Delayed

I haven't written for awhile. It's because I am transitioning computers. My batteries also died in the camera I was using to take pictures. I was also traveling back east to visit a sick friend.

But it was interesting when I pulled up to the house: My housemate was watching Othello Moose, and a storm had come through with pretty high winds over the past few days and blew the gate open, unbeknownst to him. Othello took advantage of this situation, and scouted the neighborhood. I guess he did no harm to anything, and when I pulled up to the house, he was sitting on the front porch a though he knew I was going to pull up.

It reminded me of doing post Katrina animal rescue in  St. Bernard Parish a few years back, and we found numerous dogs that had perished at the doors to their homes waiting for their owners to return. Probably the saddest sight of that journey.

But today we drove up into the mountains at the snow line somewhere near the Twin Sisters off Mosquito Lake Road. The log foot bridge across the creek was pretty precarious to cross, so we instead hiked around the creeks and rivers swollen from the recent rains.Yesterday he got to run through the woods at the off-leash area of  Lake Padden. He is getting better and better at coming on command, even when there are bikes, other dogs or children. 

The picture above was as we were coming down from the camping near the Coleman Glacier.