A Walk in the Rain

Today I decided to take Pepper for a walk when I got home from work. It was while on this walk that I came up with the idea for this blog. Well, as previously stated, I stole the idea from Chris. But I decided to try it for myself while walking in the rain with my best friend.

Rain is very rare where I currently live. I live in Southeast Washington state. It is a desert. It rains in Seattle, not here. We have 300 days of sun a year. I grew up in Michigan where it rains significantly more. Pepper doesn't care what the weather is, she loves to walk. So I put my rain coat on, grabbed a poop bag and some treats, put Pepper's leash on, and off we went.

I love the location of my house. If you look out my back windows, it looks like I live in the country, but I am 5 minutes from Wal-Mart. If I walk out my front door I have a quiet neighborhood with wide streets and paved sidewalks. If I go out the back door there is an irrigation canal with a trail next to it, ranches, and horse paddocks. I went out the back door today.

Pepper and I saw: a young cow galomping around it's field, several wet horses and a mule, two duck families, a guy grilling dinner, a lady carrying a baby, and three barking dogs. Pepper ignored everything except the ducks. She is a bird dog you see, she's bred to find them, flush them out, and go after them. She was very good though, I told her "no" and after a slight tug on the leash she went back to her walk. I gave her treats.

When we got home (I don't know how far we went or how long we were out) Pepper sat while I took my coat off and got out a towel. I rubbed her down because it is rather chilly today and I don't like wet dog smell. I then gave her a good brushing (after getting dry clothes for myself, incidentally I learned that my rain coat is not actually water proof). I then trimmed her ears because they keep getting in her food, and picking up prickers from the path. She looks goofy, but the groomer can fix it later.

While getting dry clothes I found that the cat had peed on the bed. See, we're trying to toilet train her. It was going well. Until about two weeks ago. Now I must wash the brand  new, AWESOME, blanket that I just put on the bed yesterday. Also my fancy $100 pillow :( I kind of wanted to sulk the rest of the evening, but Pepper deserved some loving. Somewhere during Pepper's loving, my pout went away. See how good a therapy dog she'd be?! She's also totally OK with big bear hugs, sobbing in her fur, and sharing her bed. A natural I tell you!

Tomorrow I think we will go for a short walk, maybe just around the neighborhood. I have an appointment with the personal trainer at 7pm! Well, I guess I'd better get to bed if I'm going to stay awake for the trainer tomorrow.