This is not the most complimentary photo of Hapi but it is what she looks like now. It will all grow back but she does look fragile in this photo, compared to how she looked in her youth, in the header photo above.
Yesterday afternoon at the Reservoir Hapi and I were walking with Owen and his owners. Owen is a bit larger and a bit slower than Hapi. We met up with a young man and his St Bernard dog. The dog was hilarious. Full of energy he ran around and around us, in and out of the woods and checked out Owen until Owen growled at him. He generally carried on like a crazy dog, we were all laughing at him. Compared to the St Bernard, Hapi looked like a skinny minny and fortunately the bigger dog left her alone, he seemed to at least know better about that.
But he was crazy. His owner, not a small man himself, told us non-stop stories about this dog and its former mate, Wiser and Ram. Mostly about how out-of-control they were. They broke windows and scaled ten-foot high walls. On more than one occasion the police were called. Unfortunately on one of their escapades they ran out into the highway and Ram was hit and killed, he was the bigger of the two.
When we got back to the parking lot the young man and his dog squeezed themselves into a small car, in which all of the fabric ceiling had been torn and was hanging in tatters around their heads. The dog stuck his huge head out one window and the man waved to us from another window as they drove off. They were just so funny, we stood in the parking lot laughing and laughing.
I forgot my technology Sabbath over the holidays but picked it up again yesterday. It was a slow quiet day, except for the Ram and Wiser stories. I was going to make a zucchini banana bread but the recipe was on my computer so I will do it today. It is a gorgeous sunny day, we have not seen the sun since sometime last year. Owen's owner was saying she was talking to someone who was asked if there was one thing she would like to change in the new year, and that person said that they would like to see the sun. It seemed like a very surprising answer, given all the stuff that is going on now, but when you think about it, sunshine changes everything.
When we got back to the parking lot the young man and his dog squeezed themselves into a small car, in which all of the fabric ceiling had been torn and was hanging in tatters around their heads. The dog stuck his huge head out one window and the man waved to us from another window as they drove off. They were just so funny, we stood in the parking lot laughing and laughing.
I forgot my technology Sabbath over the holidays but picked it up again yesterday. It was a slow quiet day, except for the Ram and Wiser stories. I was going to make a zucchini banana bread but the recipe was on my computer so I will do it today. It is a gorgeous sunny day, we have not seen the sun since sometime last year. Owen's owner was saying she was talking to someone who was asked if there was one thing she would like to change in the new year, and that person said that they would like to see the sun. It seemed like a very surprising answer, given all the stuff that is going on now, but when you think about it, sunshine changes everything.
2 comments:
Sunshine does change everything. Hapi looks fine, much better than when she was all bedraggled.
Your dog story had me laughing out loud as I could see it all so clearly. I've known outlandishly large dogs, completely out of control and the roof, LOL.
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A little sunshine does wonders in climes where it isn't seen frequently, but, frankly, I don't mind in the least whenever we have a little less of it here in the SoCal summers especially.
Hapi looks good in her coat considering all she's been going through. Quite a contrasting look from when she was younger I must admit.
Sounds like Wiser was in charge and his owner was actually Wiser's pet.
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