"Weekly Woof" Dog Blog
Posted: Wed, Feb 3rd, 2010 at 4:38 PM by Cynthia Cherry-Schif
February 3, 2010
I'm planning a summer friendship garden. It will be on the border of our property line that we share with our neighbors. The garden will have four separate areas, divided by strips of grassy area and decked out with a tee pee of Black Eyed Susans and a table and chairs in the middle so I can enjoy the view with my neighbor kids. Right now, though, it is a series of sketches...a black and white blueprint looking for warm weather to bring it to life.
Making garden plans this time of year, reminds me of the promise of spring and the first day I lean on the deck railing and look to the ground to find an exquisite array of color bursting up at me. The surprise that life is renewed and hope really does spring eternal.
I wonder if my dogs dream of spring melting into summer and the days they spend most of the time outside, rolling in the grass, running with the kids and panting on the deck during their own special days of summer? I do know they smell it on the way, right now, just a tease on the breeze.
Continue Reading Story »
Tags: spring, smell
"Weekly Woof" Dog Blog
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th, 2010 at 11:44 AM by Cynthia Cherry-Schif
January 29, 2010
Baby, it's cold outside! I try to be a good dog mama, and take my dogs out for a run almost every day, but it's been so cold here, that if the least little breeze kicks up, my face feels as though it's being shredded by needles.
Living with an older dog, who is ailing with ACL pain, and another in the prime of her life poses a daily wrestle with my own guilt. One dog needs a heavy workout. The other a quiet walk around the neighborhood. And I'm not sure I want to do either one!
My own achy back and joints make it difficult to horse two big dogs on leashes through the snow. So we take the mid-ground and head to the dog preserve, where Sophie can run like the wind and I can keep Rosco's damage to that pesky ACL at a minimum by doing the leash walk thingie.
The good news is, it can't stay cold like this for too much longer. When the weather breaks, I'm psyching myself up for two walks a day. One with the athlete and one with the geriatric. At this point, I'm not sure if that means me or the dog!
Woof,
Cynthia
Continue Reading Story »
Tags: weekly woof, dog blog
|
