Day 106

It was a beautiful day on the Island and Captain and I continued to tradition of no alarm clocks on Sunday mornings like she and my Papa used to do and did while he was home. It was nice since she got home late last night. We still awoke early and toured the Island, but it was a little later than during the week and it felt nice to wake up when we were both ready. The sun warmed our faces and the breeze reminded us it was spring. I even tasted the grass a couple of times just to remind myself what summer tastes like. Throughout the day we kept returning to the sun for tours around different parts of the Island. We toured the usual am path by the burned house and they had these huge metal containers out in front and men in masks carrying buckets out into the containers. It looked messy and Captain kept me on the other side of the street. Doesn't she know I need to check it out; that is the point of the tour. Once we got home we had a nice breakfast together and enjoyed some R and R in the man cave. Then, Captain went out for a run and I had a nice time in the house alone. She came home when I didn't expect her (I mean she was gone for 3 hours running yesterday so I thought she'd be gone longer today but she came home after just over an hour) and surprise me. She found the half of the corn cob that was on the rug and took it away. I hadn't eaten but even 2 of the little nubby things and was not even sure what it was. She kept asking where it came from since we don't have anything like that here, but I wouldn't give her my secrets. We went on a lot of tours today. We toured the circle around the dog park, the street near the diamond shaped grassy area, and even downtown on three separate walks. I was mostly good each time. With all the walking, I think Captain hoped that my nails would wear down, but they just get sharper and more pointy so she had to use the tickle machine to grind them down.


On our last long walk of the day, we went downtown and Captain tied my least to a pole while she went into a store. I could see her through the glass and knew she could see me, so I was very good. I just sat and stayed in sit while watching for her. She came out and was so proud of me. I don't know why she didn't give me the good smelling bag she came out of the store carrying, but it sure smelled good. I was good the entire walk hoping I'd get a bite, but she didn't share. She made up for it by making me lots of yummy cookies in the new oven and letting me lick the peanut butter jar completely clean.