I love to explore a new place.
This place looked like it was another planet. There were big and small rocks and some were very lightweight and some felt like they were maybe petrified wood, which I have touched before.
I saw black clouds headed our way and eventually we had lots of wind and hail!
We ended our hike because Daddy said lightning was possible and we were taller points on such a flat area. It is not good to be out when there is lightning because it is bad for your body or could kill you if it strikes your body.
When we were driving away we found some dogs that we think were maybe dumped because someone didn’t want them anymore. They were very hungry and cold and small and cute. They seemed like they had been outside for a long time, either in this area or maybe they only lived outside when they lived with people. Mama tried to get them. She gave them food so they would trust her and they sniffed her hands and one licked her. But when she tried to get them to jump into the car for food they would NOT go. So she tried to grab them but they did NOT like that and it seemed like they would bite. She cleared out a spot in the back and put on her water proof jacket because she thought if they bit her, the jacket would protect her arms and she put her hands into the jacket too. They wouldn’t let her pick them up. She worked on this for an hour or so and finally she contacted the animal control when we were where the phone would work again. We left them a lot of food to eat (we had quinoa and lentils and beans and this sort of looked like wet dog food). The pictures Mama took went online on a local ‘Lost and Found Pets’ website and a lot of people said they would go try and get the dogs themselves. Some said that they would never have left like we did, but it just wasn’t possible to get them into our car.
This felt very, very, very sad. We all would have liked to keep them.