Raining Dogs and Dogs
7.8.05 - 9:08am
And so we meet another rainy day in early July. If you want to look on the bright side, at least it's not snow...
Things are moving right along nonetheless. I've officially quit my day job, and the freedom is nice. I took the liberty of electing the first few days of my unemployment as a sort of summer vacation. Which would have been great, had the weather held up a little better...
On Wednesday, I decided to follow Jake on his dog walking route. All of our trusted weather sources claimed that the rain was going to hold off until the afternoon. Lo and behold, about 3 dogs into the day, it was POURING. Luckily the humidity kept things warm enough at the start that it was fun to be stuck in such torrents with big friendly dogs who liked the rain. We were soaked in seconds. It brought me back to times in grade school when you'd have a field trip and get stuck outside at the zoo or something in the pouring rain and have no choice but to jump in puddles and make the best of it. So that's what we did.
Most of the dogs we walked didn't really mind the weather, they just kept shaking themselves out and kept on walking. The big labradors and retrievers loved it, and the little ones just blinked a lot and looked uncomfortable. But they were all pretty well-behaved and entertaining at times. I was impressed that most of them didn't really care. They just went along and did their business and it was just a little soggier than usual.
People can really freak out when it rains like that...drivers get reckless and impatient, people without umbrellas dash under awnings and into doorways. And the people with the umbrellas inevitably end up clinging to the lifeless and fractured remnants of nylon and metal, hoping to fend off the rain from at least the tops of their heads.
So despite some really sopping clothes (and a water-logged and now broken cell phone), my first (and only?) few days of bona fide summer vacation turned out to be really great.
There's nothing like the company of loved ones and dogs on a rainy day to make you smile.
And so we meet another rainy day in early July. If you want to look on the bright side, at least it's not snow...
Things are moving right along nonetheless. I've officially quit my day job, and the freedom is nice. I took the liberty of electing the first few days of my unemployment as a sort of summer vacation. Which would have been great, had the weather held up a little better...
On Wednesday, I decided to follow Jake on his dog walking route. All of our trusted weather sources claimed that the rain was going to hold off until the afternoon. Lo and behold, about 3 dogs into the day, it was POURING. Luckily the humidity kept things warm enough at the start that it was fun to be stuck in such torrents with big friendly dogs who liked the rain. We were soaked in seconds. It brought me back to times in grade school when you'd have a field trip and get stuck outside at the zoo or something in the pouring rain and have no choice but to jump in puddles and make the best of it. So that's what we did.
Most of the dogs we walked didn't really mind the weather, they just kept shaking themselves out and kept on walking. The big labradors and retrievers loved it, and the little ones just blinked a lot and looked uncomfortable. But they were all pretty well-behaved and entertaining at times. I was impressed that most of them didn't really care. They just went along and did their business and it was just a little soggier than usual.
People can really freak out when it rains like that...drivers get reckless and impatient, people without umbrellas dash under awnings and into doorways. And the people with the umbrellas inevitably end up clinging to the lifeless and fractured remnants of nylon and metal, hoping to fend off the rain from at least the tops of their heads.
So despite some really sopping clothes (and a water-logged and now broken cell phone), my first (and only?) few days of bona fide summer vacation turned out to be really great.
There's nothing like the company of loved ones and dogs on a rainy day to make you smile.
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11:08 AM
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