE!!” fourty-seven-thousand times. It was just so cool to see them an inch from my face or zipping past us or mating (!) or just darting around. SO COOL.

And now it’s Monday again and Coffee’s at work and, well, Mondays just plain suck. Can’t we just go swimming instead?