Hair Explosion

This morning on my trek from computer to coffee maker, I noticed wisps of white stuff all over the carpet. I thought Taz had torn the stuffing out of one of his toys again, so I picked most of it up and threw it in the waste basket.

On the next coffee run I found even more. Could Taz be losing his winter coat? Sure enough, when Carol brushed him it looked like a pack of Saint Barnards had been shaved in the living room, but instead of looking any smaller, he was fluffed up even more. I'm afraid to think of how much more hair and fur is getting ready to come out!

We've had a cold winter this year and he evidently was well prepared for it. Now the forecast is for warm weather and I guess we'd better be ready for a slow motion hair explosion.

Sunny Day!

What's that bright light? Up there in the sky! Ow! it hurts my eyes!

The sun actually came out this morning, so JC, Taz and I went for a long overdue beach walk.

As usual, Ona beach has changed completely from the last time we were there, the high surf has uncovered some prehistoric tree stumps along with an ancient peat bog. They've been preserved by being buried in the sand and are thousands of years old, the result of a massive earthquake and tsunami, which dropped an entire forest into the surf and then covered it over.

The sand at the north end of the beach was all gone exposing the bedrock and several agate beds. I forgot my camera but JC took some nice pictures of Taz and I. Taz seemed to enjoy getting out as much as we did, I'm sure he gets cabin fever too.

Carol and I went over to JC's this afternoon to get copies of the pics he took and have a few glasses of wine. It's already clouding over for the next storm system to come through, but it sure was a great morning!