Pete and I had a quiet moment this afternoon and did some male bonding.
The fact that he had some cheesy wotsits made it all the more interesting and I went through my entire repertoire of tricks to impress him.
Sit!
Shake!
Down!
Did it work? You bet it did!
This mornings walk was a bit short and wet. We’ve had quite a bit of rain so this afternoon we decided to check out if the river was overflowing again. I walked beautifully to heel all the way through the village and on the way to the river we met the calves.
I said ‘Hi’ and tried to get them to play with me but they weren’t interested. They made some funny noises!!!
When we came to the bridge we had a good look how much higher the river was since yesterday. A fair bit! Will we get through the fields?
Yes! We made it!
Checking rivers is thirsty work.
For humans too.
Don’t you just lurve tossing potatoes about in a freshly ploughed field? – I do! This mornings walk was full of action like that, and naturally the dirt stuck well and truly all the way up my legs and right up to my chest. It’s a good job I ‘found’ the bird watcher at the beginning of the walk (or else Elke would have had to apologize…again!).
Anyway, just before going back to the car we have to pass over (or through!) a little overflow stream which has stepping stones in it. Elke took the stepping stones and I walked right in there … and laid down in it. She was sooo happy! ‘Automagic self-cleaning superdale’ she called me! Yes Ma’am, just doing my job! We forgot to take the camera though.
Later on after drying off properly we had a cuddle on the new bench. I stayed cuddling for 2 whole minutes – This is the Dale whose humans were contemplating buying chain mail gloves when he was a puppy!
So there I was cuddling, with my head on her lap and everything! – not even nibbling a bit! Mind you I think she deserves it. She worried a lot when I was poorly and kept going on the computer and in her books until she found an answer (She is a bit like a terrier herself when it comes to things like that.).
The outcome of it all is that the food I’m getting is now all human grade – no more pet food at all. This means we’re baking! And I lurve baking, especially pastry … because it has lard in it, and I lurve lard… and cheese!!!
These are some home made treats for when we are on walks – cheese biscuits, with lard and … cheese.
They are so good! Definitely …
