so i stayed in milledgeville until thursday morning when i drove to grandma's. i got a lot of work done and got to spend some time with this girl who's growing on me every day. i had to swing by blockbuster to drop off a dvd, and out of habit left my door open while i slid it into the slot. well, apparently blue sees open doors as an escape route, and he decided he'd run away from me in the middle of the busiest part of milledgeville. there's this little five lane road called 441 that runs in front of blockbuster, and blue decided to run into it. a car expected him to get out of the way, so they didn't slow down until the last instant. i don't know how they missed him, but i've never seen him run so fast, so scared, from in front of the car, right back to me. i've heard of smelling fear, but i've never actually smelled it until then. i don't know if blue leaked something or what the smell was, but he smelled awful until about an hour later. and he wouldn't sit in the passenger seat like he usually does. he curled up in the floor behind mine. i don't know how he fit back there, but apparently he felt more comfortable there. at the farm he got to run around in the mud and scare dogs twice his size away from him. this lab was barking at him, but whenever blue walked towards him to play, the dog jumped over a fence back into his pen. we spent a few hours with the family before justin and i headed to athens to grab our bikes and his jeep for our trip to the smokies.
we stayed in this rundown holiday inn in knoxville. it wasn't too far of a drive to cades cove, the place we camped every year of our life until i was about 20. we had planned on biking the 11 mile loop road that goes arond the cove, but it was too cold, and there were too many cars, so we took a 5 mile hike to see abrams falls. there are a lot of log bridges, and blue wasn't too keen on walking across them, so i decided i'd let him cross through the creek and let justin catch him on the other side. bad idea. justin chased him until his asthma made him stop, and i ran after him a little longer. people tried to catch him on the way, but he had decided to go swimming in the swollen creek that leads to the falls and was soaking wet, so they let him go when they saw that. finally, about half a mile down the trail, he decided it'd be fun to play with these kids. then he turned around and ran by me, i tried to grab him but just pulled out a little fur, but justin however was sick of chasing him. he dove on him, tackled him like a pro, knocking a fairly large downed tree at the edge of the trail out of the way in the process. i risked slipping off the bridges from that part forward while carrying my wet muddy puppy. it's amazing how many people will stop and talk to you just because you have a dog. i got used to saying "thank you" instead of "howdy" whenever i saw people because all i heard was "pretty dog, pretty dog." we saw a bunch of deer and met our quota for black bears when we saw a momma out in a field. apparently her cubs were nearby and a lot of people pissed her off enough to where she'd stand up to scare them off. this guy got really close to take a picture, and i had him in the frame waiting for her to chase him off, but unfortunately she didn't. i wished i had a telephoto lense, but i'm not going to buy a new lense until this christmas and it's going to be a macro. maybe i'll get a telephoto with my first paycheck next summer. my friend lori who lives in maryville came to see us that night and brought a friend. we went to chili's for dinner and hung out at the hotel for a while. blue is getting so much better with company, he's calming down faster and faster.
we went offroading yesterday at tellico. i've never seen so many crazy machines. people will build anything and everything to take it offroading. from a suzuki samurai on 35s to just a frame with an engine in the front and a gas tank in the back. we rode some trails with about 10 other jeeps that are in my brother's club. justin impressed me. his driving's gotten a lot better and he handled a lot of things that scared some other guys with better jeeps with bigger tires and lifts. poor blue was trying to find a way to stand where he felt secure and it just wasn't happening. it was funny to watch him lay in half of the crate and slide from side to side as we climbed over rocks. he was really good the whole trip though, minus the times when he wasn't on a leash. we listened to the insanity of the uga/tech game on the way home. i fell asleep when i got back to milledgeville at about 9.
i'll post some pics when i get them back from walmart.
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