the morning routine....

I've had a summer-morning/dawn patrol routine for a while now.... Get up at dawn and ride my bike or kayak for a while. This summer though I spent alot more mornings walking the dog....really, most of them.

In the winter I used to sleep late as I could... like 8 on the weekends. Thats late. Now that Snoopy is being a little less of a puppy, we're sleeping a little later, but not much. I'm up at the crack of dawn again in the winter too. Up with the roosters and the farmers and the paper delivery folks.

So... When we get up Snoopy and I take a walk up to the pond every morning. Kinda neat to see a spot change with the seasons and all. At the pond, the ice is thinning out a bit, but I expect it will be back before spring really breaks through.
Snoopy learned about thin ice the hard way... sniffing out something that had walked out on the ice and poking a foot through at the edge.

Here he is on his 1st birthday. Yup. Snoopy was born on Groundhog's day last year.

Spring seems to be getting close... I saw some robins on the way home sunday morning... must be a new record... Feb 3rd! Watch out for Global Worming!

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