Walking with Lusi- trains, helicopters and aircraft.

We were greeted by Chickadees and the call of a Blue Jay, and a small flock of American Robins took flight and huddled in bunches on the nearby trees as we arrived. I had not seen so many birds for weeks and all this at noon. The temperature had swung back to a few degrees above freezing and small patches of grass were once again showing through.

Disappointed to find that the "low battery" signal came up on the camera when I tried to take a picture, (I think this camera will only take about six pictures before the battery runs out!): Mind you, I would probably only have caught a view of Lusi's spotted rear end, tail up, nose down, or maybe the blur of her careening at high speed through the thickets.

She is not a fearful dog. Now accustomed to the sounds of low flying small aircraft and helicopters from the nearby airfield she occasionally watches the sky for them. She is also used to the Toronto bound double decker "Go Train" and quite enjoys jumping on her hind legs for a better view when that passes us by. A few days ago she was puzzled though by the two strange vehicles on the tracks, one a truck and the other more like a large van, both of which were proceeding down the tracks on trolleys; these definitely attracted her attention and got quite a few scrutinizing jumps on her hind legs!


We came upon a gentleman walking; he was without a dog, so having no other point of distraction, Lusi greeted him by jumping up. We have to address her jumping up, I thought, make note to self!

Her new collar is, however, making it much easier to reach for her and to then manoeuvre her into a required position or even just to lead her along. I was surprised at how little resistance she offered to being handled by her collar relative to how she was acting recently with her last one. Quite clearly her previous resistance was because the "old" collar was now too tight.


I had an amusing time watching Lusi play her "apple game" with some frozen apples she had found. Tossing them into the air, she runs and chases after them as they roll away. She managed to keep this game going for several hundred metres before the apples finally disintegrated.