Thursday, August 24, 2006

Dog

Sunny, 92/72, Fair to Change. Mowed again yesterday. The mowing does two things, it reclaims some of the land, and it gives the goats some more food. I'm only able to get out for about an hour a day right now, and it seems to be just enough food for the goats to finish off before the next day. They're almost like a land seagull, they get out of the way when I go by, and I'm not 5 foot past when they jump to the new mown area .

I've never became overly attached to any of our pets. Except for the one below:

There’s that dog again. I hate strays, but man it looks hungry maybe we should give it some food. All right now, here’s some bologna now git home.

Honey why’d you buy that dog food. You know we can’t keep her. She’ll be leaving here and going home anytime. No you can’t come inside you’ll wake the babies. All right you can stay on the porch. What should we name a dog like you?

Look Hon, one of the children is trying to ride Dog. She’s letting him too. He sure looks cute on top of her with his cowboy hat and gun. Get off her buddy Dog’s had enough fooling around.

No I can’t come home right now, what happened? What is Dog barking at? It’s a water moccasin by our front porch? Good thing she warned you. See if a neighbor will kill it

Go get em Dog….. She sure is getting good at bringing those whiffle balls back we hit. She won’t have anything to do with those basketballs though. Why are you crying buddy? Dog spilled all the fish out of the bucket? Well, she didn’t know any better..

Come here ol buddy, you’re sure getting up there in years. You’re as old as my youngest teen now. Its getting hard for you to dodge the older ones car when he pulls out isn’t it. Well, lets go down to the creek so you can lay in it and cool off.

Hey son, have you seen Dog? I haven’t seen her all day. Hey buddy, why are you laying under that shed whining? Lets go to the vet…… Cancer…. She can come back to the house until the pain gets too bad, then she has to be put to sleep.

I’ve never cried digging a hole before, especially for some stupid animal. An awful lot of tears flowing around the house today, even from the cool teenager.

Dog grew up with the kids, became their best friend and playmate. I guess she kinda became mine too.

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