Swiss Miss was here

I'm done whining about the heat (for now). Today I'm going to whine about the humidity, which was at about 150% this morning. Miss Dog and I ran a Back Boardwalk loop and at times it felt like we were running through, I don't know, really thick air? Maybe an air/pudding mixture? It was the worst when we were in the woods because even though it was shady, there was no breeze. But we perservered nonetheless and made liberal use of walk breaks.

We met only one other dog, who was fortunately friendly. Here's a picture of our encounter. The other dog seemed old or was maybe just very laid-back, and Tasha was tired and panting. So they passed up the sniffing and settled for a neighborly "Hey, what's up." "Not much, how 'bout you?" instead.

Speaking of other dogs, on a conference call today we got on the topic of running, and one of the other participants said that she has a yellow lab that she takes on 6-7 mile runs! That sort of makes Tasha and I look like slackers. But I've run a marathon (exactly one) and Tasha used to be a professional prize-winning athlete. So we've earned the right to tone it down a bit. Especially when the air has been blended with pudding.