Mud

Mud glorious mud – Wilma is a very happy dog. She is the only one of us who really loves mud and it has been months since we’ve had very much of it. Now it’s back and she’s happy. It has been so long since our Mistress has had to put her walking boots on to go for walks that when she took them out they had cobwebs on! Thankfully there were no accompanying spiders, but she wasn’t happy about the cobwebs and did wonder for a while where the spider might have gone.

Hay bale

Ari and I had been swimming so it was only the girls having walks today. Shadow had a stroll around the village, which she thoroughly enjoyed. She likes to keep up with what’s going on and pick up on the local gossip. It’s great because she comes back and then tells me, so I get to find out without leaving the house. Wilma on the other paw gets a longer walk and our Mistress particularly likes to go round the airfield. She says there is something about how open it is that just makes you feel as though you are away from the world.

Anyway, there are some big stacks of hay along the way now. Our Mistress makes Wilma walk well away from them for the most part so that she doesn’t have any accidents. Yesterday there was a bale sitting in the middle of the path and Wilma was spooked by it. Our Mistress has long since learned that if something spooks one of us, then the best thing to do is to show it to us properly so that we understand it’s ok. That meant taking Wilma up to the bale of hay, talking her all the way round it and then just for fun making her sit on it for a photograph.

Getting her own back

That was the point that Wilma got her own back by pulling faces while our Mistress took her picture. She said that our Mistress didn’t need to broadcast to everyone that she’d been spooked and of course she wasn’t worried by a bale of hay. At least she now knows it’s all right so won’t mind next time.

Have a great Wednesday

Alfie

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