I haven't updated this blog for several months.  There hasn't been anything of medical interest for the Addison's interested, Jack's health has been excellent.
Jack's starting to act a little like a dog, to my great delight.  We were out at Lake Chabot with the Oodles of Poodles crowd, which included a number of dogs Jack didn't know.  Jack is slow to trust new dogs, generally.
There were a couple of youngsters, 7 and 11 month old standard poodles on this trip.  They habitually ran ahead of the group, running back and forth between their owners and point.  Sometimes they'd engage Jack with a sniff and a play bow.  Jack would bark, lunge and run them off.
Of course, the puppies thought this was a new game.
Pretty soon, they'd run away, and run back to bounce in front of Jack again.  Pretty soon, it had us all laughing and Jack running back and forth on the trail with the pups.  Jack got comfortable with the whole thing, and might have got the idea that this is what "Play" is all about.

Lake view...

A couple of other adventures we've been on were trips to the beach in Albany, and the "Albany Bulb", once a dump for demolished construction waste and recently a homeless encampment known for it's um.. artistic side.

And of course, Mike and Martha's Dunsmuir Ridge Temple to the Universe...

We went 'swimming' in Lake DelValle, but Maya did most of the swimming...

and talked about it a lot....