Lady finally gets playful

HERE'S AN OLD SHOT OF LADY (THE MOSTLY WHITE
DOG IN THE BACK) PLAYING WITH OTHER DOGS.

Lady rarely gets playful anymore, but she did today at the dog park. I was walking behind her, and she turned and gave me her doggie grin. She dropped into her playful stance, and started running this way and that around me.

I bent over in my version of her playful stance and got her going. She probably did that a half-minute before she stopped, shook herself and continued across the grass like nothing had happened.

Almost ironically, a chihuahua tried to play with her earlier today — he pulled her tail to try to start play — but she ignored him.

NOTE: Lady passed on Sept. 17, 2016.

Contact: I can be reached at tgilli52@gmail.com or nc3022@yahoo.com. Also, my Twitter handle is EDITORatWORK.

More entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!