Its 68 degrees outside, and the sky is covered completely in clouds. The pups and I made a trip to the dog park to get some exercise and enjoy the cool weather. Earlier this week I brought them to the park because they were just insanely running around the house. It was bright and sunny in Grant but I could see some dark clouds to the west (where the park is). I decided to risk it anyways .. thinking we could get a little playtime in before the rain came. I was wrong. When I pulled up to the park I ran the dogs upto the gate .. put them in the waiting area and ran back to the car for my umbrella and the downpour started. I swear it must’ve rained 5 inches in the 3 minutes we were out of the car! The park attendant pulled up and said there was lightning in the area and we have to stay in our cars, the park is closed. While he was talking to us .. I was trying to get the leashes on the pups while holding an umbrella that was just small enough to let all the water pour off it, right down the back of my pants. When I finally got their leashes on I tried to get them to walk around a bit so they might ‘use the facilities’ since it took us a half hour to get there. But they just looked up at me with these super sad faces like ‘what are you doing to us’. So I decided to get them back in the car and just go home .. so I try to get them into their crate in the backseat and of course they dont climb in it right away and shake themselves off all over my nice leather seats. (All while my back half hangs out the door of the backseat, getting soaked) Finally I wrangle them into their crate, zip it up .. and get on the road .. soaked to the bone. I thought the worse was over .. but not even half way home they some how managed to get the crate unzipped and were rolling all over the back seat, shaking off the water, jumped into teh front seat and proceeded to roll over the passenger seat to dry off! I was livid! If I pulled over to try to get them back in their crate I would get soaked again .. so I just let them do their thing .. put the AC up to 83 and focused it on the feet .. and they chilled out and dried off eventually .. and luckily the car still doesn’t smell too much like dog.

Lots of updates today .. nothing like a cloudy day to get you to stay inside and blog