Morning's Itinerary

It’ll be dark for another hour, but we’re awake and heading for the barn. The hounds’ excitement breaks the 5am silence. At 6:00 they’ll pour from the door and pack up on the front lawn. We’ll scale Knacker Hill and meander the countryside. By 7:30, we’ll be heading home on the gravel path through the Slacks’ apple orchard. Emerging with an apple each, we’ll eat breakfast by the pond while the hounds go swimming. The horses will slobber over apple cores all the way home. By 9:00 we’ll be up at the house, down for our nap.