Thursday, August 13, 2015

Rainman Routine

In talking recently, we realized that we have fallen into quite a routine with Henry. Here's how a typical week plays out for us:

• Each weekday morning is at City Center (different area of the park each day)
• Monday nights=Memorial Park
• Tuesday nights=Reed Canal Park
• Wednesday nights=This is the Wild Card! It's either our neighborhood or the people beach (or an off night when I get to work from home on Thursdays)
• Thursday nights=The Pavillion Path
• Friday nights=Pet store (Petco or Pet Supermarket)
• Saturday night=Ponce Inlet dog beach
• Sunday nights=Doris Leeper Park

We never set out to create such stringent routine, but that was just how things worked out. Young Henry was an adventurer. He hated going for the same walk every night. He want to go someplace new every night. His personal motto was, No repeats!

Blind Henry, while still an adventurer at heart, does better when he visits places he is more familiar with. The parks he goes to on a regular basis he can navigate extremely well. New parks take some time for him to figure out.

Knowing that Henry loves to change things up, but that he needs to go someplace familiar is how we fell into our routine. Except for morning walks, there are no repeat during the week. So each night is a fresh new adventure. However, we just keep repeating the same parks week after week, so that blind Henry has a clue of where he is walking.

It seems to be a good routine that accommodates both Henry the adventurer and Henry the blind pug.

Given our routine, if we have any stalkers out there you are pretty much all set now.

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