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