Today was a nice easy day --- slept in, went to the market and bought a few things, went to Wal-mart and bought a few more things, went to the grocery store and bought some groceries, went to the pet store and bought Zaph a flinger, went to the gas station and bought some fuel. Hmm..... sort of an expensive day but it was fun.

In case you don't know what a flinger is, it's a stick maybe 18 inches to 2 feet long that has a cup at the end to hold a tennis ball. Using an overhead forward motion causes the ball to "fling" into the air ---- the dog then has much fun chasing the ball and returning it (hopefully) to the "flinger". Anyone who knows Zaph knows this process can be repeated many times. Zaph's flinger had been left at home but as he has been joining in with other dogs we decided to buy him a new one.

We're going to take about two weeks to get to Texas and plan on staying in some state parks (no Internet) so the blogging may be sporadic. Will catch up when I can.