Diving Dog

Saturday started off with rain but turned into a nice day. Archie and Jessica came over and we took Homer to the Walnut Creek park for a walk. It was a bit muddy and the creek turned out to be running fairly high. At the main crossing the water was too high for us, although Homer splashed around in it - a bit cautiously - with some other dogs. We eventually found a crossing - Archie had to carry Jessica over since she didn't have the right shoes. We saw bluebonnets and other wild flowers and the trees are starting to fill in with leaves. The second creek crossing was a breeze.

When we got to the last creek crossing, the water there was running pretty high, too. We'd been there several times before, and Homer has crossed it before many times over the rocks that span it. Well, for some reason, yesterday he thought that there was solid ground under the opaque water surface a leisurely jumped off a rock into it. To his great surprise (and our greater amusement) he completely went under the surface, only to immediately pop up and, fairly calmly, swim across the creek and get out of the water. We were rolling on the ground laughing - the surprised expression on his face and the hair plastered to his head were just priceless.

He had the last laugh, though, because Jessica stumbled into the water after a log, which I had just praised as being "incredibly stable" went under the surface when she stepped on it. So she got one of her new shoes wet, despite all our efforts.

After we got home, we grilled some wurst and finally finished off the last of the créme brûlè.