The dog days are not over. I feel they are just beginning. Thailand by far has more dogs than Bali or Malaysia, at least in the rural areas of Chiang Mai. Each walk or run I go on seems to involve a dog. Today’s walk with Viena and Ezra involved many dogs, a couple of leeches, and a curious or stubborn cow. Yes, our walked through the recently rained upon rice fields yielded two leeches – Don’t tell Dwana or she won’t follow us in next time. Both attacked Ezra. I guess the leech days are not over either. We were planning to walk a simple loop around the neighborhood that involved a short crossing of a farmer’s field, a crossing of the rice fields, a crossing a small river-ditch and then we would circle back to the village past the toy store. The Toy Store is added incentive-carrot for Ezra to keep going. The village market does actually sell 2 toys and balloons. This was our plan, but our hike almost ended at the beginningwhen a cow blocked the only way across the farmer’s field. After careful consideration, we walked skirted around the cow who was tied but not moving. In the rice fields Ezra gave that all too familiar cry now that is etched in my brain as well as the feeling is etched in Ezra’s – “Dad, something is biting my foot! Leech! Leech! Leech!” I could not believe the words, but sure enough. And then the dogs … to be continued.
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