INDIAN SUMMER: TWO DAYS, THREE PARKS

Gosh, we had two warm, mostly sunny days recently.  So Guardian took us to 3 parks in two days!   Here we are on our deck enjoying the warmth:

She forgot to snap photos of the first park because she was too busy talking to her friend who was too busy trying to hold on to her part-time dog (no, the dog itself is full-time, but was only part-time with Guardian’s friend) while we walked.  All I know is that it took WAY too long to get there, and lots of annoying whining from Guardian because the park she was looking for was missing.  Then her friend found it and it was closed because of mean Sandy.

Still, it was a good park with nice walking paths and a few grumpy people who didn’t like dogs to be there. We had a little bit of excitement when the part-time dog slipped its collar and raced around and around some picnic tables forever until her part-time dog sitter could finally catch her.  We thought the whole thing was very amusing, but no humans were smiling.

 Next day, we went to a very-short-ride-from-us park:

Here are some scenes you might enjoy like we did.

Here we are sniffing at what's left of a poor tree Mean Sandy knocked down

There weren’t many people at our first park, which disappointed us, but we had LOTS of new smells to keep our flat noses happy. 

Our last adventure was at that Fischer’s Park where we usually walk with our buddies Oscar and Otis and their people.  

 It looked really different because the trees were now mostly R-rated naked. And not many other people or dogs, so, really, it wasn’t much of an adventure. But it was great to be with Guardian and outside with even more new smells, so we went along with it.

This time we got to see the little waterfall with nobody else blocking our view.  Yeah, well, to be honest, we’re only interested in the ground smells, so it mattered more to Guardian than us.

 And the path looks kind of like the last park, but with little stones instead of smoothness, and more water along that path.

Guardian then found some of those HUGE mutant leaves we showed you in one of our earlier stories (LITTLE PUGS WITH BIG STUFF in October), only this time they were still on the tree sticks.  We couldn’t measure them or get close enough to them to show you their size, but maybe you can use your eyes to get an idea.

I’ll tell you, Gus and I were glad to be out of doors, wearing only our own fur coats instead of those fake-y fleece ones.  We didn't have to be left home in our boring house.  Guardian was with us. And she had treats!

So, back to the changes in weather-numbers.



Look at these numbers and you'll see for yourself the change.  This is Sunday's number.

And this was Monday's afternoon number:

This was the number at like right after lunchtime (Guardian's, not ours, 'cuz we don't get lunch)--it was like 36 when we got up.  And  see that “feels like” number?  Yeah, earlier it felt like....FREEZING, and I know that's a way lower number!
  Guardian keeps mumbling about the climate changing.  She says there's no real Spring or Summer or Fall anymore, or even no real Winter here last year.  I don't know much about that.  But I do there were two real Spring-Summer-like days, and then--BOOM---we're in Winter.  If that's what she's talking about, well, I guess I sorta know what she means.

How about you out there?  What do your guardian people think about the SPRING, SUMMER, FALL AND WINTER in your home area?  Do they think there's been big changes, too?   We only care because in this coldness, it takes Guardian a ridiculously long time to put on her outdoor clothes and shoes, and hat and earmuffs and scarves, and collect her phone and keys.....so we have to wait, and wait, and cross our legs, and wait, and wait.  If there's less coldness, there's less waiting!  So if the climate gets warmer, well, we're all for it!