WHEW! The celebrations are over!
(Hope your Christmas was the very best!)
TLC and Boo Berry
Mom has been having adventures without Boo and me.
I can’t say I really wanted to be with her on those treks.
First, two of the cows on the place figured out how to jump into the dry canal, and scrabble out onto the other side—which happens to belong to someone else.
Then they ran here and there and everywhere.
The Rancher’s Wife came down to help—horse and three cow dogs. In about 20 minutes, the cows were up, the gates secure, the horse and dogs loaded up and headed up the road to home.
Mom says Cow Horses and Cow Dogs are amazing to watch. And the rancher, herself.
Then the next morning, one of the horses that lives with us. Decided she needed a boyfriend and jumped clear over the fence into the cows.
Guess what —No Boyfriend there.
That took Mom to walk T’Atat and LaVerne into the barn/corral and Dad to come behind with Glory.
Of course, nothing is ever E.A.S.Y, but still everyone got in and fed and watered—whew!
I heard Mom and Dad talking about everything when they came into the house.
I told Boo Berry what they said. Boo Berry…our fearsome, Austrian Shepherd sighed with relief, “I’m so glad, I’m not a cow dog.”
I just stared at her. Really, I thought. Your breed IS cow dog.
Oh, well.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLF!
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!
Mom and I were outside. It was the dark time.
No Moon.
I had to pee….Yes, I did.
Suddenly, Mom and I heard
They are back! (Click on the blue link to hear how they sound)
I sang back to them a little tiny bit, then they sounded closer.
Mom told me, “Boo, Stop That! You aren’t big enough or strong enough to hold your own!”
Then she swooped down, grabbed me up, and took me into the house.
Shish!
Boo Berry Betty
P.S. That is short for postscript. Meaning I’m adding something else on to this: TLC was already in the house. Mom says he is no fool.
I wonder what she means by that?!
MOM!!!!! TLC yelled.
MOM!!! Boo Berry yelled.
“I’m here! I’m here!” Mom replied.
“Let’s go for a walk!!” We pranced and danced around her.
“Walk? You want to go on a walk?” Mom asked us.
“Oh, yes!”
Boo Berry zoomed ahead. TLC dashed right in behind her.
“Okay! We are off!”
We exploded onto
the farm with Mom.
“Home again, Home again….whew! I need a nap!” TLC puffed
“Me too,” Boo Berry confirmed.
“Come in, kids, it is time to take a nap. Come in, Boo Berry”, Mom invited.
So in we went.
Happy, content. Satisfied!
TLC and Boo Berry
MOM!!! I yelled.
“I’m here! I’m here!” Mom replied, bending down to pet us.
We were all staring at the sky.
That big, beautiful, amazing sky.
The Northern Lights!! (aurora borealis). I have only seen these once in my life, and I was probably around 10 when I saw them. Mom told us.
WOW!
We are so lucky, Boo Berry and TLC. WOW!
The frost is heavy now.
Boy, do I like it! No more heavy heat that makes me pant, and Boo pant.
Mom and Dad get hot, too. Boo Berry chimed in.
Oh, well, I suppose so, but they don’t have fur! I snapped.
HEY! Boo Berry, I hollered—CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!
So off we went.
Playing hide and seek.
And catch me if you can!
TLC and
Boo Berry
Chapter Ten
“Hey, Boo,” I meowed at Boo Berry. “Let’s go outside. I heard something out the bedroom window last night while everyone was sleeping.”
“Outside?!?!” Boo Berry questioned.
“Yes, outside. Come on, Dad is heading outside, and we can go with him.” I bolted to the kitchen door.
“Okay, if Dad is going, I will go.” Boo Berry jumped up and headed toward the kitchen door just as Dad made it there.
We dashed out. Whew. Made it. Dad didn’t like how we tangled into him and each other, but, oh well, what the heck, we got out!
“Head over to the west side of the yard, Boo. That’s where I heard ‘stuff’.” I dashed over to the west side of the yard.
“YES!” I stopped and smelled. “YES!”
“I can smell it too!” Boo exclaimed. “DEER! Wow! BABY DEER!
Too bad Mom and Dad can’t see these little creatures. I’ll bet they would like to see them.”
“Well, actually, I WOULD like to see them!” Boo Berry muttered to herself.
“What would you do if you did see them?” I asked Boo, Would you bark at them?”
“Ah, hum, aaaaahhhhhhhh, well, probably not.” Boo looked at me rather sheepishly.
“BUT I might, er, maybe, possibly could growl.”
“That would work. I think I would hide.”
“HIDE! I could hide! YES! I could hide…INSIDE!! Boo Berry made a dash for the back door.
Lucky Boo, Mom was just coming out.
Boo dashed right in behind Mom, and off they went to do whatever.
Me. Well, I have things to do and stuff to see.
Thanks for reading. See Ya around sometime.
TLC
Chapter Six
That last Chapter scared the liver, kidneys, and heart right out of me, so I’m leaving Owls behind and moving to GRASSHOPPERS!!!
Yumm!
I love to chase, play, and eat GRASSHOPPERS!
I was out there in the road of the farmhouse playing with a BIG, Huge, wing-flapping, grasshopper yesterday.
Tossing it here and there.
I tore off a wing first thing. Ya, see if you don’t, they can fly fast and hard out of the way.
So here I am—tossing and pouncing on a big, big grasshopper when Boo Berry comes over to see what I’m doing.
She didn’t say a word to me. Just watched. She watched everything I did.
She watched everything the grasshopper did.
I tossed the grasshopper in the air. I ran after the grasshopper. I threw the grasshopper here and there.
After I got tired of the whole ‘play with a grasshopper thing,’ I sat down and ate it all gone.
Yep. BRUPPPP! ALL GONE!
I was licking my face clean when I saw Boo Berry in the tall grass by the corn field.
Then Boo Berry POUNCED on something.
With a smile on her face and a BIG WINGED GRASSHOPPER in her mouth, she came over to me and dropped the bug.
“Here is another one,” she proudly said.
“It’s yours”, I replied, “Go for it!”
“Really?” Boo Berry asked. “Mine?”
“Yep. Do with it as you want.”
Dad walked out of the house about that time, talking to Mo,m who was in one of her flower gardens, weeding.
Boo Berry looked at Dad, then looked at Mom….she picked up the grasshopper and dashed into the middle of the road by the car port and —- tore off a wing!
Well done, I thought.
Then Boo Berry left the grasshopper and ran to Mom as fast as she could with a giant doggie smile on her face. Mom told her she was a good dog…the bug was hers, good girl. Boo turned and ran to Dad to reach down and pet her, but before she even finished all the pets, she was back with the grasshopper.
She tossed it up in the air.
She flung it way over there and then pounced on it again.
She flung it up and down and every which way.
Then she took it to the grass—just like I did.
After one more fling. She pounced and ate it right up!
Now, how is that, for a Very Good DOG! Boo Berry even sang a song about the whole experience!
Good Dog!!
Oh, by the way! Never! Ever! Try to eat a Hummingbird moth! THEY TASTE NASTY!!!
TLC