Year in Review: April - June 2010

The second quarter of 2010 was busy with settling in the new house.  The good thing about the house is that it was remodeled, and everything seemed brand-new looking.  During my search for a house, we considered that we at least have to have a yard of some kind for Tico to run around in during the day.  This house sits on under 3K square feet lot, which leaves about a 2-car carport size lot in the back of the house for him to enjoy.  But lo and behold, our dog does not love to be outside.  He loves to hang around the black leather couch, and that's where he hangs out during the day while B and I heads for work.  Here's a picture of the first fruit from the cherry tomato we planted.  We also have a basil plant, and other herbs.  We also have a mini-lemon tree we use for our pastas and fish dishes.. 

CULVER CITY DOG PARK
Part of our roaming around LA area for a great dog park search, we discovered Culver City Dog Park aka The Boneyard; which is in Culver City, off of Jefferson Boulevard and Duquesne Avenue.  It is currently closed, but B definitely loves this park.  People are friendly here.  http://www.culvercitydogpark.org/main/007_Dog_Park_Site.cfm

On mother's day, B bought me flowers.  Here's the "son" trying to sniff the flowers to see if anything is edible at all.  It took him a while to figure out there's none.  He just liked the smell, apparently.

Here's a picture of him with our brand-new treadmill.  Dianne, a friend of mine, who does not have time to take her dogs out for their daily walks as well, said she does this a lot with her "kids".  There's a joke I read lately, and it said: "if your dog is fat, that means you don't get enough exercise".  So true.  We feel guilty, so we try to make up for it whenever we can.  Anyhoo, he was wondering what we were doing inside the office room, and we figured we'd try to get him in the machine.  He stayed on it for a few minutes, and that was the end of that. 

REDONDO BEACH DOG PARK

This is a photo of Tico (second GSD on the left) with other German Shepherd Dogs, in Redondo Beach Dog Park, http://www.rbdogpark.com/ which is just off of the 190th Avenue and Flagler Lane. Since we moved to LA, this is our favorite hangout, since it's only about a 20-minute drive from our house.  It can get crowded especially on Sunday mornings.  There used to be a bunch of old men who get together and poke fun of other people and their dogs, and I used to tell B "oh, the gossip girls are here again".  But I havnet' seen them for a while, which was good.  It can get really dirty after the rain because of the mulch and grass combo, but dogs don't mind.  We always just keep a blanket for him in either one of our cars.  They have pooper scoopers instead of plastic bags.  There's a lovely Victorian House\Museum called The Heritage Court right next door to it, too.  Your dog will not get lonely here, definitely.  And it's a fenced-in yard with separate fences for small and large dogs.  We liked to bring our ball sling, and Tico would just pick up the ball, and run off with it.  But there's lots of stray balls around, so you won't have a hard time finding one that you can sling, and Tico will then drop the ball out of his mouth, and chase after the second ball, and then the cycle continues.   

CONEJO CREEK DOG PARK, THOUSAND OAKS, CA

This is a photo to Tico and B at Conejo Creek Dog Park in Thousand Oaks.  We went to meet with Chris, a co-worker of Bryan's at his baseball game one Sunday, and we figured we'd make a day of it wiht Tico.  We were glad we did, we had some really good run on that dog park.  It's large, clean, and there's  hardly anyone there so you don't have to worry abou thet crowd.   http://www.yelp.com/biz/conejo-creek-dog-park-thousand-oaks

SAN PEDRO DOG PARK
Another place we go to is in San Pedro, which is just off of the Harbor exit of the 110 freeway.  It is secluded, and is hard to describe the directions to, since it's under the freeway itself.  Here's a website I found.  It's never crowded, we probably saw three other dogs there at max once, and that's it.  Right next to it is a K-9 training center, so they probably use that area as well for dog training.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/knoll-hill-dog-park-san-pedro