Training Log Archive: Yukon King

odd day - went over to the airport & sat around outside sniffing the lawn (G-dog) & watching takeoffs (me) while D did some avionics, then off to Iona Beach to picnic & walk (1 km, sorta) on hot black sand & frankly gross low-tide beach (G says YUM) then home while D did more avionics. G & I went for 7pm walk still hot, played w/ Sophie & Joey the Chin & G's cat friend. Did 10pm walk & it WAS cooler outside, met Callista & owner quoted greek philosopher & related a buddhist teaching-fable which honestly was a bit more interesting than the usual dog-owner conversation....

down the woods along the creek where it is cool. 75 minutes outside. Great weather.

may be walking a bit much since feet complaining a bit. Tonight I will take last bit of salmon & try a different salmon loaf based on something I saw in a deli, very pretty w/ wild rice and corn, kinda fakey first nations motif...then a salad & I dunno. Finish the birthday pie. What's up w/ Swampfox log?! is it a computer glitch? Is it a miff? I am scared to mention it tho. I miss reading his stream-of-consciousness, I hope he comes back.
PS got exhausted so no fanciness for dinner, retrieved (rather yummy) vegetarian-organic frozen pizzas form freezer & got rid of them...

gah! despite being wary about feet, had to gallopdowntown & all over to sort out lost checks & mortgage payments. But it's done. Two short dog walks, Gypsy is having a lot of fun w/ a CAT! They are mutually fascinated & will spend as much time as I can stand, just staring at each other from 3 ft to 5 inches apart, lounging in the grass under a shady tree. Obedience class in the evening, exhausting for tiny dog brain (wanted to play, not sit for MINUTES AND MINUTES while other dogs practiced heeling)

woke up hastily from unpleasant dream about skipping classes at Carleton (?!). Planning secret birthday dinner - it will involve blueberry pie, and possibly something that might be called petoncles, and definitely "kicking it up a notch", but that's all I can say...cardamon in my cafe au lait this AM, living it up, oh yeah! continue to plan canoeing, after D's project finishes, maybe next weekend we will take new barbeque, canoe, dog, & several picnics, & live outside for a day

yow ! 1.2 km to get proper bits for the shower plus 1.5 km to the park w/ puppy made my feet hurt. But now they are OK... soon we will do second walk, nice N hot out, like 27 degrees & G seems to be adapting physiologically despite monster fluff layer - like a Tuareg, she doesn't really notice the heat of the sun hitting her, there is a big delay until it actually penetrates to where she is, so her learning curve re behavioral temperature reg is pretty flat...added szechuan beans, waldorf salad, & vanilla icecream to menu (mmm nice combo). Working on birdsong identification CD's today trillers & high pitch notes.

did two walks in the afternoon, one w/ 6 big dogs that covered G w/dog spit (usually I'm fine w/ dog spit, but this time she was pretty much sopping so I felt constrained to wipe her down when we got home) & another just to see if we could figure out which apt was giving off the smoke alarm sounds (all a bit paranoid since the fire on 7th floor). Another 40 minutes outside for puppy.

joints all still happy, yay! Snuck off to library (allure of free buspass soon to expire combined w/ passionate desire to start planning canoe trips) to get Paddling in Lower Mainland. it's good! planplanplan! 24 degrees, pup is doing OK, did three walks today two in the woods, met lotsa dogs, sat in shade & read about canoe routes, about...110 minutes outside.
Odd vegan tomato-based nondescript pasta sauce, peculiar bleu cheese-w/-pear thing & unambiguously good vanilla strawberries...can't win every time.

very pleased w/ gardening I got done on saturday - put out five pots' worth of spiderplant, Mikey plant, & gesneriad onto the patio, & did a planter of surprise seeds from last year's collection just to see if they'll still sprout (coleus, forget-me-not, & violas) if not, I'm gonna get some fibrous begonias in various pinks & put 'em out there. Just have to get the bamboo leaves up, & we're good! Now to review the inside plants...
I notice my joints are in really fine shape these days - maybe the car-riding enforced rest last week helped.

short loop AM(well, 1pm, but first walk) cuz G-dog trying to eat lotsa worm jerky off sidewalk so we went home early for lunch. Longer evening walk down the first bit of stairmaster & thru woods over to bikepath & back up the creek, met lotsa barky snarly pointy-nose dogs - G is learning to moderate her behavior based on other dogs' actions, yay! altho a bit ...sad to see her buoyant spirits defeated by yappy-snarliness, oh well, thats life. (1.5km, about 80 minutes outside)
Also trotted about AM to busloop & along Kingsway to bank & pick up grilling tools which I am ecstatic about. (1.8 km)

slept in today & it felt good.... off to the North Shore for two parks, Lighthouse Park (Juniper Point) & Whytecliffe where the divers go, in aid of Gypsy's playdate w/Oscar - oddly, now that G is no longer in heat, Oscar is contantly trying for romance, hmmm (which doesn't work cuz G is too low to the ground)...fun anyhow, quite a bit of elevation change (for me, heheheh) down & then back up a gully, I was really careful & slow, but my hip did hurt a bit but by evening it was OK again.
Did both walks when we got home, about a km and a bit, while D did avionics. Massively overordered chinese delivery so we will have that for dinner tomorrow as well. Very relaxing day.