Dog Day Afternoon

This was the view coming home today. I live at the base of the snow covered mountains. The snow elevation was about 500 feet above where I live. Close, but not close enough.



The Santa Clara River is close to my house. If it weren't for the freeway in the way, I could walk there in a couple of minutes. Because of the freeway, I need to drive a mile or so to find a place where I can drive under the freeway. I'm not sure why it's called a river, since years can go by without water in it, but river sounds nice, as opposed to the Santa Clara Rocky and Sandy Area With Burrs.

I went to work early today and got out at about noon. It was a beautiful day, there was water in the river, so it seemed like a perfect time to do something special for the dogs.

Besides, Murphy has some kind of foreign object caught in his nose and has to have some minor surgery on Friday to remove it. He deserves a special treat to help make up for what is coming.




Murphy is doing what he does at home in his pond. Just sitting down and lounging. The water is icy cold, which is fine with Murph.

I feel terrible about this, but Tommy (on the right) has never seen a natural body of water before. Tommy hates water so I expected him to just walk along the banks, but to my surprise, he ran right into the water. Who knew that my little frou frou dog was a water dog?

Are these happy looking dogs or what? You should see what the inside of my car looks like.