The rules of the stick

It has to be the right stick.

The right length.

The right thickness.

The right weight and feel.

Much time is spent choosing the stick.

Minor flaws render seemingly perfect sticks ineligible.

The stick can be used as a sword, a machete, a light sabre, a telescope, a walking stick even.

Love for the stick is fleeting. As soon as we got home this stick was hidden under the bush in the front garden.

The next trip out will involve a search for another stick.

Anyway just prior to picking the stick we were engaged in poking the ground with clean trainers which had immediately followed dipping non waterproof trainers in fresh puddle.

Maybe it hasn't rained for so long Son #1 sees it as a real oddity!?

I have a whole body weariness as a result of yesterdays' efforts but strangely no aches and pains..

Back to work tomorrow so no opportunities for cows and fields, merely suburbia!