flipping mutt.

yesterday, i took dandy to rotary park in minden. it's a lovely park with beaches, climbers for the kids, swings, a gazebo, outdoor picnic tables, LOTS of old-growth-sized trees, all on a hard-shore peninsula in the gull river.



the access road was roped off, probably because the dirt parking lot is boggy as hell and a car would wreck it or get stuck in the "gumbo" (boot-clinging type mud). i parked across the road at kawartha dairy and walked dandy to the park. at the parking lot, i took his leash off and he went NUTS - tearing around like mad! it was so cute!

then i saw the canada geese and the ducks - a good flock of them in the lagoon. i said "go get 'em, dandy!" and he charged right off the top of the embankment, leaped clear over the entire sloping rock wall, and landed on the sand with a good two feet to spare. he charged madly into the water and THEN

the water hit his belly.

he stopped dead in his tracks, looked down at the water, looked at the geese, then looked at me and clearly said "yeah..... no. unh-unh, girlfriend. get your own damned dinner!"

he came right out of the water but all the geese started honking at him as they swam briskly away on the opposite shore. he ran alongside them, they switched directions. he ran the other way to get ahead of them, they switched and started swimming back again. he kept doing this again and again and i'm thinking "what a moroon!" - and then i saw the geese:

all floating quietly in a huddle in the middle of the water, lol.