I thought you had a dog as well as all the cats? I’m guessing he or she is too old to do much walking now? Since we got a dog my per diem walking has easily doubled. And she’s a small dog, too.

It’s a bit unfair to compare, though, because I’ve walked a lot most days the whole of my life. Even before the dog it was a rare (Probably rainy) day when I didn’t walk for an hour or so. If I was working it was way more than that. I only work two days a week now but each of those days involves around 6 hours of walking and the rest is standing. And then after work it’s an hour walking the dog before I get to sit down…

On the one walk thing, pre-dog we used to take the same walk every day purely for excercise (in addition to many other walks for pleasure) and we found it fascinating to see the small, incremental changes to the landscape throughout the seasons. It was also very interesting every time one of us spotted something new or unexpected. The same walk every day can be mentally stimulating if you find those kind of things of interest.