Tuesday, May 08, 2007
A Morning with Kevinmiller

Kevinmiller came over for a visit, and he was good enough to bring his human along as well. Our little outing occurs on a somewhat regular basis. The humans hop in the scooters – my human has an extra scooter – and we dogs jog along side.

We walked for several miles this time, even darted across a few fairly busy streets. Apparently the humans wanted to view some artsy water fountains and architecture. Personally the sounds of the water falling and flowing made me want to pee. Crossing the busy streets didn't help any in that area either.

Stopping to pee isn't generally an option unless I make a big fuss so we continued onward through the city streets. Most of the trip was rather uneventful until we came across these very large, odd smelling creatures. No the humans weren't sweating that badly. I'm talking about horses. This was the first time I had ever seen a horse up close and personal. Borderline of way too personal – I wasn't expecting the horse to lean in for a sniff as I did the same.

Another horse approached Kevinmiller but he wasn't about to get as close as I did. He's a great playmate but a bit of a chicken.

We also came across many flooded yards on our walk. Flooded not due to rain, this is Arizona after all, but due to irrigation flooding used to water the lawns. The humans let us stop to cool our paws in the water. Kevinmiller took it one step further and splashed around like a kid in a pool. A very shallow pool but that's beside the point.

Once home again we rested but a bit as the humans parked the scooters. Kevinmillers human wasn't demonstrating his scooter driving prowess and crashed in to a few objects resulting in the toppling of several stacks of bird seed. Just can't leave these humans unattended for a moment.

He was good enough to re-stack the seed for my human. Kevinmiller and I supervised the work from the comfort of the sofa, naturally.

That's when it happened. My human got out the nail clippers! Oh how I hate to have my nails trimmed, but after being put in a tight hold and my belly rubbed I turned to puddy in his hands. Really, I couldn't have gotten any more relaxed. Kevinmillers human even bathed me which gave me the extra vigor I needed for another wrestling match with Kevinmiller before they both headed home.

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