Yesterday evening, during our after-dinner walk, Athena met half our neighbors' dogs, for the first time as a toddler. Marley the golden retriever, Mo the chocolate lab, a small dark pitbull, Odie the basset hound, a small gray terrier. They all came racing down toward us as we started past the yard. Marley is a sweet, submissive dog, and Odie was especially adorable with Athena. He sat himself down in front of her to greet her, wagging his tail and pointing his nose gently toward her face. Not rough and fast, like the rest.
Though we told them to "Go home!" several of the dogs followed us all on our walk and all the way home to our house. Our cat spent half the night up a tree, because Odie laid himself across our front doorway, and wouldn't budge, even after we'd gone to bed.
This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.
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