Almost Summer, Feels Like Fall

Almost Summer, Feels Like Fall
Jun 20th 2008
wolfmoonsleddog
Southeast
Location: Northwest GA
Time - 12:04pm
Temperature: 80 degrees F
Conditions: Partly cloudy, cool-ish
Forecast: Partly cloudy today, thunderstorms tomorrow. Lows in the 60s, highs in the 80s

Well, after a nasty late spring heat wave, we’ve had a few VERY nice days. We had rain about a week ago and it filled up the creek again (although it is beginning to run dry again by now) and it heralded cooler temperatures. Think 50s. Nice training weather.

It was 53 degrees yesterday morning, which made for a brisk scooter run. Calypso is loving this weather as much as I am. Yesterday it was cool enough to see our breath, a welcome change. It feels like Fall although I know we’ve got Summer ahead of us (it starts today or tomorrow, I can’t remember which).

We’ve been running the same short trail every morning and I’m frankly surprised Calypso isn’t bored with it yet - and it’s a straight trail too! We saw a squirrel this morning which made for an interesting run. Also, last week a coyote left some scat in the middle of the road and now Calypso wants to stop and sniff it EVERY SINGLE MORNING! I’ve been yelling on-by quite a lot and managed to get the line wrapped around the front wheel once or twice.

I think the coyotes are denning near here. I hear them howling at least two or three times a week. I’ve been sleeping with my window open and I hear them a lot at night, singing and howling. I think they must have a den because some of them CANNOT carry a “tune” like the adults do. It sounds like a bunch of kids singing off-pitch. I have an idea as to the general area of the den but I haven’t investigated further as I don’t want to disturb them. I enjoy hearing them sing at night and seeing their tracks in the mud and sand.

Calypso has lost a LOT of her Winter coat and looks much better (the ground has a fuzzy appearance now but that’s another story). I’m sure she feels better too.

As I’ve been hinting for the past month or so, I have BIG NEWS. I’ll be announcing it here on Wednesday though it’s not really a secret and a lot of you probably already know. But it’ll still be fun to write about!