Travels with Charlie: Make a Local Holiday Wreath

By Gordon Snyder

After nearly a week of confinement and pain meds, Charlie was ready to get outside for a walk. We headed to Animal Acres Park’s easy paths for lots of sniffing for him to get caught up in his world. Yeah!!! Much better than traveling to the Vet.

After some exploring, he discovered the blown down branches from our recent wind storm. All along the westside path, there are lots and lots of small branches blown from the trees.

Charlie sniffing some future Local Holiday Wreaths
Photo by Gordon Snyder

All those branches got me to thinking … If someone wanted to make a local holiday wreath, Thank Charlie and head to Animal Acres Park to pick up some branches and boughs. Fresh and great smelling, they can make some Holiday Joys. They will be laying there until the park crew cleans them up.

As for Charlie’s last week health issue, we don’t know much more. After 3 days of pain meds and lots of sleeping, then the last couple days he started becoming his old food driven, let's go do something, flirtatious self. What a relief!

Now that he is tapering off the meds, none of us have a clue what happened. Chris could never get any kinda pain response when she examined him. My guess is he slipped while running and goofing off and pulled / sprained something. We'll see when he's totally off the pain meds.

 
And, of course, he hasn't given us any other clues, other than he's happily sniffing again.

It’s all good for now… Cheers,

Gordon Snyder