Spring fever!!!

Look at the GRASS!! I think I have mowed five times already. The ground hogs are busy, which means the Japanese Knotweed crunches under their busy feet as they scurry back and forth filling up on fresh, spring greens. Why is that worth mentioning? Because it gets the horses all worked up!! The horses, all 900-1200lbs of them, get all worried about a scurrying little ground hog. WHAT THE????? Then, once they get going I think Jewel is feeling so good lately she gets so full of herself. She forgets the ground hog and just enjoys a good RACE!!!
Spur can not contain himself..............He joins in.........thankfully, in the safety of his yard...........

What's he sayin'?..........
The herding blood runs deep. He may be a Paussie, but the aussie herding blood is deep.............would a papillon do this?...........

Those words are probably not nice words?...............

Roscoe has no interest in herding, but he comes running to see what the commotion is about. Who knows, there may be cookies being passed out...........
Love the feet completely off the ground. Wish the Honeysuckle bush wasn't in the way.........Where's that ground hog???........
Poor Precious hasn't a clue what all the commotion is about. She's just running because Jewel is. She'd rather be eating, but she is a "follower". There isn't a take charge bone in her body. She does what the group does and if it means run.........well.......darn it, she runs.........Jewel - "Hey, watchalookinat????"Notice the flared nostrils? She snorts and blows and lets the world know she is there, protecting her pasture from the Horrible Hogs. How much can a ground hog eat? More than Jewel is happy about!! The Horrible Hogs take over and she doesn't like it. She doesn't like the noise they make, she doesn't like the strange way they waddle their fat bodies back to their holes. I mean, really, Horrible Hogs don't move well. They are not exactly fluid in motion. Not like Jewel!

The Maxwell's don't call them ground hogs. They are Woodchucks. And you don't say that word in the presence of George, the border terrier. Nope, you can't even spell woodchuck. Ground hog? George doesn't know because the Maxwell's don't call them hogs. They are chucks. Chucks take over George's word. Hogs take over Jewel's world. It's all the same, only different.

Maybe we should start calling them Wood Hogs, or Ground Chucks? Hog Wood. Hog Chucks?

You know we also have Wood Cocks around here that I also call Timberdoodles. Just sayin'...................