Day 6 - Today I am thankful...

 

Over on Facebook, I posted my gratitude for good sleep.  This one comes up every year.  There is always one morning, at the very least, when I wake up and feel... thankful for the rest I have just had.  This is something I've been grateful for before.  I continue to be grateful for it, and try to be conscious of that morning awareness that sleep was good!

I picked a photo of Ember napping by the sliding glass door to the deck to go with this particular thankfulness... I'm also grateful when she sleeps.  Puppies need their sleep, as well as their food and their exercise!

Ember, in case you are missing the daily reports, is doing well.  Today we took the "long loop" in reverse order.  The one that looks like a gorilla's head.  I'm convinced that RunKeeper got the mileage wrong, saying we went 1.58 miles.  Tuesday morning it clocked the same route at 1.26 miles, in the other direction.  Looking at the difference in the maps, it looks as though we went down a different street on the way back today, but I know we did not!  

Toward the end of the walk, Ember took a sudden lunge at a squirrel.  I did not get pulled off my feet, and she did not get all the way to the squirrel, but it startled me as she has so far not done this.  Could be the beginning of a new phase.

On Thursday I had my pre-op visit with my regular doctor.  He was very happy with my weight "correction" since January, and when I enthused over the positive influence of Ember's residence at my house, he joked that he might have to start prescribing puppies!

Life is good.  Spark on!