Bravo BARKS

Bravo has a very piercing bark. And when he starts barking, the whole neighborhood begins the howling, too!

This is what he was raising a fuss about on THURSDAY, June 4 around 4:00PM. A mother deer along with two little ones walked through the back of our property. . . very near the dog fence! It seemed they had no fear at all as they paused to look at me while I snapped pics of them. We will have to put out another salt lick.

In the afternoon, we took the canoe out to Upper Twin Lakes. Paid $20 annual fee before we docked the boat, then posted the payment receipt in the window. There was even a Kootenai County Lakes & Recreation officer who watched us.

When we returned from our 1 hour trip around the lake, we found that a ticket had been placed on the truck. In talking with a couple other gentlemen, they indicated that this officer had also ticketed somebody in the same manner. Payment inserted in the box, and receipt prominently displayed on the dash as instructed. So we made a little note on the fine stating that we would not pay this fine, and that we had already submitted our annual fee. The officer should have looked in the box to verify that payments were received before issuing any tickets. Are some people just plain STUPID to see the obvious?

Other than that, it was a nice relaxing day on the lake; the ticket didn't really upset us that much; and Bravo had quite a fun swim (after sinking like a bowling ball to the bottom before he popped back up like a cork).

After a brief time at work on Friday morning, hubby took me to Sandpoint to enjoy the day. Very warm, but not hot. We stopped at Wally-World; they have almost gotten the whole thing redesigned. . . and then over to wash Isabelle's comforter at the local laundry shoppe. Afterwards we dropped my bike off at the bike doc-Michael. He will have a new shifting mechanism installed by next Friday. Might have to ride Kelsey's old bike that she left here until mine is finished.

We drove to Dover and docked the canoe on the Pend Oreille River. Very calm. Canoed for about an hour. Saw ducks; osprey; and a marmot. It is totally FREE to dock boats here.

Almost got killed on the way home as Greg narrowly missed rear-ending somebody because he was talking on the cell phone. I immediately secured his phone & forbade any more phone calls while I was riding with him!

Puppies were very glad to see us return home. No more riding in the truck for them as I got it totally cleaned out & detailed. I refuse to work that hard ever again - we are trying to find a topper for the truck.