Now What?

With the baby shower over and done, we found ourselves without a project on our roster. We haven't had that issue since, I dunno, last April when we lived like surf bums in Sun Diego. We had been working on the house and yard and other stuff with the goal being that we would rest after the shower as it may be the last time we are ever in the same room together as just US. So. Now what?
We made a leisurely breakfast, loaded up the Curtis, and headed down to the Applegate for some river time.
We hadn't taken Curtis to the river for a loooong time for many reasons but the main one being that we weren't entirely convinced that, once let off leash, he would ever come back to our calls. That or he would maybe kill every duck in a five mile radius and then go hunting for their mothers. He's wild, that one.

We did a little trial and error by throwing the frisbee into the water a little further each time he successfully retrieved it. To our surprise, Curtis was not just focused but determined to retrieve and go again and again into the water back to land and in again. He listened. He obeyed. He got all wet and loved it.
This is the same puppy that whimpered when his tail got wet last summer. Wow. The difference a year makes. I have a feeling that this is not the only time I'll be saying this about him. Good dog, Nerdle Bird Curtis, good dog.