St. Patrick's Day

Today Doug and I took Hugo to Shaggy Pines dog park.  We walked the loop through two fenced in grassy fields where dogs can run and play then through the wooded areas around the now fenced off and drained pond.  Hugo kept to the fence line sniffing the wonderful smells that were left by whatever creatures had recently passed through the adjacent woods and fields.  We walked the loop two times which totaled about two miles.  Blowing fiercely in our faces, the wind was brisk at points during our trek.  The sun was shining, the snow was melting, and the black Michigan earth was wet and muddy.  At the end of our walk Hugo spotted his friend, Forrester.  Like Hugo he was once a resident at Mackenzie's Animal Sanctuary.  They were there at different times but when they first met it was as though they were greeting a long lost friend.  They spotted each other across one of the fields and then ran like crazy towards one another.  Sniffing and wagging their tails so happy to see each other and then they began playing.  Each time they see each other it is the same.  It is a joy to watch.  After we said good-bye to Forrester we went into the club house to rinse the mud off of Hugo.  We ended up giving him a bath.  Hugo doesn't like getting a bath and it was a struggle to get him into the tub.  Once home our very shiny, clean, and minty smelling boy Hugo slept soundly.  I made a Tunisian cod soup for dinner that was deliciously warming.  Doug and I watched a little TV and so ends another weekend.