Day Two -- Ruby Friday!

Ruby Friday!  A Pair of Gems!  Both emerged from crowded slumber with unanticipated delights, cool and precious, yawning and stretching their presence into our consciousness, full of the bright promise of possibility.  

After breakfasting from a "kong" on the living room rug and wood floor, Ruby wanted walkies.    Our first "shift" consisted of a two-mile trek north from Marietta to Hartford to Shepard.  A block further north along Lake Drive, and then back again.  A good stretch of the eight legs in our little pack.  Lots of stopping and sniffing, discovery.  

Ruby seems to be a critter of habit, like most of us.  She made a morning deposit along a strip of boulevard adjacent to the common space just south and west of our lodgings.  She made a secondary deposit directly into a sack, amid the admiring gawks and comments of passers-by, undoubtedly suggesting, "Ohmygosh!  Look at that, mamma, daddy, that doggie made poopies into a bag.  Could we train Sheldon to poop in a bag?  Ohmygosh!"  

A few larger doggies on our route barked their greetings, or perhaps theirs were sounds of envy, as Ruby was gamboling happily while the bigger dogs were gaping and yapping from their fenced enclosures.  On balance, however, we have to report that once back home, Ruby regained her newly-favorite perch on the sunporch couch, spotted a squirrel, a rabbit, a couple of passing doggies and a chipmunk, amid a few barks and howls of hello, or were they protest?!

Our second trek was just a mile long roundtrip to Downer and Webster and the Starbucks on the corner, where we sipped our respective Frappacino and iced coffee.  Ruby enjoyed a rest under a shaded table and watched the people pass by.  Ruby's walking behavior has improved by leaps and bounds compared to last month's foray with Rob and Sue.   Ruby has quietly enjoyed our walks while those around her bellowed obstreperously.  At one point Ruby asked, "Why can't they behave themselves?"  She added, "Noisy beasts think they own the doggone neighborhood!"