walk more

My apologies to Nike, but their slogan fits this goal to T. Living near Buffalo New York, walking is something we enjoy. The trouble is those world-famous winters we have here make it difficult to stay motivated to walk all year long. Enter all of this in our live last year ~ the new puppy that joined my family last year. Riley (a Lab) not only needs to be walked three times everyday, but WANTS to be outside to frollic and explorer with his nose ~ the world in ALL kinds of weather. Riley keeps me walking, healthy, happy, and gives me warm fuzzy peace of mind to boot.

I walk every day. That is my dog, a Labrador Retriever named Riley walks me. I call it walking it’s more like we “wander.” What we really do is roam the neighborhood and the adjacnt park and trail, while Riley sniffs everything in “sight.” We do this once or twice each day, rain or shine for 20 – 40 minutes at a stretch. It’s realy not as much excercise as it is a comnination of male bonding and a continuing struggle between a man and his beast.

What I really need is less bonding and more excercise.