A beautiful day showed up this morning. We had french toast, sausage and melon in the garden. It had rained lightly early in the morning before we woke and cleaned off the leaves and flowers making them sparkle in the morning light. The sun started to poke through grey clouds warming the patio where we sat. Others at the motel stirred and emerged from their rooms with smiles and shorts on.
After breakfast the three of us walked along the beach for miles toward Morro Rock. The behemoth stood near the estuary that cradled fishing boats and wildlife. Circling the top of the rock was a misty cloud making the huge rock look like a magical island in the distance. Our stroll along the water's edge was pleasant and fun. Families came out to enjoy the beach and young men dashed with surfboards into the sea giddy as girls.
David couldn't keep his eyes from them. He has x-ray eyes that bore under the surf trunks and strip each surfer bare for the world to see. Once, overtaken by the beauty of a particular hot guy, he walked right into him as he stared like a deer caught in headlights. The guy confused why this old sod was intent on walking over him.
I threatened to leash David if he didn't behave. I've threatened that before when he ran the car into the sidewalk once staring into the headlights of hot guy walking on the sidewalk. David had to sign a pledge with his car insurance agent that he would not drive on Santa Monica Blvd again. Now we have to take turns taking David to the blvd. as long as he kept the window up. If it is not up, David will lean out the window like a golden retriever until he is at the pinnacle of falling out of the car.
Right now he went for a walk on his own to the pier after I told him about the surfers jumping off the pier into the water. I should have kept my mouth shut, David could jump over with them and then, after being rescued by the surfer and brought to shore only to have the surfer rescued by someone with a crowbar to break David free.
Ah, a day at the beach. Nothing like it.
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