It's been a girls weekend around here...I've been puppysitting a friend's CCI pup named Idelle since Thursday night. That's her on the left, Hope on the right, in the picture above at Folsom Lake today.
Yesterday, we spent all day helping out at UC Davis Picnic Day at the CCI booth. It was looong day for us as we got there at about 7:30 and didn't get home til about 5:30pm. Poor Idelle was exhausted and Hope was so energetic when we got home that I left Idelle at home to rest and took Hope on a walk, just the two of us. Here is a picture of Idelle and Gerrit with the granddaughter of one of our puppy raiser friends. We took her with us when we went to watch the parade. The dogs did great and weren't bothered by all the activities and noises of the parade.
Today was a relaxing day and the weather was beautiful! We went out to Folsom Point at Folsom Lake and parked on one side of the lake and walked to the other side towards El Dorado Hills. The girls had fun swimming. Well, Hope had fun swimming for a stick and Idelle had fun stealing it from her when she got close to shore (hmmm...just like Nick does...).
Here's Idelle coming in for the "steal"....
Unfortunately, we saw two rattlesnakes today too. Its definitely rattlesnake season now that the warm weather has arrived. The first one we saw was actually pointed out to us by a guy on the trail just ahead of us...it was teeny baby one that was barely as thick as a pencil, but you could already make out the rattles. He said it crossed the trail and he almost stepped on it. We saw the 2nd one on the hike back to the car. It was huge, probably about 3 feet long, it crossed the trail right right in front of us; there was no missing this one. I tried to use heavy footsteps (ie, make noise) on the narrower parts of the trail just in case. Yikes....
Other than the rattlesnake sightings, it was a fun Girls Weekend ...
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