{"id":2143,"date":"2013-09-21T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2013-09-21T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T20:25:58","slug":"rain-a-river-and-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Rain, a river and a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four inches of rain fell here in Central Texas over the last two days, and the rivers are finally flowing again! Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>So today we took Sadie, our dog back to the North San Gabriel River in Georgetown, to check out how full the river was. We were not disappointing!\u00a0 (These pics were taken with my phone camera so excuse the quality.)<\/p>\n<p>The river was full and flowing rapidly,&#8230;&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_1106351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2164\" alt=\"20130921_110635\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_1106351-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_1106351-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_1106351-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> and the vegetation was green and revived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2163\" alt=\"20130921_102739\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102739-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102739-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102739-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102739-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were even a couple of little fairy pools open for the season.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2161\" alt=\"20130921_102549\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102549-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102549-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102549-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102549-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2162\" alt=\"20130921_102535\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102535-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102535-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_102535-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>A lovely sight to see.<\/p>\n<p>Last month when we visited this river it was painfully dry. So dry in fact that we actually found some Dinosaur tracks in the river bed. How cool is that??<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2157\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00177-20130810-09371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2157\" class=\" wp-image-2157\" alt=\"IMG00177-20130810-0937\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00177-20130810-09371.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00177-20130810-09371.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00177-20130810-09371-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Standing on dinosaur tracks in the middle of the river bed.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00174-20130810-0935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2146\" alt=\"IMG00174-20130810-0935\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00174-20130810-0935.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00174-20130810-0935.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00174-20130810-0935-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00174-20130810-0935-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00175-20130810-0935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2147\" alt=\"IMG00175-20130810-0935\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00175-20130810-0935.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00175-20130810-0935.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00175-20130810-0935-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG00175-20130810-0935-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Today however, the river looked gloriously different, and although the dinosaur tracks were now covered in many inches in muddy water, it made for happy canine frolicking in the shallow rapids!<\/p>\n<p>At first Sadie was a little cautious&#8230;&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_110710e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2151\" alt=\"20130921_110710e\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_110710e-1024x1017.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_110710e-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_110710e-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_110710e-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_110710e-301x300.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>carefully scrutinizing the water, making sure nothing scary was going to grab her.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112744e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2152\" alt=\"20130921_112744e\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112744e-1020x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112744e-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112744e-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112744e-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>But when she finally decided no danger lurked beneath the muddy waters, she was off! Racing through the water like a berserk bear hunting for salmon.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113540e1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2156\" alt=\"20130921_113540e\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113540e1-736x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113540e1-736x1024.jpg 736w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113540e1-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113540e1.jpg 1511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Running onshore just to splash us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>and then dashing back in again.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113200e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2174\" alt=\"20130921_113200e\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113200e-1024x956.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113200e-1024x956.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113200e-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113200e-321x300.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113249e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2155\" alt=\"20130921_112757ed\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112757ed1-905x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112757ed1-905x1024.jpg 905w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_112757ed1-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2148\" alt=\"20130921_113249e\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113249e-894x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113249e-894x1024.jpg 894w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921_113249e-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to think 3 months ago this dog wouldn&#8217;t even get into a tub to be washed&#8230;.barely could stand her drinking bowl.<\/p>\n<p>After an exhausted swim session we took the soggy dog back home for a much needed bath! Oh the mud that came out of that mutt.<\/p>\n<p>After a vigorous towel dry&#8230; and romp on her mat&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130913_175626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2158\" alt=\"20130913_175626\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130913_175626-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130913_175626-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130913_175626-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130913_175626-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> Exhaustion set in&#8230;..<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130527_141205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2159\" alt=\"20130527_141205\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130527_141205-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130527_141205-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130527_141205-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130527_141205-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>and off to dog dream land she went. Ah what a wonderful day it was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130504_162841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2160\" alt=\"20130504_162841\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130504_162841-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130504_162841-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130504_162841-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130504_162841-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four inches of rain fell here in Central Texas over the last two days, and the rivers are finally flowing again! Woohoo! So today we took Sadie, our dog back to the North San Gabriel River in Georgetown, to check &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=2143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}