1.
Driving into the Container Store parking lot yesterday, I saw the most remarkable traveling trio. A man in a wheel chair was riding through the parking lot from busy San Pedro.
That, alone, would have been noteworthy.
But he was being led by one dog and followed by the other--no leashes anywhere.
Once parked, I stopped to talk to him. A recent amputee named Joe, he was happy to talk about his dogs, Dusty and Doo Dah. Dusty was a beautiful sleek black dachshund and Doo Dah, with his copper and white coat, could have been a relative of Luci--except that he had a scary bark on him.
Luci was attracted to the quiet little Dusty and not particularly interested in the barker who was giving her a noisy what-for.
"He's scared shitless of everybody," Joe said. "He just barks because he's scared. It don't mean nothing."
I was curious. How did they navigate traffic? How did he keep two dogs so close to him without leashes?
He shrugged. "They's no other way. If I want to go someplace they go." Dusty, his human engaged in conversation, wandered a few feet away to sniff some tires. But all Joe had to do was say "Come on back here, Dusty" and he came right back.
2.
I got home with my new shelves in time for my excellent new handyman to install them.
He showed me a picture on his phone--a project he did for one of his clients.
After he built her wall of tables, look what she did with it!
3.
Elena's big catch--from pics sent by her dad of their weekend fishing trip, a girl after her daddy's (and her granddaddy's) heart!
4.
The Learys at the Cherry Blossom Festival this weekend in D.C.
Here is Day's accompanying text:
"It was amaaaazing. There were these teams who flew kites to music and coordination with each other! It made me cry because there was all this joy all over the entire mall even though there’s shitty politics. No one cared about anything but the wind and the beautiful kites."
I want to go there next year!
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