Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Tuesday travels



Yesterday I started my day at a core and balance class. It held a surprising number of men, which took a little getting used to.
It changed the conversation a bit, too, as they relayed events from their previous day’s round of golf while we all stretched and strained. I definitely need to go to this class more often, judging by my thighs’ reaction today to all those lunges.


  
        In the afternoon we packed up Mamie and drove to check out the Oscar Scherer state park, only about 4 miles away. She enjoyed all the new smells and we experienced a bit of Florida that hadn’t been beaten into submission by our army of condo gardeners. 



 


This sign posted next to the beach at a small pond, though, was a bit daunting.
But apparently not for this mother 
and her two small children.


          Next, we stopped off at the kennel where we’ll need to park Mamie at the end of next week. We have a family gathering across state, which will mean an overnight. We’re going to leave her there for a couple of hours this Thursday as a trial run – as far as I know this will be her (and definitely my)  first kennel experience ever. This place comes highly recommended, but it looked to me like a Russian gulag, all concrete and chain link fencing. I have to keep telling myself that she’s a dog, and doesn’t need pictures on the wall and rugs underfoot.

          To make up for our future plans for her, we finished with a trip to a local orange grower where we all had ice cream. She was very enthusiastic about that.  


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  1. Ice cream, shorts...seems like a distant memory to me.

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    1. I know - I shouldn't be dangling my sandals in front of sun-starved Northerners.

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  2. It seems to me Mamie is living a very good life.

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    1. Let's see if she agrees after a day in the gulag.

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  3. That sign would keep me out of the water.
    Good luck with your trip and with the test run of the kennels.

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  4. I'm sitting here in shorts, a t-shirt, and barefoot. fortunately for us, we can rely on my sister for doggie day care or overnighters.

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  5. I hope the kennel works out for you and Mamie. I look forward to hearing about it. :-)

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  6. That sign would have me several meters away from the edge of the lake, I've seen on TV how far those alligators can lunge.
    I hope Mamie is okay at the kennel, probably she'll get lots of attention and be fine.
    A couple of years ago, my aching thighs were enough reason for me to give up riding my bike, a bad move in retrospect, but a good idea at the time.

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  7. That Mom must be nuts. I wouldn't take a chance. I hope Miss Mamie likes her overnight quarters:)

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  8. I love Oscar Scherer SP. I went camping there with a friend about 30 years ago (!) when Nokomis was literally just a wide place in US 41. (Which I think may have been two lanes back then -- or maybe four.) Alligators normally won't attack people. It's really only a risk when they've been fed by humans. When I was a kid we had a gator in our lake and we used to swim there -- we'd just keep an eye on him as he floated out in the distance!

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    1. Steve, I'm simultaneously impressed and horrified!

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