Wally’s Great Adventures (52 – VOLUME UP – BORN TO RUN) hello friends, wally here. big day. its the weekend, and you know what that means, dad’s training sessions to become a world class show dog. and, i had extra lessons during the week to (a) ‘unravel all of moms softy training,’ like spiraling backwards he said, and (b) due to last week’s disaster, ‘disaster’ as dad described it, with not a whiff of exaggeration, calling me ‘a poor excuse for a Canadian, shivering like a hairless chihuahua, tip toeing in the snow, and running into mammas arms after like 3 minutes, sad, sad as sh*t’ he repeated. so he taught me how to be respectful to others, how to be polite, how to be passive aggressive whenever there was conflict (he must have failed that lesson, disaster, that’s what i would call that), and finally the need to become a good ice skater. he said i was not half bad on the canadian training, and coming from dad, that’s like a miracle. and then dad took me outside for more training. and what i show i put on. dad’s hands where like beet red from the cold snow balls he was rolling and tossing. but, he said, and first a moment of silence here to let this sink it, ‘dad said i was just incredible. like olympic caliber snow ball chaser.’ olympic star! did you hear that?!? could that have been a tear i saw from dad before he turned away? could dad have been that proud? wow. let’s see THAT again. have a great weekend everyone. Wally.