2-17-17 Friday

Some times when I sit down to write this Blog I know what I want to say, tonight I do not.  It was a good day.  Played with Hunter in the morning, worked all day and visited a friend in the evening.  Now I am tired.  I am contemplating how my blogs would be so much better if I wrote them earlier in the day with my mind a little more fresh.  Thankfully I remember what I wanted to post for my happy thing.  It seems like the most I do to prepare for the trail lately is visualize.  It is a good visual.

My happy for today involves playing ball with Hunter.  More often than I care to think about his ball rolls under my car in the driveway while we are playing.  This is an easy find compared to the amount of balls that are lost buried in the deep snow.  His ball is under the car and I am not able to reach it and the car must be moved if we are to continue playing.   I generally do this by having Hunter sit and stay next to the car while I slowly back it up with the door open watching him.  When he stops staying, I stop the car and get out.  Today I stopped the car and was moving slowly with getting out of the car when Hunter brings me the ball.  And then he drops it, at my feet, and it rolls back under the car.  He is a dog, he doesn't really get that what he just did was not a good idea.  He is supposed to get the ball and bring it to me, that is his job.  This time I bring him into the house before moving the car.  I get the ball, chuckling at the situation and then get Hunter so we can play some more before I go to work.  Later I reflected at how good it was to chuckle at the situation instead of get completely frustrated.  Hopefully this upward trend in my demeanor will continue.  😊

 Late morning sun.

Sunset.