walks.

Now that the weather is nice, I actually enjoy taking Toby on walks.  We’ve seen all kinds of fun things.  This morning, we bumped into a guy confidently clipping lilac blooms off of a tree inside the fenced yard of a vacant house that is for sale.  He quickly switched from confidence to sheepishness but didn’t stop.  It was awesome.

Toby is twitterpated with his new girlfriend, who lives a couple of blocks away.  Her name is Missy, and she wants nothing to do with Toby; the neighborhood girls who own Missy, though, have already held a marriage ceremony for the two of them, so I don’t know that poor Missy has any choice in the matter.  Toby has never growled at another dog in his life until a dog walked by the yard in which he and Missy were playing.  He immediately jumped in between the nice, calm dog who was minding her own business and Missy and turned into crazy ferocious Toby.  Missy walked right around him and went to greet the other dog.  Ah, the joys of unrequited love.

I also discovered a mutant dandelion.  Now that it’s in bloom, it just looks weird.  When it was budding, however, I thought it might take a limb off if I got too close to it.  My flowers look WAY better (as you can clearly see in the top picture).