I Hate Change!

The usual dog walk is to Watsness and back.  It is precisely four miles there and back with no hills.  Perfect.  I have been doing this walk for ages with BeAnne and/or Loki.  All was fine. It was part of my pre-surgery get-fit campaign.

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With Loki on a lead (as he cannot be trusted), BeAnne would come too.

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Until the other day when we met a herd of beef cows.  They were peacefully lying down so I went with the thought “let sleeping cows lie”.

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We haven’t met a herd of cows for a while.  I know that they live here as Haakon and I used to meet them occasionally years ago but I haven’t ever met them on foot.

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Sadly, they were not content with lying down and quickly got up to investigate us and with that BeAnne and Loki turned tail.

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We were followed home, as far as the gate which can be quite unnerving but I know they are a friendly bunch.

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So, today’s dog walk has to be different.  I have to find another 2 miles that is a good safe walk.

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We settled on going up the hill, which is hard work on foot but another step forward in my pre-op fitness campaign.  I settled for taking photos as I went to cheer myself up.  Anyone who knows me knows that I hate to walk and I especially I hate to walk up a hill – I have an Icelandic horse for that.  But, with a camera, I will walk anywhere for a good photo.  That is a completely different story.

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And then the battery went in my camera.  So that is that!  It was a good walk and now on my daily to-do list as those cows are rather scary.

 

7 thoughts on “I Hate Change!

  1. Deb Twomey

    As a child I often took long walks in rather unknown territories. On one such walk my dog ran ahead around the bend. A bit later she came running back faster than the wind. And behind her ran a herd of very angry, very fast black angus cattle. We could not outrun them so the dog bolted over a wire fence and I went head first right after her. Landing unfortunately in a large patch of poison ivy. I have never shared space with cows or cattle of any kind since!

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  2. Linda

    Ditto – the sea/land scapes there are truly breath-taking. Still miss the ponios though – I’m a pony per day person 😉 Cuz your ponios are all very special 😉

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  3. Sam

    I too dislike cows without a fence between us! Ditto on the hill walking. But your photos are AMAZING. So thank you for them!

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