26/11: A Dog Day
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Before I tell you about the day I want to share a little post office story with. When we were in Quartzsite I remembered that I had forgotten my friend Jack's birthday, so I bought him a "belated birthday" post card, addressed it correctly, put the correct postage on it and mailed it. I received a forwarded e-mail from Jack today --- Elizabeth at 111 Chestnut Street (Jack`s street address) in Massachusetts had received his postcard. She looked him up on the web, e-mailed him and put the post card back in the mail (what a nice person). Elizabeth confirmed the post card was addressed correctly. Wonder if Jack will get the card this time. The US postal service is an amazing thing.
Started the day with a trip to the vet John & Carol use. Don't worry nothings wrong with Zaph, Ed and I just wanted to have Zaph's eye checked out. Zaph had an ulcer on his cornea that had not healed when we left home and paranoia mom wanted to make sure it was better and it hooray!!!! it was.
Next stop of the day was a dog beach (there are several in the San Diego area). This was a large sandy beach at the mouth of a river.
This photo was taken at the end of the beach visit --- no way would Zaph had stood still when we first got to the beach.
Zaph and Barry romping around.
Caught it!!!!
Kersplash!!! I`ll get it.
Can anyone join this game? Zaph doesn't care who is throwing a ball, he just joins in the fetching part. He's also very good at training complete strangers to throw the ball for him.
"Hodad's has been recognized as one of the top 5 burger joints in the country by CNN with Hodad's being the only west coast restaurant to get recognized." Loved the "car table" and reading license plates is always fun. Ed was intrigued by one of the items on the menu ---- All you can eat a mere $100 --- must be some pretty big eaters out there. Zaph missed out on this stop but I did save him a piece of my burger. Oh, the burgers were good and so were the onion rings and milk shakes.
About a 1/4 mile from John & Carol's condo is Balboa park. So to complete "Dog Day" we took Zaph and Barry to the Park. This park is a lot like Central Park in New York City ---- it has several museums, theatres, dog park, cactus garden, rose garden, fountains, trails, zoo, etc. Pretty amazing place and plan to visit the zoo in a couple of days .... the have koala bears, pandas and polar bears.
One neat tree.
John and Ed had gone into the Botanical building while the dogs and I remained outside. Barry stared at the door the entire time waiting for John to come back while Zaph happily accepted petting.
Many of the buildings were very ornate and I particularly liked this one. At first glance the photo on the right looks like one of those pictures taken by accident when your camera is dangling around your neck. Look closely at the rungs in the railing. Ed and I had stopped to look at the coy in the pond and a certain someone decided he needed to see what everyone was looking at. Zaph shocked a couple of women when he slid between them and stuck his head through the railing. Luckily, the women thought it was funny.
One funky cactus tree that Ed and I had never seen before. Unfortunately no sign so we don't know what it is. Nice to see roses blooming away at the end of November.
Sipping a glass of wine and watching the sunset after an amazing day.
Started the day with a trip to the vet John & Carol use. Don't worry nothings wrong with Zaph, Ed and I just wanted to have Zaph's eye checked out. Zaph had an ulcer on his cornea that had not healed when we left home and paranoia mom wanted to make sure it was better and it hooray!!!! it was.
Next stop of the day was a dog beach (there are several in the San Diego area). This was a large sandy beach at the mouth of a river.
This photo was taken at the end of the beach visit --- no way would Zaph had stood still when we first got to the beach.
Zaph and Barry romping around.
Caught it!!!!
Kersplash!!! I`ll get it.
Can anyone join this game? Zaph doesn't care who is throwing a ball, he just joins in the fetching part. He's also very good at training complete strangers to throw the ball for him.
"Hodad's has been recognized as one of the top 5 burger joints in the country by CNN with Hodad's being the only west coast restaurant to get recognized." Loved the "car table" and reading license plates is always fun. Ed was intrigued by one of the items on the menu ---- All you can eat a mere $100 --- must be some pretty big eaters out there. Zaph missed out on this stop but I did save him a piece of my burger. Oh, the burgers were good and so were the onion rings and milk shakes.
About a 1/4 mile from John & Carol's condo is Balboa park. So to complete "Dog Day" we took Zaph and Barry to the Park. This park is a lot like Central Park in New York City ---- it has several museums, theatres, dog park, cactus garden, rose garden, fountains, trails, zoo, etc. Pretty amazing place and plan to visit the zoo in a couple of days .... the have koala bears, pandas and polar bears.
One neat tree.
John and Ed had gone into the Botanical building while the dogs and I remained outside. Barry stared at the door the entire time waiting for John to come back while Zaph happily accepted petting.
Many of the buildings were very ornate and I particularly liked this one. At first glance the photo on the right looks like one of those pictures taken by accident when your camera is dangling around your neck. Look closely at the rungs in the railing. Ed and I had stopped to look at the coy in the pond and a certain someone decided he needed to see what everyone was looking at. Zaph shocked a couple of women when he slid between them and stuck his head through the railing. Luckily, the women thought it was funny.
One funky cactus tree that Ed and I had never seen before. Unfortunately no sign so we don't know what it is. Nice to see roses blooming away at the end of November.
Sipping a glass of wine and watching the sunset after an amazing day.