Making Waves

My kind of sport, getting a stick or a rubber duck safely out of the water. And then again, and again... But no swimming. Yet.

We had a scare this afternoon, when a horse with a rider on passed by just meters from my spot. It appeared very quietly, so we were taken by surprise. Lucky we were both sleeping under the apple tree some distance away, lucky we had the line attached, lucky we had the makeshift compost-net fencing up.

I have seen and met horses several times. But this was different. It sneaked up on me nearly on my own turf, and I didn't see it coming. I got really scared and barked like mad for a long, long time. The horse was completely indifferent, being used to border collies, I think.

Mum tried everything she could think of to calm me down. We spent the possibly last evening of summer on the porch, in peace and quiet.