who likes belly rubs?

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august's last weekend

I was up early so I took O to Cat Hollow Park around 6:00 a.m., before the heat. She seems to like her new lead a lot. It's much longer than I realized, probably closer to ten feet than the seven or so I had in mind. It gives her more freedom of movement. She does a little better with passing cars if she has room to run a few steps, rather than being tightly confined on a short lead, which gives me more control but frustrates her. Also, if I start running whenever a car passes, she has to follow me quicker, which helps dissipate some of her energy. It's probably good for me, too, to throw a few minutes of running into our daily walks. Doggy fartlek.

When we were at the park we ran (er, shuffled) across the field a few times. She loves that - she prances and skips and smiles when we go fast. (Fast for me. Normal for her.)

A little later in the morning I rode my bike to Brushy Creek Lake Park. It was 89 when I left at 9:30 and 99 when I got home an hour later. The forecast says 108 today and 109 tomorrow. Hottest weekend of the year. Bluh.

Oh, I had some bloodwork done recently. Triglycerides = 498. My doc says I have to walk more, eat cooked veggies with every meal, and never eat sugar EVER. I have a good doctor. He was alarmed enough by the numbers to recommend more labs in six weeks, but we settled on three months - which means my next blood test will be right after Thanksgiving. No pie!?!

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Overheard at the bus stop the other day: "It doesn't feel like 105 today." I checked when I got home. She was right. It was only 103.

Bluh.

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Cool camera. But I suspect the whole dark matter thing, as an explanation for why our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate, is an illusion. Something's wrong with our frame of reference. Time and space look strange to planes, innit. Cave shadows.

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miracles do happen

Two pizzas left unattended within easy reach of a border collie and a pit bull for several hours this afternoon survived unscathed. I'd say that's exceptional self control, but the truth is probably simpler. Aries gets possessive with food. He knows enough not to get up there and get it on his own, and O knows not to get anywhere near between him and it.