Dog Park Wednesday

Our dog park days through the week are numbered. School is going to get started for us all pretty soon, so we grabbed our dogs (including our foster - the big yellow lab) and went to the dog park on dad's day off.

Near our house, there is a most awesome of dog parks.  It's not the kind of dog park that is essentially a fenced in football field.  Oh no! It's so much better than that!

This fenced in gully has hills and trees to climb. Best of all... there is a little stream where dad skips rocks for the boys.


The ice cold water doesn't bother the dogs.  They would swim for sticks for hours if we let them.  Try as we might, we end up about as muddy as them, wrestling the sticks out of their mouths. 



There are always little bugs to catch, and rock treasures which the kids sneak into their pockets to bring home.  But - this time the best thing was a snake.

I love snakes - they are such impossible creatures.  No legs, but with a little motivation they are faster and more graceful over land then I could ever hope to be.

I showed it to the kids, and they thought it was the coolest thing of the whole summer. It's not often we get to see critters other than dogs at the dog park.

Sigh.  I love hanging out with the boys.  I wish school would never start.