Day at the Lake

It was suppose to be 90 degrees today.Hot for Seattle. What's a girl and her dog to do-gather up the lounge chair,the beach sheet bottle of water and a book to not read and make my way to Lake Washington. It's been a tough week I must tell you. I haven't been working for the last couple of weeks and I have been going crazy. I don't understand how people can sit in their apathetic states and consciously not work. It is making me crazy. Anyway I don't want to make this about the lazy state of our nation- but I decided to if I were going to be depressed I would not do it in the sauna of my little house. So off we went. It was nice down at the lake and no I will not disclose where it is because it is still relatively unknown. But I got down there and there was no one there...an auspicious start to my stress free day. So Rebos of course went right for the water which I was right behind her. Immediately she spotted the log buried in the water with it's stick fetching branches sticking out. Now I know my dog child after nine years and the part I admire about her is her tenacity- when this dog sets her mind to something and in this case it was wanting that stick fetching branch she was not going to let it go. So I watched her time and time again go after this branch, sometimes biting small parts of it but not getting the whole thing, yet she didn't give up. Eventually I had to pull her off and leash her up but she would keep watching it, I know waiting until she could get back in the water to give it another try.
One of the things in my sober life today is that I get to observe these character traits whether in people or in this case my dog and think "self-you to can do that". I left thinking yesterday that if my dog can go after what she wants time and time again until she succeeds then why can't I? And here is the cosmic ha-ha she never got the stick out of the water, but I haven't seen her so happy, nor sleep any better and if I know my dog should I go back to the lake today, tomorrow or somewhere down the road- if that branch is still sticking out of the water she will try again.