Yesterday was  lazy.  It rained nearly all day, and Katie and I napped several times.  Sometimes I’d wake up and think that I should get something done, but usually thoughts like these were only  passing through.  A lazy rainy day with nothing that HAS to be done is a luxury I haven’t experienced as far back as I can remember.  To stay cocooned in a warm blanket as I listened to rain on the roof was a lovely feeling, one to be treasured rather than questioned. 

Katie and I eventually had to get moving and prepare for doggie school.  She knew as soon as I started moving around that something was up and she went and hid in the bedroom.  Silly dog, afraid of the car ride into the great unknown.  In she went, into her crate in the back of the car, beginning her travel quiver even as I closed the crate and lowered the car gate.  She panted and paced the entire trip to school, and once out of the car and inside the pole barn, alongside 15 other (generally larger) barking dogs she stuck to my leg like a burr.

We didn’t get much done on this first night of school.  The instructor talked and we sat on benches and tried to control our restless dogs while we listened.  They were like little kids on the first day of school, no rules, no agreeded upon behavior, just normal doggy sniffing and whining and pulling and sighing and jumping and barking.  They all wanted to get GOING for heavens sake.  Hopefully next week we will be more active.  Katie was glad, this time, to be back in the car.

At home, later in the evening Katie made a quick inspection of the house, then collapsed in such a deep exhausted sleep that I had to physically pick her up to wake her in order for us to take our nightly walk.  And she had only 15 minutes of work at school!  Wait until we spend a whole hour learning new things!  As a previous student I know how tiring learning can be.  Oh wait a minute, most of the learning will be mine, not hers.  Sigh.  Once a student, always a student I guess!