Fantastic day. Went to Putnam and treked in the state park with my buddy David and his dog Kobu. David lives on a road the runs into the park, reverting to a very rocky dirt road only three houses up from his. The park has great stone walls and other rock ruins. Because Putman is very rocky and hilly, the area was abandoned of farming long before other areas and these walls and rock foundations have to date to th mid-19th century or earlier, when folks from the Northeast moved to the Midwest for flat farmland.
We did a nice three-mile walk, basically following the dirt road, but diverting for a bit along an area that was once pasture land, divided by beautiful stone walls. I let Maya off her leash as soon as we were a little ways into the dirt road and she had a great time with Kobu, though the playing got a bit rough at times. Maya's paw was bleeding for a bit but I couldn't see anything really wrong with it and it seems fine now, as we sit in Dave's house, the dogs running around the house free and the kids—his three kids and his two nieces, the youngest being 2 and a half year old Samantha—playing with the dogs as if they were just a couple more kids. Now the dogs are tussling pretty rowdily! What a life: kids playing, the dogs playing and us sitting here drinking Powers whiskey! Could it get any better? Yeah. Food's ready!
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