What a great day! Chief and I went out to Waterfall Glen. He took Dusty and went running with some of his faster friends and JJ and I headed out for 3 miles and doubled back. JJ was a pain in the butt for the first mile. He gets so excited when we start. He has to pull and cut behind me because he is too nosey and needs to meet everyone. He wants to see who is behind us and wants to catch up with whoever is in front of us. Eventually he settled in and by the time we got to the 3 mile mark we seemed to run like a fine oiled machine. That is until he saw the deer! JJ ears perked up and off he went to get a better look at it. The problems with this is that I was being pulled so hard while running down a hill. The only way to stop him was to literally stop. I was glad when the deer jumped back into the woods. JJ of course wanted to follow but with me giving him strong "no's" he figured it would be best to listen to me. Now because of his extra work his tongue was hanging out the side of his mouth. Thanks to TNT (team in training) I got him a drink of water. The last 3 miles went fast. In fact we finished in 64 minutes which is good for us. We then walked about a half mile or so and met up with Chief and friends. I was glad to give JJ's leash to Chief that way I could run a little bit quicker. I had a great workout today.
After showering we picked up a buddy of Chief's and drove to Aurora to the "Wurst Kitchen". This is some sausage place that Chief really likes. They have all kinds of flavored brats which being from Wisconsin you know he was like a kid in a candy store. We bought tequila and lime brats, regular brats, atomic sausage sticks, southwest chicken brats, and a big pickle for me. We then finished the morning by shopping for new rugs for the house. Linens and Things is going out of business so we got some runners and throw rugs at reasonable prices. I can't wait to scrub the floors and put them down. It should look really nice.
We went to Cooper's Hawk in Burr Ridge for lunch. It is a restaurant and wine bar. It was very good. Chief was on call so we didn't have any wine or beer. I am sure next time we will be taste testing. We ended our afternoon getting a new toaster. I hope this one will be the "best toaster ever". I have toaster issues.
Chief got called into work so it's time for me to work on the floors, walk the boys, make out a grocery list, possibly go to Trader Joe's, and maybe have a glass of wine. I had a really good day.
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I'm glad your running is going well again. Best of luck with the knee surgery, too.
You do have me wondering about "toaster issues" though. Please elaborate. When I got married, we got 3 toasters. I kept the pick of the litter and I still have it after 15 years.
-Karen
Toasters...where to begin. The dumb things either pop up to fast or they burn my bread. To make it worse when it does pop up and I try to put the thing down it makes an awful noise and fights me. Long story short: I came home from work on Monday night and the toaster was on the deck with 2 slices of bread in it. Chief finally gave in and the next day the darn thing went in the garbage. Wish us luck with the new one.
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