Noggins wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 8:03 pm
native pepper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 2:19 pm
Good to see you're up and about Dot and hope you're feeling better. I sometimes get up at 3 o'clock, in the morning.
If, and when, I get up at 3 Am, I have a "P " and go back to bed to continue my serenading of the night.
Bugger this staying up in the dark.
Love the early mornings, when it's quiet and normally peaceful and tend to go to bed pretty early at night because TV turns me off and not much else to do when not playing. Now it's dark by 5, can't do anything outside and with rain just about every day, pretty wet to work other than in the workshop and have done most things.
Take my dogs for walks before sunrise and we watch the night animals freaking out when we appear and the birds waking up, the dogs are always on alert as they watch intently without chasing them. Sometimes think they are wondering why the animals are running when they have no intention of chasing them, because they are to intent on having tugs of war or chasing sticks I throw, then trying to make me run faster to get the sticks off them. Little Bindi likes to hide her sticks then wants me to find them and if I don't she trots to where it's hidden pointing at it with her nose until I see it, then she runs off awaiting the throw and tries to catch it in the air. Problem is having one eye, sometimes she misses where it is and it lands on her, that's why throw the sticks flat, so if it hits her it won't hurt her. She has a pile of sticks outside the door to the house and picks which one she wants when we start to head off.
Dax the arthritic one, has come a long way since taking meat out of his diet, now he runs along beside me swinging a stick challenging me to grab it. If we are going down a hill, he is now running faster than I can keep up and is extremely pleased with himself. It also helps with my fitness, in the past I mostly walked when Dax was with me so he wouldn't get left behind, now it's game on and catch me if you can. Gave them some organic chicken yesterday given to me by a friend, haven't eaten chook for over a year, so made some nice fried chicken patties in avocado oil and they loved it, so did I.