MaggieMoose: October Pumpkins & Treadmills

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"O' pumpkin pie, your time has come 'round again and I am autumnrifically happy!"

Terri Guillemets

Maggie readies herself for pumpkin pie season. 
Daily work outs on the treadmill...

 Dedicated to Scotty, my 9 lb Maltese dog who loved running on the treadmill with me. 

Awww, miss you boy. #OTRB

Out & About With The Family

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

George Santayana

Maggie's human sibling Julie

  Yesterday after Maggie's big adventure described in Fog On The Pumpkin Patch we were just chilling on the home front. Then the sun came out. Maggie's human sibling Julie asked if I wanted to "Walk the Stanford Dish?" Maggie gave me the OK, go ahead look in between running her paws in a deep sleep. Only humans can walk the dish. Dogs use to be allowed before Stanford University put in stronger conservation plans. I felt like the last local resident to walk the dish-until yesterday. It was high noon. We set the Map My Run app on the iPhone for a "walk". The first leg up is a killer. It was the first of many killers. Beautiful views and nature everywhere. Squirrels were chilling and scurrying about. It's a squirrels haven up there. Squirrel metropolis?

Red tailed hawks were flying overhead when we came to the "Dish" (which is a radio telescope).

The best part was when a jackrabbit crossed the road.

At the end of our 5 mile hike we were hot, sweaty, and hungry. We went to Sono Sushi to get refreshed. We sat at the sushi bar. Magic. Boats of beautiful sushi floated by. We selected delicious plates of heaven.

Energized we left the Sono Sushi  for some gelato. 

Then it was time to scamper home to walk Maggie for her afternoon walk. Afterwards Maggie and I piled into the Subbie car to drop Julie off elsewhere. It was a happy day spent with family out and about in between pumpkins, nature walks, sushi and home sweet home again. A full, family masterpiece of fun. 

Happy Maggie. Home sweet home.

CLICK THE YOUTUBE "Walkifornia-Stanford Dish"

P.S. GO STANFORD-Ignore the "GO BEARS" written on the trail. 

Autumn Skies Ahead

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year's end and day's beginnings."

Terri Guillemets

1st autumn sky morning

  Today is the first day of autumn. Maggie and I could feel it in our bones as we briskly walked in the 45F degree weather. Cool and crisp with the sunshine over the easterly horizon. It was as if the sky decided to show its leaf like autumn colors for the world. We enjoyed it as we pawsed to take in its colorful beauty. Many different shaped leaves were scattered all around the ground with colors of reds, browns, yellows and tans. In our little neighborhood we feel and see the Fall season each year. Our trees turn many multiple colors. The leaves pile up in our yard and everywhere we walk. Maggie loves running fast through the yard like a torpedo. Behind her the leaves are scattered in a flurry like a whirling dervish. This changing season reminds Maggie and I of snuggle up time as the nights get shorter, loads of pumpkins around and more Stanford football games. GO STANFORD! We're looking forward to burrowing in and experiencing the thrill of the outdoors full of cool, windy days chasing the leaves along our path. It's the year's end and the day's beginnings.

Maggie on the 1st morning of Autumn