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Two parks with Bailey

June 13, 2013 Maurice 6 Comments

Bailey has been adapting to her new home quite well. She’s an early riser, though, that’s for sure! She has gotten me up at six, which is about an hour before I’m really ready to get up. I was thinking she needed to go out, but nope, she just wants to get her day started!

We’ve taken her to a couple of parks and she’s loved it. Hawthorne Park was one of Max’s favorite parks. It has a great big duck pond, and Bailey loved it, too. She wanted to hop down into the pond, but it’s fenced so she tried to sneak under it!

There is also a water park there, and we started up a bunch of the various fountains for her, and she lapped up the water. Pretty funny.

Today (Thursday) I took her for a run through Sunnyside Urban Forest. It’s a great park, with lots of trails through the forest. She is not great at socializing yet – she apparently had a very sheltered first year, and hasn’t had an opportunity to meet a lot of dogs. Well, that’s going to change with us, since we’re always in one park or another.

Today she met a couple big dogs, a Golden/Mastiff cross and something that looked like a short haired Samoyed, both female. She apparently has real issues with female dogs, but both meetings came off very well. I was very pleased with how that went, and not a little surprised too!

We’ve been continuing her daily training, and we’re teaching her a new trick – she is sitting in front of us, and we pretend to get her to come between our legs, but she darts around behind us, and comes through our legs from the rear! It’s darn cute. Hopefully we’ll get it perfected so we can take a movie of it.

Anyway – all is good. Well – not all – she does have a habit of drinking with her mouth quite deep in the water dish, and then dripping all over the place! It’s kinda funny, until you see she has dripped in huge puddles all over the kitchen and stairs leading to the family room! haha

All About Max

Hawthorne Park

May 1, 2013 Maurice Leave a comment

I don’t want to be maudlin here, but I’ve really missed Max. I’ve been poking around the blog lately, and realized we visited an awful lot of parks around Surrey. So over the last few days, I’ve been going for long walks in the parks that Max and I spent so much time in. On Sunday, Pam and I checked out Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest, a relatively flat park where we used to jog a lot.

Yesterday, while Pam worked, I visited Tynehead fish hatchery, a park that has lots of squirrels. They are bold little guys, crisscrossing the paths. I kinda chuckled, thinking Max would of been chasing them into the trees in a hurry!

And today I went for a walk around Hawthorne park, in North Surrey. Max used to really love this park. It has big ponds full of ducks, and he’d give them a good chase! He’d go charging down to the water, and slam on the brakes just before the water, trying not to get his feet wet. Funny guy…

Well today I saw a duck I’ve never seen before! It’s apparently called a Muscovy duck, and it’s a strange looking bird. It’s not native to Canada, so I have no idea how or why it’s here. I’ve put in a short movie here, so you can see how it moves – almost like a turkey, really, it’s head bobbling back and forth.

Hope you all are well and enjoying spring in your neck of the woods.

All About Max, Surrey Parks

Hawthorne Park

October 10, 2010 Maurice Leave a comment

We went for a short walk around Hawthorne Park. Pam’s recovering nicely, and she’s eager to get back out into the sunshine. We had an incredible rain storm here on Saturday, but today (Sunday) was very nice, sunny and warm.

Max gets a kick out of Hawthorne Park because it has a large duck pond, and he always gets crazy, trying to chase them. After his dunking in Green Timbers, we were wondering if he was going to dive in after the ducks at this park. He chased them, but he didn’t enter the water! Guess he learned his lesson!

They are doing a lot of work on Hawthorne Park. There are a lot of paths blocked off by fencing, and they seem to be adding crushed rock to the paths. It will be really nice when they are done, because some of the paths are quite muddy in the winter rainy season.

They have put in a “dry” river bed, with these large metal sculptures, in various colors, of cattails. I’m not sure if they intend to bring water to the river bed, but it’s looking good so far.

All About Max, Surrey Parks

Hawthorne Park, North Surrey

March 20, 2010 Maurice 3 Comments

Another beautiful day in Surrey, another chance to visit a new park. Today we decided to visit Hawthorne Park, in North Surrey. The area is currently undergoing a lot of development, with lovely single family homes going in. The area has a magnificent view towards the mountains, which were gleaming under the midday sun. Mt. Baker was clearly visible to the south.

We had a little problem finding an entrance to the park, as we approached it from the west. There were walking entrances, to be sure, but clearly not the main entrance. As we circled the park we found a small parking lot on the east side, across the street from a local school.

We entered the park and had 3 or 4 large gravel pathways to choose from. We headed south, along side a little brook. There were lots of deciduous trees, so the park seemed a little bare right now. Clearly, it will be marvelous in the summer months. As we strolled along we came across a large pond, covered in ducks! There was a long tree that had fallen into the pond. Sitting on the tree trunk, in the middle of the pond was a cat! Too funny!

We walked around the very large pond and discovered the main entrance. There was a large children’s play area, with a water park to one side. There was a mini climbing wall, swings, sit and spins – just lots of things for kids to do. There are a couple of covered picnic tables, and lots of open playing fields.

Nearby were some formal gardens. Pathways crisscross through beds of daffodils, heather, hyacinth, grape hyacinth and rhododendrons. There are lots of blooming cherry and apple trees, exploding with pale pink flowers. Very pretty walk.

We crossed a little bridge and Max got his fill of duck chasing again! There were lots of ducks on this pond, and Max actually got his feet wet in this pond! That’s a first! He does love to chase along the water’s edge; I’m not sure what he’d do if one of the ducks refused to leave!

We spent over an hour wandering the pathways that intersect this park. I’m not sure of the size of this park, but it is quite large. We mentioned several times that it will be a good place to jog, since most of the paths are quite flat, wide and well drained.

As we returned to the car, we explored the north side of the park, and found a grove of large redwood trees, and another large brook. It was another great afternoon in the Surrey Parks System! We’ll certainly be coming back to this park for further exploration on another day.