We had rain and rather cool temperatures this morning when we woke up but just before I was going home from work the sun broke through and now it’s warm and nice and thankfully still a strong wind that keeps most flies away in the forest. The few that tried to follow us didn’t have the chance to try and get inside our noses or ears. Sometime I do like strong winds 🙂 🙂

Surprisingly few ticks in the grass as well today even if it still was quite wet after thew rain. I only found one walking on Malkolm and none on Alma. Alma seems to slowly accept the new neighbours, the ones with the horses. She didn’t scream at all when we passed, just sort of very loudly whining when we passed and it didn’t feel like she was trying to rip of my shoulder either. Small steps but I’ll take any steps forward 🙂

If we aren’t walking on the paths and small roads in the forest the grass will grow really high. I’ve avoided to do that because of the ticks so the grass is now waist high in many places. No one else seems to be walking there and on one hand that’s nice because no one will sir up Alma to high level excitement 🙂 On the other hand they do miss some wonderful walks in there. All birds singing, sometimes a fox or some deer pass in front of us and the badgers of course, then again most people believe badgers are dangerous so perhaps it’s a good idea that they stay away 🙂 🙂 🙂

It’s time for that last cup of tea for the day and today I’ll have some chocolate covered Hobnobs with the tea. I think I’ll sit myself down on the kitchen stairs while drinking it so the dogs can run around and play as they please for a while. The forest dove is still nesting in the Ginnala maple so I try to avoid being close to it for as long as they are there, I don’t wan’t the monsterkitten to know they are there.

Have a great day!