i love rainboots.

i think it's kind of like a snow in lake tahoe.  it's only 1-2 inches, people aren't comfortable with it, so they walk around like their going to have an afternoon hike up mt. everest.  i feel like this is what i look like during the rainy season here in ca.  rainboots, raincoat, & half the time, a baseball cap.  i look like a fool walking around target & to work, but on our daily trips to the dog park, jack has the most functional owner! 

the rain has been going for at least the last 2 months, so i've been marveling at all the green!  surprising what it can do with the "winter blues."  obviously, this "issue" doesn't exist out here!  along with the green, comes snails & slugs around here.  jacks ate 3 to-date.  thrown up 1.  (that we've found.)

i'll spare you the details on the digestive problems & show you some samples.  these creatures didn't show themselves often (or at all) in nd, so i'm amazed with the armies that come out when it's damp!  they don't survive very long in packs on our apartment complex sidewalks, but i got the chance to see them alive & well in a desolate area one morning last week.  jack only goes for the dime sized ones as shown, but there were some larger than quarters that came out that night -- gross, right?

i think they're cute.  i don't understand why jack wants to eat them.  because they move?  that's my theory.

they leave a sparkly trail in their path -- love!  it stays for days & marks all corners of our sidewalks.