Oakhurst Spring

[furtech]

Last week I was lucky enough to visit iisaw and Carol up at their place in Oakhurst. I can't describe how lucky I am to have friends like this. I really needed to get out of L.A. for a few days, so I went up to drop some flowers off to a relative in the area and continued on to meet Eric and Carol and spend the rest of the weekend hiking off some stress.



Here is the complete set of photos

The hiking was sorely needed: in addition to being great folks, Carol and Eric are also wonderful cooks. In order to burn off so many kcals, I hiked the area a LOT. I literally walked the dogs off their feet! Apache managed to collect several hundred twisty-burrs. R0ndo walked his feet off (literally). Tay and Tas both came back limping (different hikes). Every time we returned we discovered that one of the dogs broke.

I was pretty ragged, too. Thank goodness for Advil. The three of us 2-leggers also got some work done on projects that ranged from actual physical work (horrors!) to some creative word-smithing. All said, me and the dogs (even my poofy city collies) had a good time.

Comments

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

Are the twisty burrs organic? They almost look like metal.

Ha ha, muddy dog in tub...

[furtech.livejournal.com]

They're completely organic. You could take them and cast them in gold or silver and make earrings or something. I will admit that they are the most graceful and pretty of the nasty burrs that Apache collects. Relatively speaking, they're also the least annoying.

[roby-panther.livejournal.com]

Not that it helps the dogs any, but those burrs are really cool looking, almost artistic even.

As the person above mentioned, the look metallic. I've seen some bobby pins or clips that have that same kind of look.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Their shape also makes it easy to find them in the dogs' fur. My least-hated burr.

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

Muddy R0ndo in the sheep tank! LMfuzzyAO! Was great to have you and the dogs up.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for having us. We tried to make the most of the time, as evidenced by the number of broken dogs each day and the number of pictures showing wet and/or filthy dogs.

R0ndo amuses me, also!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

I love the dog in the mudbath pic!!