Ol d dogs......

“Old dogs ‘n children ‘n watermelon wine...” Tom T. Hall


The winter sun pops out now ‘n then like a promise, y’know.....like teasing.....Californians tend to pout if they don’t get sunned on a regular basis....feels like the world is picking on us...which it does from time t’time..
Thank God for the occasional Minnesota which takes us out of the spotlite occasionally.....First it was Jesse Ventura, now it’s Al Franken.....who’s next.....Andy Dick? Watching some other State mooning the world for a change is refreshing.....mostly, howsomever, (just threw that in for Kellye) I’m reduced to getting my kicks watching my dogs interact with the squirrels ‘n the chickens....well, that ‘n Fox news.......
T’ween the squirrels ‘n the chickens, I don’t know which one affects the dogs more tho’ I suspect that chickens are stupid ‘n squirrels are smart....well, smarter than chickens anyway...the chickens just kind’a wander thru ‘n always seem surprised that the dogs want’a chase ‘em but the squirrels, the squirrels tease the dogs ‘n I know they do it on purpose.....well, it’s bad luck when they tease Kellye’s dog, Buddy...I’ve seen Buddy go at least 8 or 9 feet up a tree after a squirrel ‘n he’s caught two or three of ‘em ‘n he’s dreadfully hard on ‘em....
Rusty ‘n Willie are a different story altogether....they ain’t got a chance with the squirrels ‘n the squirrels know it ‘n they’re unmerciful......
I got grey squirrels in the back yard ‘n red squirrels in the front ‘n they don’t seem to mix.....I guess you c’d say they’re segregated....’n I don’t know why...they look the same ‘cept for the color....’n they act the same.....you’d think there’d be some miscegenation...ya gotta wonder what color their offspring ‘ud be.....not too far from here, a half-mile or so, there’s a colony of black squirrels....they don’t seem to mix with the reds or the greys either.....t’is a puzzlement.....well, it’s a puzzlement in the wee hours when a body can’t sleep ‘n the tho’t processes are firing out of sync.....