Scenes along the river

The pups continue to bond with each other.  They have free roam of the back yard during the day, and don't mind being crated at night.  Hansi doesn't wrestle with Gretel as much anymore.  Instead, he wants to play.  He is the assertive one and she is the quiet cuddler.  Hansi slept near Sadie for a while and Sadie didn't mind. 

The heat tired us all today.  It's going to be in the upper 90s for at least the next ten days.  The dogs lay around the patio and in the cooling dirt, including the pups.  They have taken over the area that Minnie had been using to stay cool.  (Minnie still hasn't used the kiddie pool I got for her)

I finally met Susan at 5pm to walk the river north.  It was near breezeless tonight and the water is warming up nicely, making wading in it refreshing.  We walked until we got to the southern part of the beaver dam and in those two miles we encountered a bull frog trying to camouflage itself in some river weed, a hawk, a bird call we couldn't identify, lots of small tadpoles, two ducks and a blue heron looking for that bullfrog, and a buried mandible of a cow with the teeth sticking out of the hardened mud.  We tried loosening it from the mud, but gave up when we realized that the sun had already set and we still had a mile to go to our cars.  The dogs hadn't been walked yesterday and now they were tired.

It was dark when I got back home.  We had walked 3.2 miles in two hours and the dogs were happy to be back home.

Our neighbors across the street, Jason and Linda, are now officially moved out.  They were good neighbors.  Jason said the new owner is an older woman who already wants to make changes to all the remodeling that Jason had done.  Jason is a certified carpenter who works for Mr FixIt.

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