The forecast was for torrential rain today.

I screenshot this last night.

We were running at 6.45am and I had 4 dogs to walk before 9.15am.

I honestly thought we’d all be washed away in this deluge.

So, in true Julie planning and thinking ahead to the nth degree, I walked the dogs last night at 8pm.

This was to get them the exercise in case I couldn’t get them out in the morning.

I had two beautiful walks.

It did me the power of good and made me wonder why I don’t do that more often in the evening.

I took a million photos.

Of course I did.

Now I should say here for anyone with a cow phobia… there are a lot of cows in this blog 😆

Mid poop?

Then I spotted another sun dog.

I’ve seen them a few times recently but only ever on the right side of the sun at sunset.

The dogs were loving this wee run around too. Bhru is very happy!

They’re all playing away oblivious to the lovely sky above them!

This cow was staring straight at us! The rest didn’t care.

It was lovely and mild…. I love Scotland’s late night sunshine.

There is beautiful colour everywhere. 💛

And then………………

Oh my actual god. 🐂 😱

Now this is not the biggest bull we’ve had in the fields near us… but this is definitely the closest I have ever had to pass one.

Look at those eyes.👀

All I could think of was that Calaidh had a red lead on 😆😆😆

We passed by unscathed.

If not a little bit shaky 😆

Then I looked back at the sunset!

So pretty.

Kind of ugly but dramatic!

So I dropped the 3 Borders home and took Khaleesi out for a short walk. More cows!!

And more sunset….

It was very good for the soul. 🌅

As I woke this morning it was raining quietly but steadily and Lynsey and I ran in it anyway.

Check the nick of my glasses 🫣😆

It was lovely. Warm but really fresh and I didn’t stop once. (That’s because Lynsey kindly ran at my pace rather than me being super speedy, although I was faster than my last few runs!!)

It was a lovely run. I’m so glad we went despite the weather.

My lovely peonies are wilting in the rain.

Look at the lovely Khaleesi… bless her. I have her on the lead in the garden so she doesn’t run about too much first thing.

We’re walking about taking photos of flowers. 😆

I was soaked to the skin anyway so I walked her up to the fields again.

She’s always on the alert.

Beautiful flowers, even in the rain.

Drookit!!

Check her investigating this cow. 😆

So it’s only 8am….. 😆

The rain never really came to anything, nothing like was forecast thankfully.

I was down at the little gift shop this morning. Had lots of lovely chats with Gayle.

I got home after 1pm and it’s already 3.20pm…. I’ve done some housework, had lunch and sat writing this, time flies when you have a millions photos to look through.

I feel very calm and relaxed today.

It’s a nice feeling.

There’s no overthinking or worry.

Just peace.

Hope you’re all having a great weekend.

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️