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This morning, local friends invited Miriam and me to join them at the dog park with their dog Brooks. (We have local friends! For the first time in years! This is so wonderful and slightly anxiety-making at the same time.)
Brooks is the dog that Ella met once earlier and got along with well, even though she doesn't really know how to play. I hoped having a dog she already knew to focus on would help her to be less crazy. (She totally loses it when she sees other dogs walking around the lake.) I was anxious that she'd be too ill-behaved and I'd have to turn right around and take her home.
But she did really well! She has some problems. She is easily excitable, and sometimes gets too jumpy and pushy with other dogs. But a lot of the time, she interacted with them relatively appropriately. And she got to run around like she's probably never run around before, exploring and playing chase with other dogs. She's been fairly low-activity the rest of the day too: I've never managed to tire her out before.
So I'm just thrilled about how well she managed being there, and how much I enjoyed walking around the park, chatting with friends, and watching Ella be about as happy as a dog can be.
We're planning to meet up again to walk around the park tomorrow. Maybe I can get some pictures. And I'm considering going there on my own during weekdays too instead of walking around the lake.
I also built the little function generator kit I got for $7 delivered, and which showed up almost two weeks earlier than it supposedly would. No complaints. After I realized I'd missed putting in one resistor that had rolled under the printer, it produced a decent sine wave. Nice! It's one of these, an XR2206: https://www.electroschematics.com/function-generator/
Brooks is the dog that Ella met once earlier and got along with well, even though she doesn't really know how to play. I hoped having a dog she already knew to focus on would help her to be less crazy. (She totally loses it when she sees other dogs walking around the lake.) I was anxious that she'd be too ill-behaved and I'd have to turn right around and take her home.
But she did really well! She has some problems. She is easily excitable, and sometimes gets too jumpy and pushy with other dogs. But a lot of the time, she interacted with them relatively appropriately. And she got to run around like she's probably never run around before, exploring and playing chase with other dogs. She's been fairly low-activity the rest of the day too: I've never managed to tire her out before.
So I'm just thrilled about how well she managed being there, and how much I enjoyed walking around the park, chatting with friends, and watching Ella be about as happy as a dog can be.
We're planning to meet up again to walk around the park tomorrow. Maybe I can get some pictures. And I'm considering going there on my own during weekdays too instead of walking around the lake.
I also built the little function generator kit I got for $7 delivered, and which showed up almost two weeks earlier than it supposedly would. No complaints. After I realized I'd missed putting in one resistor that had rolled under the printer, it produced a decent sine wave. Nice! It's one of these, an XR2206: https://www.electroschematics.com/function-generator/
