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Because we haven’t inundated y’all with photos in a while:

That would be from left to right, Hankyo, Jennifer getting Hyouki used to the halter and lead, and Victoria employing her favorite tactic. Somebody in the past did a very good job training her in the fine art of being a big imobile lump.

After the training exercises, we haltered up Jim, Oak, and Pointer and took them all to the top of the hill — that first pic is StephenR and Oak jumping over the back stream (there *is* a stream under all that watercress and monkeymusk). Stephen and Jennifer have now joined the ranks of People Who’ve Climbed The Hill. Kudos to them, and also to Oak and Pointer, who did very well for being so over-stimmed.