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LIGHT SHIFT

Along with the cooler temperatures, comes the darkness.

Shorter days.

They are related, the cool and the dark, but they present different challenges.

The cool means socks.

The dark requires that I shift Franklin's walks from after dinner to before.

This is a bit tricky as Franklin, being a desert dog, does not do sunny walks. We have to wait for our sun to set at about 430PM; just an hour before the final throes of dinner prep; a close call.

Franklin is ready to go almost any time. We had a good walk, we got back in time.

The problem came after supper. Franklin came to me to get his post dinner walk. Head butt. Paw in lap. Moan and groan (he doesn't actually whine).

I explain.

He doesn't get it.

I ask if he doesn't remember the rabbits, the other dog we met, the various trees that he watered.

No.

Finally I divert. We go outside to play 'soccer'. That works, sorta.

It will take a few days to make the change stick.

In the meantime, I get double duty; walking before dinner and soccer after.

You don't think I am getting jerked around do you?