Tired puppy!

This morning we bounced out of bed bright and early, well it was around 11 for me, and headed out for a dog-walking expedition. It is hard to get Moose any leash time near our house because our neighborhood is small, Sitz Road is busy with cars and no shoulder, and he is too chicken to cross the highway overpass to take us into town.

So into the car in search of dog walking Nirvana. Or at least nothing with disco. And in the winter that means, ta-daaaaaa.....a Michigan State Park. What better place to take a dog who needs time on a leash than to a place where there is a lot of space and few people. So off to Sleepy Hollow State Park we went.

It was a great time. We saw maybe twenty people the entire time we were there. In the summer it would have been a couple thousand, as Sleepy Hollow is a well-used State Park being that close to Lansing. Instead of the drone of motorhome generators, screaming brats and Lynard Skynard, it was just the sound of wind, a few birds and a guy flying his remote control airplane. A rather cool World War II fighter replica (it looked like a Corsair, but I may be wrong), and he really knew how to fly it. Barrel rolls, stalls, dives, and he didn't crash it once. That is far beyond my capabilities with remote-control model aircraft.

But we did end up with a tired puppy, which was the point of it all. We walked 2.43 miles according to the GPS, and he was good on the leash 99% of the time. And wanted help getting in the car at the end of the walk. And plopped right down in the seat to rest.

This may be a regular trip, at least until the weather warms and "Free Bird" fills the air.