Summer 2015 BEGINS!

Slugger and I have some major plans this summer - primarily, lots and lots of walks with Dad and cousin Tuck!!

Yesterday was the last day of school and graduation. This morning I slept until 10am :) Although I have to go back to school on Monday to sign off on grades and such, and for a stupid all day math meeting on Wednesday, SUMMERTIME IS UPON US!!! And we are SOOOO glad!!!

I decided that we needed to "get out of town" for a bit. If you don't live here or haven't been watching the news, Texas has seen some rain. Okay, A LOT of rain. I saw a graphic this morning that said we have had enough rain to cover Manhattan 4 times, or something like that. Slugger and I have been able to walk - between storms, in the rain, short distances several times a day - but we're getting tired of our neighborhood. Several of our walks entail grassy parts, which are currently just muddy green parts. We haven't been to the Nature Reserve because I can only imagine what those trails look like. They're muddy after a normal, one day storm.

So, we drove out to Weatherford where the Lake Mineral Wells State Park trailway begins. Or ends? I thought that the first two miles were paved, but that's the OTHER end apparently! But it was hard packed gravelly path that was actually mostly dry except in a few places. We went out almost 2 miles and then went back. The best part is that it was sunny-isn and relatively cloud-less. Okay, no storm clouds, so good enough!! We even stopped to take a picture or two, because it was just that beautiful.

 

Slugger had a great time dancing through puddles and chasing lizards. He did very well considering this is the farthest we've gone in almost a year! It was a very slight uphill on the way out, and of course downhill on the way back. Parts of the path had been under running water at one point recently. One stretch was still wet with a very small stream running by it and through it. About halfway back, Slugger was apparently tuckered out. He walked through a puddle and drank from it. And then laid down in it!! He moved around a couple times but seemed to enjoy the refreshing water on his belly. 

I almost had to force him into the running water later. I was hoping it was cleaner and perhaps would make him not quite so dirty and smelly in the new car on the way home! 

Pretty sure this isn't a creek normally!!

 

The knee likes to be in its brace after being iced.
It didn't start to bother me until about mile 3. Progress!
I'd like to point out that puppy is wet lying on top of me.

We've both done a lot of nothing (after baths for everyone) since we got home :) 

So far, summer is off to a FABULOUS start!!