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The dogs and I went for walk today with them on leash and me really walking fast enough to be breathless. Probably only about 3 km return trip, but that's 2.9 km further than I could go three months ago. Go me!! We went down to the West Song waterway for the first time in so long I can't remember - my hip had been so bad that it was painful walking much distance and I was foregoing leash walks for places where the dogs could run and I could throw a ball for Robinson. It was grey and cloudy this morning, but the sun came out this afternoon and it was beautiful and we saw a seal and Canada geese and other dogs and it was lovely.

I'll do my Thanksgiving post tomorrow, but I already know that one thing I'm thankful for is my new hip.

I slept until quite late (for me), that is, until the dogs started shuffling their feet and coughing to remind me that other bladders than mine required emptying... Then I had the Sunday paper in bed with a La Collina cinnamon bagel and some juice, then I took the dogs for a walk at Beaver Lake. I still can't go very far, but there was a hawk circling and the air smelt nice and woodsy and the boys enjoyed it, so a good time was had by all. Then I did a load of laundry and washed the bird feeders in bleach and filled in my drug claims so that I'll get some money back from the insurance company. Then I met kp downtown for lunch/brunch and had a nice eggs bennie (which reminds me: who was benedict, and what is a maven as in pop-culture maven? these questions came up at lunch and enquiring minds want to know). Afterwards we went to M.E.C and kp bought a couple of tops but I didn't, but I then went to Eddie Bauer and spent far too much money on three - no four - tops and a pair of very stylish cords which need turning up at the bottom but are otherwise a perfect fit despite being size 8 (!!!!). Then I came home and let the dogs run around in the garden while I dead-headed the cosmos, and now I'm here doing this. So there.