19.11.10

morning run:
Alice
Lucy
Ginger
George
Shirley
April
Ziggy
(7)

Strange group, and we started strangely as well. Alice has what could be called crippling bovinophobia: she simply will not go by cows if they are close to the road. I intended to start out going down the dirty road, but the cows were all near the gate in their pasture; Alice balked, and comically so. I didn't want to fight it, and all of these dogs like water, so we crossed the "land" "bridge" (which is still up to my knee under water) and went out south, down the main road into town from the monte. We hadn't gone that way in a while. There was a group of salt workers eating their morning donuts on the road near the large tar-paper shack, and all of the dogs were angels. We entered the monte via that southern entrance we used to use all the time, which is now overgrown to the point that you almost can't see it. The way was high and dry for the most part, and very pretty. No flamingos at all. We took the road that goes by the palapa on stilts all the way to the Au Soleil Couchant access road, and then home via the monte... about 8k according to Google maps. Everyone did well. April was off the leash for almost the entire run (first time in a long while).
GRADE: A

afternoon walk:
Zasu
Henry
Greta
Tito
(4)

Shorty down the dirty road, to the dead goat intersection and around the loop home. Everyone was good.
GRADE: A