03.06.13

Day 11 of our DSL outage
morning run:
Godzilla
Gowron
Daisy
Luna
Petey
Lex
Amber
Tori
(8)

To the swimming hole the long way: ~7k. Friday I went to Mérida to cuss out a manager about our DSL/phone outage in what turned out to be an all-day affair, Saturday the remnants of hurricane Barbara hammered us repeatedly and Sunday Roni and I cleaned up and spent the whole day shoring up our storm defenses for rainy season, which caught us less prepared than we might like. Today was the first day it made sense at all to consider taking some dogs out for a peek at the monte, or as Tori might call it: TORI FUN WATER PLACE!!!!! Any puddle is her playground and today the charcos were all full to overflowing from the torrential downpours of Friday and Saturday. Our usual way out was almost up to my knees for ~300m or so but no matter, nobody minded - especially Tori and PupG, who swam at every opportunity on this run. We took the parallel access road to Au Soleil Couchant via the back trails, hit the swimming hole, looped back north from the intersection to avoid the triangular intersection where we ran into strays and dead chickens and ducked over to the charcos to the north by means of the little trail that goes from the road to the little wooden shack. Everywhere we went there was ample opportunity for aquatic hijinx. I had to put Tori on the leash about halfway through the run because she was too enthusiastic, too far ahead and not listening as well as I wanted her to. She is definitely getting the hang of this whole LETS GO RUNNING DAD!! routine and needs some discipline on every run to reign her in; still, it's hard to get mad at her given what she's been through and how big a change it must be to go from being stuck on a roof forever to living with a big pack of friendly dogs and going out for running and swimming. Everyone else was stellar. Amber got a little freaked out by an oncoming truck at one point on the Au Soleil Couchant road but I called her and she came over to me and let me pick her up and hold her while it went past so she didn't get stuck on the wrong side of it. The bugs were noticeable near the end and are obviously going to get cranked up in intensity now.
GRADE: A