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A new day. A new life continues.

"Salute!"  Xena announced to the world as she came out of the van first thing this morning.  Rosie came with her.  Both paused and then jumped down and stood looking at the dawn. 

"Salute!" Xena said again.  Rosie barked twice. She gave me a military type of a salute, Rosie barked her salute.  Then they both left. 

I knew the salute she was going to go to for this second day in a row.  We were at the same campground we were at yesterday when she introduced me to her magical elfin dog.  At least that's what she called Rosie the terrier.  I couldn't explain, nor wanted to I decided, why Rosie shifted colors like a chameleon.  Who was I to try and decide the ways of Xena's mind and her pet, although Rosie seemed to like me almost as much as Xena.  I took what I could get from Xena, and now Rosie.

Salute to the Sun is what Xena called her exercises.  She took to a group yesterday and I guessed that she was on her way to exercise again this morning.  I supposed that no one was doing tai chi in this campground so now she was doing yoga.  No telling what would be the exercise next week.  I would go for a run and then have some breakfast.  Xena talked about staying another day and swimming here at the lake to keep cool.  We were in a heat wave in the 100's and no one at the campground talked about anything but staying cool in the water, in the shadows and staying away from the high temperatures in the towns.