We are a little late to the party, but today we are celebrating Walk Your Dog Week. #DogWalkingWeek
Usually our walks involve walking to a hunting spot, walking through a field or a forest hunting, or walking as part of hunt test training, (actually these things involve more running than walking for the dogs). As a result, we don’t do many walks on lead.
But sometimes you just have to slow down, change your pace, and enjoy the walk.
Last Saturday was one of those days. It was gorgeous out. Sunny and warm. Freighter and I headed off for a walk to the river. I was hoping to see a bit of color, but there wasn’t much yet.
The road leading to the river has a steep slope toward the river. It also has loose sand in spots. On top of the loose sand are a lot of acorns. We had a bumper crop this year. Freighter and I practiced him not getting ahead of me or pulling on the leash. He always wants to walk faster than I do because he is used to walking next to hubby who is tall and covers a lot of ground quickly. I was afraid that one good tug on the sandy hill full of acorns and I would slide down the hill into the river. (OK that is a bit of an exaggeration.) Freighter was a good dog. He did not pull the leash and stopped and waited patiently while I navigated my way down to the river.
Once near the river I wanted a few pictures. It was tough to find a good spot.
All Freighter wanted to do was eat.
I guess he worked up an appetite walking.
Freighter was on the lookout for any ducks that might fly by.
But in the end, the only things buzzing around were the gnats that came out with the warm weather. Once they found us, we did not stick around long and continued on with our walk. We sure enjoyed the change of pace.
Thanks to Cascadian Nomads, Wag’N Woof Pets & Dolly The Doxie for the Walk Your Dog Week hop!
What a handsome boy – too bad the fall colors are still in hiding.
It is good to have a nature walk! Maple trees here are turning red and that deep crimson, and falling. Hope you did not find too many acorns, that means heavy winter? Freighter is maturing into quite the gentleman Chessie!
Really? Well there are a lot this year despite the number of diseased oaks. Guess we best get ready for winter.
That one pic, my mouth is full… made me laugh so hard! haha! that face!!
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Freighter looked great against the backdrop of the river, and what a beautiful place for a walk. Years ago I heard that when there are large amounts of acorns in fall, it meant a cold, rough winter ahead. We’re seeing a LOT of acorns around here too, so let’s hope that was just an old farmers’ tale! (Although those farmers knew nature better than anyone!)
Such a gorgeous man.
What a nice walk! A little change of pace is always good, isn’t it? If Luke doesn’t have his nose stuck to the ground when we’re walking, then he’s eating grass and whatever, so I can relate to that! We haven’t seen the acorns around here (I think there are just not a lot of oaks where we walk), but I’m always reminding the dogs not to pull me down hills when we’re on slippery leaves!
Thanks for joining our celebration….better late than never, and you made it with time to spare anyway! 🙂
what a nice walk.
That looks like it was a really nice walk! we hope the fall colors come out for you soon.
That looks like a lovely walk! The “full mouth” pic is SO cute! It’s still been hot here and we keep having to cut our walks short. But *supposedly* that’s going to change tomorrow. Unless they’re lying to us again!
Luckily my 2 don’t pull or I would be down the hill, rocks and into the creek. Sounds like you had a good walk.
Looks like a nice area for a little walk in the woods.
It looks like a great place to take a walk.
The acorns are out of control here, so dang many of them. Every walk I hear them falling and bouncing off houses and cars. I have had my feet shift a little bit on them too, so I’m extra careful when walking also, and we have the dry, dead leaves which are also slippery.
Our leaves finally started to turn (very late this year) it’s looking very pretty around here now.