Devo and Enzo

Sunday July 2nd – The weather here is quite warm at our house and down right hot (95 Fahrenheit 35 Celsius) in the valley where we had to go today. We drove out to my friend Cathy’s house today to pick up my “puppies”, Devo and Enzo. Even though they are both 5 years old they are always referred to as “the puppies”. They had been staying at home with Grant until he came over to Australia. At that time they went to stay at “Camp Cathy”. My friend Cathy runs a grooming shop and small boarding kennel on 160 acres. They LOVE going there as they get to take longs treks around the property and play with all Cathy’s dogs. We had another rapturous reunion and I had two more dogs glued to my side. After visiting for awhile we hooked up with a friend of my mom’s who took her out to Sacramento for the holiday weekend. Just a reminder for those of you non US citizens, July 4th is our Independence Day and a national holiday. Grant and I returned home where it was thankfully much cooler (75 degrees, 24 Celsius) as we live closed to the Bay and get a cooling ocean breeze.
That evening we were hanging out watching TV (with several hundred channels to choose from) when I suddenly realized with a start that it was 7:30pm and we hadn’t even fed the dogs dinner yet. The thing that threw me was it was still broad daylight! I had been used to it getting dark by 5:30 pm in Melbourne, it being winter there, and I hadn’t made the adjustment to summer daylight here.