Adventure 13 - A Dog's Day Out!

Increasingly we are finding ourselves re-creating or remembering things we have done in the past.

When we first stopped working formally (at the time I started writing this blog) we decided we would walk together as often as possible and for more than a year we kept it up, walking 4 or 5 times a week.  And then we both started working more regularly, and the momentum slipped away.

So on Thursday we decided to pick up the baton, I gritted my teeth, and we started again.

A walk without our beautiful choccie lab, Lindt, is not a real walk, so we packed her into the back of the car and set off for the Botanical Gardens.  It costs more for us to take Lindt into the Gardens than it costs for us (as Pensioners) but it's a nice walk and well maintained.  So many of the places we can walk are very jungly and overgrown.

Som fungus growing along the path at the Bot Gardens

 I hadn't realised quite how unfit I was until we started climbing the hill - it was hot and I kept stopping in every bit of shade.  Finally I gave up and told Pete and Lindt to go to the top of the hill without me.  Lindt was not happy when she realised I wasn't with them - she kept stopping and showing Pete I had been left behind, until he finally sent her to find m.  She bolted down the hill and rushed to sit at my feet.

We ended the "dog's day out" by going up to Piggly Wiggly which is a dog-friendly restaurant for lunch - we should have taken treats for Lindt - and we will next time - but she didn't mind sharing our burgers with us :-)

Now I need to think of a way of having fun with the cats!