Rich was giving me a hard time about not taking Sascha out scootering today.  It was a nice cool day with low humidity.  Perfect scooter weather.  Sascha’s been going a little stir crazy since Rich had his cortisone shot.  I didn’t feel up to walking her.  So I felt guilty and took her for a spin around the neighborhood.

Sorry there’s no video today.  All you would get is me bobbing my head and screaming, “Easy” and “On By!”  Sascha is very fast and I find it a little scary to feel like I have so little control.  I bet she is going faster than posted speed limit in the neighborhood, which is 20.  The easy command tells her to slow down and not pull so hard.  I don’t think it worked though.  She was pulling me at flat out top speed.  My weight and the weight of the scooter aren’t enough to slow her down!

I started off on flat ground so it wasn’t as scary a takeoff as last time coming down the slope of the driveway in front of the garage.  But it doesn’t take her long to get up to speed either.  I tried to slow her down for the cross streets so I could check traffic.  She doesn’t like that much.

I took her down Hickory Street to the lake and then down Lakeview, which has a slight rise on it.  She hits the top of the hill at a good speed and then I start whizzing by her on the scooter.  You can almost hear her laughing about it!  She thinks it’s fun.  At least she didn’t pull a Grinch and jump on the scooter like Max on the sled.  That might have freaked me out. 

It’s been a while since she’s been scootering because the weather and humidity have been too warm for it.  Remember the temp and humidity can’t be a combined total of 120.  We’ve just had such a warm spring so far.  Sascha was having trouble listening for directions.  She got confused on whether to go straight or to turn.  In her world, the lead dog makes most of the decisions and the rider just makes corrections.  I wanted to call the shots and that creates some confusion. 

Oh well, we survived.  Sascha got to take a run.  I got some more practice on the scooter.  And Rich fixed the handbrake, which needed adjustment after I was cranking on it so hard to keep Sascha for exceeding the speed limit by more than 5 MPH!  Maybe over the next few days, we’ll try again.