We had a very nice walk, in the time I was away. Der Brucer and I took Marty, Mikey, Bonnie and Buster for a walk along a different part of the state park trail, from around the outlet malls to a stretch between a new bunch of condos and the local shantytown. (It was easy to tell which was on which side of the trail, because on the shantytown side of the trail was a chain link fence, and on the condo side of the trail was a ten-foot high cinderblock wall. So neighborly, don't you think?)
We decided, at the end of the trail, to cut around to the highway, which was much shorter. Good think, since Marty and Mikey were beginning to get tuckered out. We stopped at a car wash, where der B got a bottle of iced tea and a cup. They all had a good slurp of iced tea, and were ready to head back to the car. (Yup, the dogs all like iced tea. They also like ginger ale and root beer. Go figure.)
Home again, and I've got dinner to fix soon. Chicken breasts, marinated in Dijon. I think some lightly sauteed baby spinach on the side, and hows about some hush puppies! I haven't made hush puppies before, but der Brucer found me a recipe. The only thing I'm going to have to do differently is use regular milk instead of buttermilk. Say la vie.