Mile Rock Beach

Yesterday we went to Corona Heights Park and Buena Vista Park. Pops always take me there when he wants quiet time so he can think while he's walking. He thinks a lot. Not much fun for me. Me, I just think of whatever's in front of me, know what I mean? No need to think about what to think. Makes me tired.

Today was a lot more fun. We went to Land's End and walked down the long stairs to Mile Rock Beach. At the end of the steps Pops let me off leash. This is an incredible place. Reminds me a lot of places I've been to before but can't figure out where, exactly. I tried sniffing around, but everything smelled fresh and new. Well, new to me, that is. Nothing reminded me of what I thought I was being reminded of. Very strange!

After a while we went back to the top. Pops always runs up the stairs. I don't know why. He always seems to get a lot of energy just when I'm tiring out. Go figure!

What a Morning!

Whew, what a morning! First, I got to run on Ocean Beach, where I chased a crow. Then Pops ran into an old buddy in this cool truck. He had two dogs in the back so we yelled at each other for a while. Yeah, that's right! Then we made our way up to Sutro Baths. When pops was busy taking pictures, I ran off down to the ruins. Lots of cool smells down there! Yeah, that's me you see in the picture! Then, when I looked back to check on Pops to see if he was mad, he was just a small orange speck up on the bluffs! Dang! I had to haul ass back up this steep hill to catch up to him. He wasn't mad. Gave me a treat and took my picture. I love him! When we got to that place where I jumped over the wall last time - you know, that time when Pops had to catch me in mid air or I would have landed in the ocean? Well, we ran into this woman with a cutie girl dog named Haupia. Mmmm... made my mouth water! She was hot, and she liked me too! Pops and the lady let us off leash and I chased her and she chased me and I chased her and... Then it got hot and we both got tired. After that, we went all the way up to our usual spot on Land's End and, whadyaknow! Some guy was sitting there with HIS dog in OUR favorite spot! Frickin' copy-cats! And the dog - what a dork! Kept whining and wanting to come to me but he was leashed, so he couldn't. I just ignored him and sat with my Pops for a while. Then it got too hot so we headed back to the car. On our way, we met yet another one of Pops' friends. She was riding a fixie (da heck is that?!) up the hill in front of the Cliff House. Whatever a "fixie" was, Pops seemed impressed. He and I ride up this hill all the time too, you know. Piece of cake! They were standing there yacking when Uncle Matt called and Kevin was on the phone too. Pops wanted to take my picture with "Fixie Chick" for MY blog, but his battery was dead. Poor Pops, he was ticked! Finally we got back to the car. I was getting pooped 'cause it was getting too hot. I'm a Northerner, you know.

At Baker Beach with my sister Trina

Woohoo! The beach, two days in a row! Today even more better - Moms and Trina Jieh-jieh came with us too. I got to chase her and I found this cool ball that I got to play with. Too cool!

I love to tun

Oh, how I love to run! Pops took me down to Ocean Beach today. This beach is SO wide! I can run all-out and never run out of space! I always look back, though, to make sure I can still see Pops. He's got treats in his left pocket and whenever I see his hand go in there I go running to him at full speed. I can tell he loves it when I do that 'cause he crouches down and does that weird human dance and says, "C'mon, boy! Good boy!" and hands me the treat. I LOVE that! Then I took a dump. A massive, manly dump right there in the middle of all that sand. Yeah, the salty air, the ocean winds blowing into my face and everything just coming out so freely... Man, life is good!