Great morning folks! Okay-okay! I know I haven’t updated
this blog in a long time but it’s been a rough (hold on-let me figure it out… a
little over 30 days). To be honest, I really thought it was more than
that.
I told you all when I first started running again that I
wouldn’t stop running and I didn’t. I just wasn’t as focused as I was when I
first started. I had a whole lot of personal stuff going on and I had to get my
shit together (excuse my French). The
life issues weren’t all bad. Some were in fact very good issues but I had very
little time to sleep in the last few weeks let alone update a blog. I did
manage to get some run/walking in. I was averaging about 2-3 days a week, which
is not bad but not good either.
In any event, I’m back and plan to be here for a while. I’m
going to do my best to update as often as I can. I will now only count days
that I actually run/walk and blog. I can’t be so bothered trying to figure out
how many days have actually passed in between blogging. If someone out there
wants to take the time and figure all that out, go ahead and be my guest. I’ll
post your exact number underneath my own.
So this morning I ran/walked about 2 ½ miles. I did whole
thing with my two puppies and adult dog. Oh yeah. I now have an adult- two-year
old German shepherd dog AND I’m down to two puppies. I swear I need to change
the title of this blog to “My Goal To Only Have Two Dogs.” Okay, let me
explain…
My daughter’s white boxer (Jane) that she LOVED so much was
not getting along with my German shepherd puppy. I was in the process of
training the two puppies to get along when my daughter lost her damn mind for
about a week (let’s not dwell on the details), and I decided I had enough of her
and her damn dog. Anyway, since she wasn’t helping me take care of the dog that
she BEGGED me to let her get, I sent the dog to live with her dad. If I could
have sent her with the dog I would have but she’s my baby and I’d miss her too
much, but back to the story. I originally only wanted to have two dogs so I
figured this was the perfect opportunity to get rid of one, still be able to
see her often and not totally relieve my daughter of the responsibility that
she took on. Her dad has been great about it.
He actually loves Jane and takes her everywhere with him. I was finally down
to two puppies (Sara and Julie) and my daughter regained her senses after a
couple of days and life was good until…
Once upon a time, there was this dog by the name of Cheyenne
who needed a home. I won’t go into all of the intricate details, but I was kind
of babysitting to figure out what we were going to do with her and then she and
I fell in love. She is the greatest dog ever. I can’t believe how smart she is.
She is already house broken, loves me to death and obeys far better than these two
little puppies. She has made me a believer in adopting adult dogs. If you
provide them with a loving home, they just fall right into place. I won’t say
it was a complete breeze because those puppies irked every bit of her nerves
the first day here but in the end, she learned to tolerate them. By the way, she is a WONDERFUL guard dog. I
feel sorry for anyone who saunters up on my property without me. Yes I have signs posted so enter at your own
risk. I now have THREE dogs again. Go figure.
Anyway, today’s run/walk was great. I did not keep track of
my actual distance with my handy dandy Nike + app because who can do all of
that whilst run/walking with three dogs. I’m sure I did at least 2 ½ miles
because three times around the neighborhood equals just over a mile and I did
five or six times around. I can’t remember exactly how many times we went around. I do know it was at least five times. The dogs all
walked properly beside me and jogged when I jogged. The looked forward to my short sprints. I'm not THAT good where I can just be sprinting long distances. All in all, we had NO issues. Like I
said I had been walking the puppies over the last month so they were use to it.
Cheyenne joined right in with no problem. All is well at the Parker Dog Ranch.
To get some more exercise in today, I think I will go to the
track later and try to do a 5k and time myself then. I don’t know. I will see.
I will let you know if it happened tomorrow.
Until then…
Ms. P.
