Jake and I took a walk up to the mailbox and back yesterday and it was beautiful outside. The temperature was just perfect ... with the sun on my skin I could just barely feel the breeze. Our neighbor to the north has 3 geese in his yard already. There is an obvious pair and then this lone fellow hanging around the edge. Tracey says he is a geek goose and probably can’t get his own girl. There is something sad about watching the poor fellow waddle along behind the other two, always staying about 20 yards from them. They were all three honking and carrying on about Jake walking up the road, as if Jake could care about a bunch of silly gooses. Jake tried to rip my arm off by chasing after a squirrel though. I just managed to hang on to the leash but it was near thing. He’s getting old but he still has some surprises in him. I would never have thought he had the energy to chase a squirrel but maybe that is ageless for a dog. I think it is hard wired. See a squirrel — chase it! It appears most of the birds are already back. We saw some tree swallows and blue birds checking out the new bird boxes Tracey put up and a barn swallow swooping in and out of our garage. I need to make sure the boys start closing that garage door or we will have swallows nesting in there making a mess of things. Bluejays, robins ... all the usual suspects except I haven’t seen a humming bird yet. There was even a red tailed hawk cruising the Dillon Creek looking for lunch. I haven’t seen any yet but Tracey says the herons are back too, that she had seen one landing in the creek across from the pasture. Spring is here and it’s getting to be a busy place again. We will know for sure when the latest crop of pesky little raccoons start marauding about, getting into everything with their delinquent attitudes. It will start with them peeking into the sunroom or the kitchen slider and making Jake bark and snarl. He just hates when they do that!
Our dog, Jack, prefers to chase rabbits. He actually caught a baby bunny two Easters ago, right in front of my little nieces, and was carrying it around in his mouth. Unfortunately he’s a fast little guy so all the adults were running around trying to catch him before the girls were traumatized...
Jennifer 08 Apr 2008, 09:47 a.m.
Fortunately our Jake has never caught anything. We mostly keep him on a leash or his nose would get him into trouble. He will catch the scent of something and snuffle after the trail where ever it may go if we don’t pull him on back home. He traumatizes us by rolling in goose poop or all over a dead snake or anything that smells ghastly!
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