Here are some pics from Memorial Day weekend. A trip out to San Diego included family time, a baseball game, some exploring, and some good food. Luna was boarded and she had a good time too. I didn’t get as many pics as I could have but here we go. Most of the pics of Luna are from the daycare. I think they’re just trying to sell the more expensive package next time, which includes pictures. They were really cool to see though.
Category: Luna
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today, i took luna to the dog park for the first time in a while. when we got there, there wasn’t many dogs there but after about 45 minutes some dogs finally showed up. a couple of them were poodles and the white one has a problem with jumping and an owner that seemed aloof about it. luna was standing near me and that white poodle walked over and jumped at me and i pushed it down and said “no”. a few minutes later the same scenario happened except i was not the one to give the “no” command. luna was. luna immediately growled and snarled and lunged at that white poodle. from that point on if dogs came next to me, luna was on duty. if you’re another dog standing next to me, beware of dog. there’s a couple of pics below. beyond that, luna is about 5 years old now and she’s begun tipping the scale. i changed her food not long ago and will be changing it again. they also want her to have large breed formula to help support her joints more. other than that, pretty healthy for a dog that’s had a heart murmur her whole life so far, and survived the cocktail of viruses. for the first time ever i was told she probably ate rocks before which is why her teeth are ground/broken. i guess that’s why she looked like she’d been fed when i adopted her!
Hike – 3/25/2023 – Hill Country State Natural Area
Luna and I headed out to Hill Country State Natural Area. It’s about 10 miles outside Bandera. If you hit HAAAYYY HOLLARRRR Rd you’re almost there! It’s a pretty large area. The lady said there’s 40 miles worth of trails and over the course of 4 hours Luna and I saw 11 of those miles. For the first time ever Luna didn’t want to play fetch when we got home. Thankfully I had just enough water for us both. It wasn’t really the route I expected to take out there on the trails. I’d been wanting to go out there and I saw they had Madrone trees which sounded pretty cool. I was able to find a few (barely) and definitely found some amazing views and if I hadn’t after climbing 58 floors I’d be sad.
Hike – 3/4/2023 – Mission Del Lago Trailhead
This morning Luna and I got out early and hit the trail around 7:45 am to avoid the heat. Not much going on here. We hiked from the Mission Del Lago Trailhead to the Pleasonton Trailhead and back. It was between a 7-8 mile hike and took us around 3 hours. Luna is usually in the gentle lead on walks now. She is persistent with needing to be in the lead but does pretty well with this on. This trail goes along Mitchell Lake, aka Lake Stinky, aka Stay Away From Mitchell Lake. We did get to see a horse’s ass though! The horses were funny. I wish I could have videoed it. When we walked back past them they were right on the fence line along the trail. Luna kept wanting to dart at them and would just end up pulled back to me. I guess one of the horses then thought it would be fun to tease Luna and persisted to walk along the fence line following us for about 100 yards, maybe a little more.
Hike – 2/4/2023 – Devil’s Den
After getting weather delayed last weekend we traveled over to the northwest side to check out Devil’s Den. Once believed to be a location for satanic rituals, fueled pretty hard by 2 bodies discovered in the 90s, we now know this spot used to be a quarry and the structure is just a remnant of that. This was a cool spot but I will say this. Recently there was an article naming San Antonio as one of the trashiest cities in the country. That is so evident at this park. There were a few really cool spots but each one of them had so much trash. Really unfortunate. Also, we saw so many deer here.
