Hesed and Varoom! at Morning Playtime
10-19-25
Hesed 10 years 8 months old. Varoom! is 3 years 11 months old
I hoped to get photos of my crew before the fall colors were over. Two weeks of heavy rain didn’t help any, but I finally had a day of decent weather when I was home, so I tried. There wasn’t a lot of tree color yet, but the grasses around my fence-post pile had dried to a beautiful light-gold color that sure captured the sunlight. I hadn’t been able to get a handyman all summer, so the grass hadn’t been cut down, which I usually do to prevent the dogs getting grass seeds in their ears. To get the colors AND have the sun behind me, I had to use an area that slopes downhill. It did make for some interesting photos of them coming uphill! I was pleased that most of my kids showed off the beautiful reach they have in front from their great shoulders – we breeders work very hard to get excellent 90-degree angle shoulder conformation!
The light was particularly interesting during Hesed’s and Varoom!’s playtime. Clouds had mostly obscured the sun, darkening the light, but the sun managed to send a few golden rays which beautifully lit up my two golden girls. Hesed doesn’t like individual playtimes, so I pair the two, mother and daughter. Today she somehow lost her ball, and I couldn’t find it. I have two spare balls in a pouch on my chair, but once she has a ball, she refuses a substitute. So she spent most of the play session chasing Varoom! while Varoom! retrieved her ball. I was amazed at how many photos showed them perfectly in step with each other. The first five photos show Hesed. I never managed to get any photos of just Varoom!, but they sure had fun.
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