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scottishlassYesterday there was a glimpse of high summer at last. No rain during the day and afternoon (the torrents came late when we were back home) and a hot sun shining from a pristine blue sky.
His Hubbiness™ and I decided to take the dogs down to the Rhine again for perhaps the last warm summer day. After preparing a small bento for each of us, we started out.
After all that rain, the river Rhine is fat, and dark and seems to carve a new bed for himself but everything is still within limits. Good thing is we have a lot of meadows right on the river's edge which are used as flooding areas before the dykes. Most Rhine cities and towns have dried these marches and meadows and used it as building land but not here in my hometown. So when floods are impending, even heavy flooding, we are relatively safe and only the occasional cellar fills up due to the high groundwater.
Anyway, for the first time Cenour Kimura retrieved one of his wooden sticks completely without any coaxing. I guess he now has the hang of it with all that retrieval business. After all, he had been a hunting dog which only had to show where the prey was but he never had to retrieve any of it. Now he loves to run after a stick, catch it and bring it back to me by throwing it at my feet. And if I fling it into the water, then it makes him doubly happy.
His Hubbiness™ and I decided to take the dogs down to the Rhine again for perhaps the last warm summer day. After preparing a small bento for each of us, we started out.
After all that rain, the river Rhine is fat, and dark and seems to carve a new bed for himself but everything is still within limits. Good thing is we have a lot of meadows right on the river's edge which are used as flooding areas before the dykes. Most Rhine cities and towns have dried these marches and meadows and used it as building land but not here in my hometown. So when floods are impending, even heavy flooding, we are relatively safe and only the occasional cellar fills up due to the high groundwater.
Anyway, for the first time Cenour Kimura retrieved one of his wooden sticks completely without any coaxing. I guess he now has the hang of it with all that retrieval business. After all, he had been a hunting dog which only had to show where the prey was but he never had to retrieve any of it. Now he loves to run after a stick, catch it and bring it back to me by throwing it at my feet. And if I fling it into the water, then it makes him doubly happy.
