All Kinds Of Pets Were Taken For A Walk This Morning.

A good start to a short week.

Wednesday is a public holiday so many a cunning worker has taken a few days leave only to be rewarded with a week of holiday bookended by two weekends. Not too shabby!

Suffice to say that this morning the paths were fuller than normal. At first I had a solitary reflection upon life which wonderfully changed when I ran into Ingrid and her Johnny. He spotted me first and galloped toward me with such exuberance and joy. Dogs, aren't they special? Strangely enough I almost solely recognize people by their dogs.

As we hadn't walked together for a long time, we joined up for a short stretch in order to catch up on all the on dits. The smaller the place the longer it takes...

Just as we were about to part ways, Ingrid spotted what looked like a big dog coming toward us and she decided to keep Johnny by her side, not knowing how ferocious this big dog might be. Both of us were trying to focus on the shape yet had no luck despite both of us wearing optical glasses. I rather took it to be a large man walking with his wife.

The mysterious shape revealed itself moments later...it was a local young lass walking her horse. Yes, on a leash just like one would walk a dog. When I passed her I asked her why she wasn't riding her horse and she told me that it had an allergy which she didn't want to risk making it worse. Isn't it amazing how animal owners do anything and everything for their pets? Lovely.

Despite it having been rather early, the village was teeming with activity. The graveyard is never without someone filling a watering can, the brush cutters' echo from the distant vineyards, mad tweeting between birds and the odd passing car adds a base to this wonderful rural ditty.

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