Stormy night ahead.

Watching the news last night made it sound like the world was going to come to end.  I was a bit nervous when I went out for my morning ablutions.  Would I have to swim to higher ground before I could cock my leg?  Nope!  I was a bit wet when I got back but nothing worth moaning about.  One of my neighbours was amazed that I went for a walk this morning... I still need a wee even when it rains.  So far we've got off lightly although more rain is on the way tonight.  The drainage lakes are really full but no flooding as yet.  The local amateur weather station has recorded 7.26 inches of rain so far today.  I live near the red blob on the map below.

Noah's Ark

OK, I'm looking for a lady Labrador, two elephants, two giraffes, a couple of polar bears, two giant pandas, two ladybirds, a handful of dung beetles, no make that a couple of thousand dung beetles they'll have their work cut out, oh and a dove....
Sorry, no snakes allowed.

Sink or swim

Time to get the wellies out or maybe a lifeboat.  It seems the extreme weather isn't over yet.  Not quite a hurricane but maybe a tropical storm to drench me later this week.  Boy am I looking forward to a few days of gentle English drizzle.  Labrador's are good swimmers aren't we?

Missed Me

Danger over with - Earl missed us completely!  There's still a few weeks of hurricane season left so we are not out of the woods just yet.

Keeping on the subject of weather you'd be forgiven for thinking the weather around here is controlled by some kind of intergalactic thermostat.  The holiday weekend marking the end of summer comes around and the temperature instantly drops by 10 degrees - the weekend was beautiful.  No more sweating like a polar bear in the Bahamas', just beautiful mid 20's and blue sky.  My paws hurt like heck though as my human decided she was going to be fit and healthy and walked the socks off me (if I wore socks that is).  I really enjoyed it but I wish she'd remember I'm not a teenager any more, I'm geriatric, the vet said so!

I had an early start on Saturday thanks to the Kentlands fun run.  The finish line was right outside my apartment and they started setting up at 6am.  After the third rendition of 'testing, testing, one two three' over the PA system I had no choice than to get up and out of the apartment.  Watching the runners from the window was pretty cool though.  As you can see not all the dogs were as enthralled as I was with the action.  We walked the 5K route on Sunday morning, nosing at all the big houses along the way.

I went to the park twice over the weekend which was cool.  Don't tell anyone but I had a little paddle in the lake to cool my aching paws.  It was a bit odd that my human was around all weekend.  Usually she takes a big bag containing funny looking sticks and little white balls and disappears for hours when the weather is nice.

Oh yeah, excitement... I'm going on my holidays on Thursday.  It's been months since I've met up with my friends at the kennels, I'm really excited.

Eh dogs, the action is this way...

Now that's the way to travel.  I wonder if it's big enough for me?