walk every day

I’ve been slack with my walks, so yesterday I made the effort to go my 6 km walk down the road and back. I felt much better for it.

And now I’m trying to start back again. Mind you – a period of 3 to 4 weeks of 40 degree Celsius plus temperatures had not helped. The weather is cooler now – and it’s time to go for walks again. I managed a walk with my daughter on Monday before dark (taking the dogs and my poddy lamb with us around the front of the property).

I take my lamb for walks out to where the other sheep are. Also, we have some sheep that like going over to our neighbours place. To get them back on our side of the fence I have to walk them up to the gate between out properties in the top paddock, open the gate and make sure they go through it. That in itself is roughly a one km walk.

I’m walking nearly every day around the house paddock and sometimes up to the top paddock when I go around and do my lamb count. It a good motivation – wanting to know how my girls (the ewes) are going with their lambing. 23 live lambs to date.

checking the sheep and lambs, herding the geese down to the dam and then checking on my tree seedlings. I also opened up the gate to the back paddock so the sheep could browse up there through the day. At least it wasn’t as chilly today as the mornings have been. Still only 12 lambs.

That was a good thing. My first walk since coming home from visiting my family overseas.

To keep up with the sheep and help my husband move them to a different paddock. All up the walk would have been about 2 1/2 km.

Though had to cut it a little shorter because I neede to drive the car back up our driveway on the way back – the last 1 km of my 6km walk. Still. I did the walk. Must try again tomorrow.

A good 1 hour walk part way down the road and back. I think all up the walk would have been about 6 km. I feel a lot better for it. Thankfully the morning is nice and cool. Still – I’d like to start my morning walks a bit earlier than the 9 am of today. As I improve my waking pattern I should also improve my walking pattern.

But at least I do get out and walk. After many weeks of no walking I’ve had a week where I’ve been able to go for a few good walks. One of them was a good 10 km walk along a beach and roads with my son, who set a good pace for me. Another walk was in the evening around the neighbourhood of my dad. My son, 2 daughters and myself walked for about an hour at a steady pace. it felt good.