Skabby back at Parkrun

 Good morning, dear Blogger friends. Thank you for your kindness in visiting and commenting on my blog even though I'm challenged to getting to visit you all. I will get there. Promise!

Thank you, too for the kind enquiries about my dearest Skabby. He is ultra healthy and back to his normal self.  I constantly have a chuckle. Many other vintage ladies like me, are asked about the health of their spouses. I am asked Jo, how is your dog? Most people ask: Jo, how is Skabby?

He is hail and hearty AND the weather is cooling down rapidly now as autumn eases into the South African winter. 

Last Saturday, we had late rains and normally I would not venture onto the 5km track. But thinking this was a great opportunity to get Skabby back into a walk without the vicious Africa sun which has plagued us this summer past. 

From the start to the end it rained. A steady drizzle. I walk in my top and running skipants or shorts, winter and summer. The body seems to heat up within the first 200m, and I don't relish having to remove a windcheater and tie it around my waist.

This day I did warm up within the first half kilometer, but by then I was soaked to the skin. Skabby was lapping up the coolth and damp on his newly groomed and shaved body. He has also lost weight since I started him on a strict regime (diet is a four-letter word in my business, LOL!). The day he was discharged from hospital in early March, he had lost 8.2kg. (18lbs in imperial measure)

I didn't have photos of him at Parkrun. At the end, I loaded Skabby into the car and came straight. He rolled around blissfully on the sodden lawn at home. 

Skabby rolling around on the lawn after his first Parkrun this year!

The above is a screenshot of a video. Often, I will hear chortling sounds and going outside, I see Skabby rolling around on his back, obviously saying in doggie talk: oooh, life is sooo good!

 Me? That day, I ran a hot bubble bath and wallowed until I thawed. 

Skabby enjoying a drink from his monster plodging bowl!

One friend remarked on the size of Skabby's bowl. I explained that he has two other (much smaller) water bowls just to the right of this mammoth receptical. He uses this to cool down after walks by stepping in with his front feet, dipping his head under the surface, blowing bubbles and drinking water at the same time. Clowning about is obviously the sign of a happy, healthy dog! (IMHO - in my humble opinion!)

From this deplorable state in early March...

...to this healthy pooch off to enjoy his bone on the lawn

Now...

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before I bore everyone to tears, I will sign off with:

HAPPY TUESDAY TO YOU ALL!