It's not Carmel, but it's still the beach

Here's Tomokee at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It's not as pretty the beach in Carmel-by-the-sea, and it's way colder and more windy, and it doesn't have as many dogs, and they have to be on-leash, but it's still a beach. Tomokee is enjoying the ocean air.

Cone of shame, revisited

Tomokee recently managed to scrape his right foreleg at the inner "elbow", and we made him wear the "cone of shame" so that he would not lick his wound to death. On a prior occasion, we tried a couple of plastic collars, but they weren't that comfy for T-dog. Ultimately, we bought this Comfy Cone, which has been great. He can do all of his normal activities, including sleeping, in comfort. As you can see, it does not stop him from playing ball, ball, ball...

City dog

Last weekend, we hung around San Francisco, and the trip included a walk through Golden Gate Park. Here are a couple of pics of Tomokee enjoying the view at Stow Lake.
While there, we spotted a pair of muscovy ducks. They're sort of ugly and cute at the same time.

Adoptiversary

Last week was Tomokee's 4th year adoptiversary. Sometimes it feels like time has flown by and he hasn't been with us very long, and other times it feels like he's been here forever.

Windy Hill Hiking

We took Tomokee along on a hike last weekend to Windy Hill, one of the few parks in the mid-peninsula bay area that allows dogs. Tomokee had a grand old time, as usual. We hiked from the bottom entrance to this spot at the top entrance, where we enjoyed a spot of lunch.

Scenery

On our visit to Carmel-by-the-Sea and its environs last weekend, we made a trip to Garrapata State Beach. This is one of the loveliest beaches on the central coast and very popular with photographers. Tomokee is standing on the trail that overlooks the beach.

Open,open,open

We went on one of our getaways to Carmel-by-the-Sea this last weekend, and of course Tomokee goes along because Carmel, if nothing else, is a dog lover's kinda' town. We were taking a pre-dinner stroll one evening and suddenly T-dog pulls ahead and goes faster, and turns a corner even faster, and then pulls us down these steps and plunks himself down in front of his favorite retail establishment, Diggidy Dog. Alas, the shop had just closed for the day. But, there's no need to feel sorry for him, because we did return the next day and again the day after that and we bought plenty of treats for him as well as a new toy.