Today it was raining, so we went for a hike. Turns out it was a lot wetter than I'd originally thought and we got completely soaked. So soaked that my coat weighs 3 pounds too many. On the way to the trails there was so much water on the road that the Jeep "lifted off" a couple times. It didn't skid or hydroplane, it just wasn't as solid as I'd liked it to have been.
My camera was having a fit due to the odd lighting so almost none of the pictures are good. Anyways... this is what we did.
Was not happy.
Conker wasn't too thrilled to be out in the rain. We trudged on and I made it fun for him by chasing him around. At first I attempted to keep my feet somewhat dry but I abandoned that quickly in favor of trying to splash Conker as he avoided the puddles.
The trail is getting foggy.
As we climbed higher he began to loosen up and eventually ignored the rain and acted like he normally does on a hike. Then we noticed something a bit odd.
Clouds!
GP gets a lot of low clouds but this was the first time I'd been in one in years. It's incredibly moist (even moreso if it's raining, which it was and never stopped during the hike) and it feels very odd to breathe.
Rain and clouds make Conker look old and worn out.
We goofed off in the clouds for a bit and I got Conker to run through a couple large puddles. This was funny since even though he and I were both soaked and his feet were plenty wet, he still has his Shiba dignity and would only set foot in a puddle if he must do so, or if it meant getting to bite my jacket.
Blurry makes this picture suck.
Overall the hike was a ton of fun. Now I remember why I love being out in the rain, and thankfully Conker had a lot of fun too. I didn't want to have to leave him home or in the Jeep if the rain was too much for him, and now that I know he doesn't mind I don't need to worry about future rain hikes.
It's kinda hard to see how cloudy it was in the pictures, so here's a video of us messin around.
We went hiking in the rain today. It was more fun that I thought it would be.
We'd already gone on our standard 2 mile walk with a stop at MPM on the way home, but I figured that since tomorrow is supposed to be 38 degrees that we'd hike today. It was raining when we got there but after a couple minutes Conker was ignoring it and being his normal obnoxious self.
This picture would have been better if Conker's face wasn't blurry.
We did something like 5 miles or so and surprisingly Conker is OUT right now. Normally he putters around for a while and harasses Indy before he sacks out after a hike. I guess today he burnt off all his energy stepping off the trail into the burr grass and getting burrs stuck allover his stupid fur then running off when I yelled at him.
It's looked like this outside for... a long time. I'm so sick of it. Rain, constantly. And not even cool rain like thunderstorms and wind and such. Boring barely-more-than-a-drizzle rain. I really don't like the northwest.
Because of this stupid weather I haven't done anything fun or even remotely interesting. Conker is getting on my nerves since we don't go for walks when it constantly rains like this.
I haven't taken any of the dogs to the dog park for a while so today I mustered up the effort and took them. All three. We walked. Mom was all "Are you crazy? Can you handle all three of them at once?" I was like "Pfft, you underestimate my awesomeness." And off we went.
Sasha and Conker were on the right, Juneau the left. Juneau always gets her own side since she requires the most work. She is constantly trying to get ahead of the other dogs, she pulls no matter the leash length and any sort of prey-like critter grabs her unwavering attention. Sasha and Conker go well together since they both travel at about the same speed, they both respond well to slight tugs on the leash and generally don't pull as ferociously as Juneau will.
We safely made it to the dog park, Juneau heeling most of the way, Sasha and Conker getting a bit more freedom. Until we reached the fence. There were two dogs already there, a red Siberian Husky and a Boxer/Great Dane mix named Logan. I've met Logan before and Conker was excited to see him. Juneau and Sasha on the other hand, they tried to charge and barked up a storm until I was able to get them back under control.
For the most part all the dogs got along. Conker did his usual act afraid of the other dogs then run off and try to play thing while Juneau and Sasha went straight to barking at Logan. Poor guy didn't know what to do with them. Sasha got the general idea that barking equals yelling from me so she stopped. Juneau though, after another Lab entered she wouldn't quit. Not until the other Lab had at Juneau with a barking frenzy of her own did Juneau begin to back off. Sasha was always dogging the people for attention, leaning and resting her head on them. The Husky loved to be pet too but the other dogs just wanted to run. The Husky played with Conker for a while and butt-checked him a few times. Conker always tries to do that to Juneau and Sasha but it never works. It was funny seeing a bigger dog to it back to him.
The dogs generally played good for a while. The other three all left around the same time. As the Husky was leaving Conker decided to scrap with Juneau and made a huge show for Sasha who stood around wagging her tail like nothing was going on. We stuck around for a little while then headed down to the creek since all three dogs were full of mud from the near-constant rain we've been getting for the past week. I discovered that Conker WILL go into the water if the other dogs do it first, that was kinda unexpected. He usually wants nothing to do with it.
