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Often on weekend mornings, Aesop, our dog, will end up at the dog park.  Today this excursion left him muddy.  He got a quick rinse with the hose.  While trying to get him dry Keziah brought him into his fenced area where he got the zoomies.  That little dog is fast.  Keziah decided to let him run through the towel like he was a bull before catching him to towel dry.     Other happy things from today: Keziah, Gideon, and I played a game called Fluxx . I like to describe the game as Calvinball  but as a card game. Calvinball is a game from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes where there are no rules and so any rules are made up randomly during the game. Fluxx has many different versions. We played the Chemistry version so many cards had elements on them. There is a goal to reach for to win while players change the rules, and goals, during the game. One of the cards had to do with Helium. If a player had a helium card they had to talk wi...