A warm beautiful day here in the valley. When I got off work today at 10:30 a.m. I was thinking about how nice a trip to the river would be - it's been a few weeks. So I suggested this to the husband and we decided to load up the dogs and see if we could find us a swimming hole not to far from home. There are a vast amount of holes around here. Several different rivers and creeks to choose from. But on a day like today ... finding a vacant hole is almost impossible.

Now it seems that once you stake your claim at any given swimming hole outsiders are not welcome. There is generally not much room at these holes for a lot of folks anyways. So it took awhile to find a spot that was accessable and unoccupied. The spot we stumbled onto was perfect. A couple of good size pools with deep spots and easy access to the opposite and shaded side of the river. The dogs were in their glory. Lots of sticks to fetch, lizards to chase and water skippers to swim after. I had brought a few beers for myself and diet pepsi for the husband - he was the DD afterall. Of course shade is nice but sitting in the middle of the river in the sun with an ice cold beer is much more refreshing.

After about an hour and a half of R&R in the sun and four beers - yes, that is all it took - I was feeling a pretty good buzz. Normally I am not such a lightweight, but being up since 3:30 a.m. and very little food throughout the day made for some interesting hours to come. Soon some other folks showed up at the hole ... apparently tired of trying to find one for themselves. I don't have a problem sharing as long as there is no attitude to begin with and it turns out that these were some pretty nice folks. We ended up smoking a little bit of bud with them and visiting for a bit. We then loaded up the dogs and ventured home - fried in more ways than one. I do have a few stories of swimming hole invasions that turned pretty ugly but not really in the mood to share those right now. Too nice of a day yesterday. What I can remember of it!

The one thing I learned for sure out of all of this is trying to reply to blogs when highly intoxicated is not a bright thing to do. The fingers don't cooperate with the brain at all. The brain won't cooperate with the fingers at all. It's not a pretty sight. I had actually started this blog last night....and ended it this morning after many spelling corrections. Oh well..... gonna see what kind of trouble I can get into today. Too much to do and don't want to do it. Hope everyone has a good day.  J.