Summer is Officially Over.

This morning on my first walk with Izzy, and her 2nd walk, it was a whopping 37 degrees.

I know this because -

1. I was freezing. 

2. Doug Hill on ABC 7 told me so as I walked into my house.  

This afternoon Izzy and I took another walk and it was really nice out.

I put on my fleece jacket as I left the house but I only got about half a block away and I had to take it off. 

I needed to get out of the office or I was going to scream at customers. Better to walk away than to be unprofessional. I figured the sunshine and a walk with Iz would do me good.

It in fact did. 

I so wish we would get color here in fall. They turn brown they fall and the trees are bare.

We get some yellowish type color but nothing like the northeast and where I'm from. 

I so miss the colors of fall. 

Each time I see one leaf I take a picture.

Pathetic isn't it?

But here was that lone colored leaf among the brown dead ones on the ground.

I sat on a log and watched Izzy chew a stick. 

Yes, my day with customers today was so bad that this was thrilling to me!

Doesn't her coat look better? This new food as well as an Omega 3 pill daily has brought her coat back to the way it used to be before this damn Lyme Disease. She is shiny and soft all over again. We are trying to give her a good quality of life with this dreaded disease but some days it breaks my heart to see her limp or just not be able to do what she wants. 

She is not even 5 years old yet.  

As we were getting up to leave two strapping young men (with really nice arms) were leaving their fishing hole.

They stopped to pet Izzy and chat. 
The one with the nice arms had caught a pretty nice size bass and I said something to him about it. He said, "You know a bass from a trout?"  
I laughed and said, "Sadly I do know my fish."
So then they were testing me, it was funny.
I told them I have a husband who is a big time fisherman so you kind of learn over the years a northern pike from a small mouth bass, a striper from a walleye etc. 
Apparently that was pretty funny to them. I told them I was happy to amuse them. 
They loved Miss Izzy and as they were walking out she wanted to follow them. 
The little ho loves her men!

I didn't want them to see me taking their pictures so I stayed back. 
I don't have a large zoom so it is what it is. 
I just felt like this picture needed the Andy Griffith show theme song.  
You know the one, the whistling with Pa and Opie off to the fishing hole.