The Evening Waits

He Leads, I Follow

The hound leads the way

I know that the dog is not supposed to walk the owner, but Pip and I have a general understanding - I let him basically go where he pleases as long as he doesn’t eat anything that’ll make him barf. Trouble is, he’s broken this covenant several times.

Our evening walks can be a pleasant mind clearer after a long day, and he has his little route that he sticks to and that’s fine. He doesn’t like going on long walks with me anyway because that would mean an extra ten minutes away from my wife and he’d probably just keel over and die if he went that long without her. (I also understand his feelings in this regard.)

So, we have an understanding. He leads, I follow, we stay to a general route, he poops and we get home fast before the ladies go to bed. If we’re lucky we don’t see any other humans because he loves humans and seeing humans delays the pooping.

So we walk nearly every night, regardless of weather, and elect to accommodate each other. I do most of the accommodating, pretty much.

I can’t think of the exact quote off the top of my head and am too lazy to look it up, but Mark Twain said of dogs that if going to heaven was based on merit instead of favor that no humans would make it in but all dogs would. I think he’s talking about innocence but my dog is anything but. He knows when he eats something he shouldn’t and he never learns. He’s like one of those carbon paper drawing boards where you lift up the sheet and it erases what was drawn there ever single time. That’s him. Every day is starting from scratch. Or maybe he just acts that way.

Anyway, he’s fine as far as dogs go. He loves the girls, as do I. He likes to walk around the neighborhood after dark, as do I. Not sure about heaven, but when I give him some treats and he acts like it’s heaven, so that’s something.

The evening waits for us and we’re there. Me and my dog. The cat just scowls.

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BIG BIG NEWS! Friends, a big reveal is coming up tomorrow and I hope you’ll all join us. As many of you know, the second volume in our NH Rocks field guide series dropped earlier this week. Well, tomorrow Little Bean will be revealing her designs for the feild guide Patch Quest and Completion Certificate. We’ll reveal those designs here at 10am and also over at our Facebook NH Rocks Community. Please stop over there and join up as well!

Little Bean is very excited to show you what she created. We’ll see you then!