On a glorious Monday morning, I decided to take Buddha and Dakota for a long walk. After an utterly fantastic weekend of sunshine and mild temperatures this past weekend, we are due for increased heat an humidity tomorrow, so If I was going to push the dogs a bit on a walk, today is the day to do it.
Ian and Andrea asked me if I wanted to take my grandson Duncan a long too. They have baby front back, a less costly version of the “Baby Bjorn”, that I was able to put the Duncaroo into which would allow my hands to be free.
There is nothing quite like a chunky prop/ex-wrestler/weightlifter carrying a small baby in a front pack with a couple of dogs in tow to make people slow down and stare while driving past us. Most people have a smile when they see babies anyway. I am not sure if they were smiling at Duncan, or about ready to laugh at what a sight we must have made.
Once we got into a good walking cadence, it really was a nice walk. Duncan’s 8+ pounds are the least of my concerns, it’s trying to control two very different dogs while walking. Buddha has a straight-ahead-damn-the-torpedos kind of a gait, and my sister’s dog Dakota has the Attention-Deficit Disorder thing going where her attention is drawn to almost anything during the walk. And of course, BOTH dogs really want to meet other dogs who are also out on their walk. All this means that a walk with them is more of an upper body/core workout than one would usually predict on a 3 mile/5km walk. Ducan was nice an calm during the walk.
All in all, a good time was had by all. Now I have to run and take care of some errands and get down to my 91 year old grandmother’s house to mow her yard and then hit the gym.
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