At the Park

We went back to the park today to see if the bike path had survived the high water.   A beautiful day for taking the dogs for a walk. 

Sure enough the bike path survived.  First the flood picture from last Wednesday….

Then the picture taken today.  You can see where the water has been but it went down and left the bike path intact.

The dogs really enjoyed the walk.  I sat on a park bench by the bank of the river and day dreamed about how this area must have looked to the first settlers, or hunters, or surveyors who came up this Great Miami River from the Ohio River.  They probably saw lots of wildlife along the bank, lots of big trees, maybe even some native Americans.  Certainly no park benches or….

yellow tape????  Yes, the bank is threatening to cave in, that tree is leaning badly and will soon fall into the river.  Somehow the yellow tape ruined my musings. 

If you drive on secondary roads around here you often come to a 90 degree turn followed shortly by another 90 degree turn, turns so sharp you feel you should use your turn signals.  I have read that this happened when the original surveyors stopped their work in a hurry and didn’t get back to the exact spot to continue their work. 

This was due to being interrupted by bears or Indians etc.  Now those turns are surrounded by corn fields, pastures, or maybe soybean fields.   There must have been a lot of trees here then.

Our trip to the park was so nice I decided to continue on to the pet food store.  The dogs are allowed to go in there and they really enjoy all the smells. 

As we pulled into the parking lot I noticed a very disagreeable smell in the car.  A glance into the back seat explained the odor.  Poor Teddy had been car sick.  Of course, Silly stood up and stepped in it, drug her leash through it, tracked it around. 

We pulled out of the parking lot and went home, no pet food store today.  The car got a good scrubbing and the windows are down for the moment.  I’ll have to watch the weather as it is supposed to rain later today.   I thought Teddy was over the car sickness but apparently not.  He loves to get in the car and he hasn’t been sick in the RV since the second day I had him.   I’ll have to give him medicine the next time we go for a ride.

All in all a pretty good day.

Later….