It’s one o’clock Thursday, July 19, and time for our weekly appointment at a nursing facility. Because patients look forward to our visit, we won’t allow the hot weather to keep us away. With the temperature at 117 degrees, Bernie and Chris leap from the car and quickly scramble across the hot asphalt to …
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Stormy Saturday Morning
I know when I water the garden at five this Saturday morning; it will be an interesting day. It is a bit before dawn, the wind from the south is very strong... enough to rip the palm front ends from trees and scatter them all over the street. I decide to take the dogs to …
What’s going on?
That's what I ask myself this morning. I start to walk with good intentions... and the dogs are already almost a football field ahead of me. The route is well known; we do it daily. It's a little over a mile. However, within less than a half-mile... I suddenly decide I'd had enough. Instead of …
Dogs will be dogs
Bernie and Chris love it when I take them to the desert for their exercise. Their 5-year routine makes my task easy. Within the first 5 minutes, they both poop. Chris always picks his spot as far from me as he can. In a vacant field, I watch for him to circle a 10-foot area, …
What’s in a name?
Taking advantage of Arizona’s cool Spring weather, before the harsh triple-digit summer temperatures, we drove to New River, Arizona. It was about nine Saturday morning, March 24th. When I travel, timing is critical. I avoided traveling during Arizona’s miserable hot summers of July and August. I’ve decided the total round-trip distance is limited to four …
Surprise, Arizona
Surprise, the fastest-growing city in Maricopa County, is located in the southern part of Arizona. It is adjacent to the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. Surprise is about eighty miles from Mexico and 150 miles from California. Flora Statler, the founder of Surprise, Arizona once remarked, “I would be surprised if the town …
Mayer, Arizona
My 2018 adventure goals involved visits to various Arizona communities. What was so special about each Arizona community? Why were these communities first developed? Why did people continue living there? The statistical information about Mayer, Arizona was available in written and digital form. However, I needed to feel the experience. It’s like baking a cake. …
Boycotting dogs
6-15-18 My dogs sullenly boycotted my morning meals for the past three or perhaps four days. I prepared the meal and it just sat there. Sometime in the late morning or the mid-afternoon, both dogs ate it ─ not wolfed it down, but sort-of-nibbled at it. Did the heat affect their appetite? I found that …
The beginning of the end
It began sometime in February 2017 when my friend, Leslie, told me about this secret place where she sometimes took her dogs. Leslie and I had been exercising our dogs in the nearby desert. Shown is a photo of Leslie and her three dogs. Cargo and Cooper are the Irish Setters, and Gracie is the …
Watermelon Woes
I love watermelon. It was about seven-thirty Tuesday evening, and Bernie and Chris walked back to the car. Yes, they walked. It was still more than 100 degrees, and with that heat, it wasn’t long before they were hot and tired. June in Arizona required me to shift exercise times for the dogs. The sun …
Challenges & Adventures 