Yes, the sun is out after 3 days of storms.
Itzl is pleased.
It was dark when we got to work this morning (it always is, we arrive at work at o'dark thirty every working day...), so I don't usually take early morning pictures.
And technically, we aren't getting lunch today, but I put up the "Away from desk" sign and took him out for a walk out front so we could see if anyone was coming in. With most people at work on their furlough day today, I was the only person in my entire building, and Itzl the only dog (usually there are 2 dogs in the building).
So we went out front and Itzl got to check out the front gardens.
He loves flowers and he particularly likes his bright pansies:
There were some surprise garlic scapes in the garden - nobody planted them there, they just appeared. Itzl was surprised:
Since these gardens are closer to the street, Itzl was faster to alert to loud cars driving by, and since we are across the street from the teaching/state hospital, he will alert on sirens. He doesn't normally alert on sirens when we are behind the fence and among the buildings. Here, he's starting to alert on a passing ambulance:
And here is the end of his alert. He's alerting from the ground, not a common position for him. Had I ignored him, he would have bumped me, but since I took his picture, he was pretty confident I saw him:
He then wandered off to investigate the nandinas - he sniffs them now but no longer tries to play with the leaves after getting terribly sick when he was younger and having to have his stomach pumped. He didn't realize the nandinas were still flooded, and he leaps out of the bed quickly:
Since we are out front and it's apparently busy times, as our outside time was ending and heading back to the building, he pauses to alert again:
Then he turns around and runs to me to tell my I need to pay attention, there's another ambulance passing by:
Once that was resolved, he trotted right through the door just as he was supposed to. I let him get far enough ahead of me so I could snap this photo:
And this one,too, where he's heading for our desk:
And that ended our brief 10 minute outdoor break today: two alerts, a dozen flowers sniffed, several pee stops, one poop, and the surprise garlic. Now he's probably wondering what other changes have occurred to his garden during the stormy weather.