I was out the door this morning before the sun was fully up over the horizon and met up with running buddies Connie, Randall and Anita for an eastern trail run (smooth soft trail - great for new hips!). Running with the gang is quite interesting these days: Randall is fastest and her training plan today called for the longest run, Connie is next fastest and was planning a run about 1.5 miles shorter than Randall's, and Anita and I figured we'd bring up the rear, going at just the right speed to chit chat, and turn around at 38 minutes for our out/back run with hopes of arriving at the finish just about when the others wrapped up their runs. Miraculously we all made it to the finish within about 10 minutes of each other. All these years of running together seems to have built up a rather powerful synchronicity amongst us!
Meanwhile, back at the home front, we have one amazing cattle dog celebrating his 14th birthday. We don't really know Taz's actual date of birth, but we adopted him on December 17th and the vet figured he was four months old - thus August 17th became his birthday day.
When I was getting ready to leave for my run this morning, neither Taz nor Paul's pup, Barley, were in much of a birthday party mood. I don't know why - it was already almost 5 a.m.!
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| Taz & Barley, couch puptatoes |
Later in the day, though, Taz thought partying with Paul was a fine idea!
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| Taz all smiles with his Paul boy |
All in all, I must say, we are extraordinarily lucky to have Taz the Amazing Cattle claim us as his family.
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| August, 2025: 14 years later... Taz & human still snuggling |
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| 12/17/2011: Taz's first night home |
Lets all go through the day with a cattle dog smile!
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