Soak up the sun

 I'm prone to exaggeration but I am not doing that when I tell you it has been at 2 weeks since we have had a sunny day!  We've seen some peeks of sun a couple of days but it was short lived.  When I leave for work it is dark and cold and when I get home from work - you guessed it - dark and cold. 

We woke up this morning and the sun was already out.  It was not windy and about 37 degrees.  That's warm for December in northern NY.  I am so happy that Booker loves to go on walks!  I don't know what we would do if he was a couch potato type dog.  But when I picked up his collar this mooring he just about went crazy.

We headed once again to the beach. It's about a 30 minute drive but it's totally worth it.

As I thought it might be, it was almost completely deserted.  That meant a lot of off leash running and playing.  Sisko is a master of recall and has done well training Booker.  For the most part Booker doesn't venture too far away from us and already - at 4 months old - he is pretty reliable when we ask him to come back.  The biggest challenge to that is when he smells something "great" - like a big dead fish.  Fortunately he did not want to roll in it, or take a bite out of it, but he also did not want to stop investigating!

It was a great morning.  Booker was able to tackle the entire 5.5 miles - which he probably did at least a mile more than that with his running around.

As we were leaving we took a quick photoshoot with the scene the park workers had set up by the entrance.  Neither of them were all that impressed LOL

Since a tired dog is a well behaved dog, we have some very good dogs here for the rest of the day!