I feel like we so rarely do a fun thing anymore. I ask Doug every weekend "do you want to so something today?" and a lot of times he says "you're looking at it." Then we do nothing, he takes a nap, I putter around the house and when he wakes up I am ready for a nap and he is ready for a walk. That is most every weekend.
Today I asked him the question, again. But this time he had a plan. "Let's go to a part of the state we've never been to." And he picked Fort Smallwood, up in Pasadena, MD. Indeed, we've never been!
You might laugh at a place being called Pasadena and it not being California. I know I did when I found out one of my co-workers lived there (and I thought that must be a hell of a daily commute) But it is south of Baltimore, over on the Patapsco River, North of Annapolis and where the Chesapeake Bay comes together. Maybe it isn't so bad?
There's another river there where everything is named after it - the Magothy, which our GPS pronounced "Maggoty" and that made it sound very unappealing. Maggoty Beach. ugh. No thanks?
But no, the area is fantastic. I bet in the summertime this place is absolutely packed, and this park must be too. Doug wanted to go to the Fort and walk the entire area but more than half of it is closed for renovations - including the part where the fort is. You can't even just park in one of the open areas and walk in. Completely closed off. Thanks, website, for letting us know this. We may have gone someplace else.
And we had to pay six bucks to get in. I actually was surprised Doug paid it, because he is usually super cheap. We bemoaned being charged to pay to go into a place we couldn't fully enjoy, but, we were not the only people there. Dozens of folks were enjoying the February day. Cold but no wind. We had a beautiful view from the pier and beaches to Baltimore. All the way to Baltimore beyond the Key Bridge.
We enjoyed a wonderful long walk, and Toffee was extremely interested in the water. It's brackish, so I dissuaded her from drinking it, but she splashed and played and was overjoyed. She wanted to jump off the boat launch, and I thought if it was just a little warmer and we had towels, well heck. I'd let her.
Phineas didn't enjoy swimming, and while Brodie sure did, we never really found a good good swimmy place for her but we didn't look too hard. She went several times in the Potomac River, off the C&O canal, when the water was not very swift and there were rocky outcroppings and places for her to wade and swim without getting swept to DC. We'll have to do some research.
After our visit to the park, we went to another park to see if we could get a good and closer view of the water but they wanted another $6 and Doug said if he knew the parks were all charging admission, he would have come here first. Where nothing was closed. We drove for a while to see if we could just follow a road to a beach and everything is a gated community. We discovered that when we moved here and went on a little trip to the water. In Maryland, there are literally no open, public right of way accesses to the water. None. Everything is privately owned or a park that you pay admission for. Dummies.
So we decided we'd go to a brewery, like ya do.
Hysteria Brewing has a taphouse in Pasadena, so we went there. We'd been to the location in Columbia, MD in the past, with Phineas. Dog friendly space, but no food. You can order from any of the restaurants in the plaza and that was our plan. Chill, have a beer, some wings, and Chill some more.
Toffee wasn't having it. There was another dog in the building and she wanted to go be with them, but we didn't want there to be a scene of any sort. So they were at one end of the taproom, we were at the other, and she was just acting a fool. Doug put her in the car so we could drink our beers, in peace. She sat in the front seat patiently. But we didn't want to stick around. We wanted to get home in the daylight.
See, on the way up there, our car started to overheat which was weird, what with it being February.
Doug stopped at a gas station on "Maggoty Beach Road," and we got the machine filled with fresh coolant (it was very low) and a couple thingies of oil (it was low). Things were looking good, much better! Until we headed home, and it started again. We pulled over to let it cool down and hit the road again - hoping that the overheating wouldn't turn into complete overboiling. I held my breath and prayed. Breaking down is one thing. Breaking down with 3 large adults and a Pibbie is no fun. We'd never get a ride with a tow truck driver to a garage. So that would suck. So bad.
We made it home safe with the alert turning on and off. We couldn't really figure out why it would do that unless the water pump is on its way out.
So now both cars have to go in. Fun.
The car temp is behaving right now but we are not risking anything. Doug ran to the market when we got home, I made dinner. We'll deal with things Monday morning.
But here's Toffee enjoying getting her feet wet for the first time in the Patapsco. Looking forward to what will come for her in the future. I love having a potential swimmy dog!
digits
exercise: 12/12 hours of 250 steps. Dedicated 30+, over a mile and a half total. Good walk today! 7700+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
9am: 174
5pm: 140
10pm: 167
food:
coffee, water
11am: metformin
12:30: 2 big celery sticks w/peanut butter
3pm: 1 beer at hysteria brewing
5:15pm: 2 left over Popeye's biscuits with butter
7:15pm: metformin+jardiance; 1 long piece of french bread pizza w/pepperoni (was only going to have half but I was super hungry!)
vodka tonics
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