Donna is visiting us again.

Starring: flatties Eddie & Alfie, Donna the labrador and the goats Lumikki, Wilma & Wilho.

Today’s walk was in Pamber Heath.  A piece of common land on the North Hampshire border.  The milky sunlight & the autumnal colours were lovely.  At 14 degrees centigrade the weather mild. 

With the clocks changing our chances of getting a good run in the forest are diminishing.  These walks are becoming fewer & are therefore a big treat.

The boys were taken to the office on Tuesday. Not inside the office building of course but they waited in the car while I was having 1.5 hour meeting with my boss.

After that they met Marja shortly in the parking area. Marja has also a flat coated retriever and she hasn’t seen boys since we moved to the country side.

Then we went to see my nephew Aleksi and took him for a walk. He had his cycle so I end up running/jogging most of the time. Sometimes very fast because some short periods Alfie was drawing him. Aleksi was so happy about it.

It was also good exercise for my boys: “city jogging” on a leash.

Eddie, Aleksi, Alfie

It has been very busy for Donna, the visiting lab.

She has seen goats and cats at my place, and Wednesday I took her to the horse stable.

Today was her 4th day here and the walks are getting longer for her. Here you can see the tour (map) with photos.

When I moved here last year, Otto the neighbor dog, (RIP) was quite fat but during his last year he was getting fit & lost lot of weight and wasn’t fat at all.

Donna isn’t overweight at all, but she is getting fitter here

My boys are very fit. I have tried to make them tired by taking them for a long bicycle ride (15 km) but after it they were not tired at all. You cannot say the same about me…. I need to get more fit. I used to be very fit but I’ve been a bit lazy lately. At least I’m back in the track again.

We have a brand new whistle.

The pink whistle supports the cause of breast cancer.

A good whistle, just like my “orginal” one with the same tone too. I already tested it on Tuesday when we went for a walk with the dogs.

Here’s more photos of the “Jäkälä” , Lichen, that Michelle was asking about

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Alfie & Eddie have a visitor: a chocolate labrador called Donna.

Donna came here on Sunday evening and she will stay here until next Monday when her owners are on holiday. She has also two “sisters” but they are staying at their “grandparents”.

The whole gang has been surprisingly calm. At first there was the normal hassle but after a while they all settled down nicely.

Donna is not used to cats so she is very very interested in them. Also goats are new to her but she does not show as much interest to them anymore as she does for cats.

We had a nice morning walk today and here is the tour with photos.