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Bossy Bessie-Boo is growing. She’s bigger and stronger and has made her way
into our hearts, despite the fact that she’s quite mischievous. With dancing
eyes, she’ll steal shoes, socks, caps, yard ornaments, green tomatoes –
anything that takes her fancy. She seems convinced that the world was created
just for her. 
Mike considered putting a geocache in a tree at the bottom of our lane and took the dogs and me along to help him investigate. His plan was to toss a rope weighted with a small chunk of wood over the limb of a pine tree. He would then tie the rope and use it to swing into the tree and place the cache. Bess loved
every minute of the trial and error procedure. We could hardly keep her out of the way.
"This is great! Can I help?" she seemed to say.
"What are you going to do now, Mike?" Bess wanted to know.
Older but wiser
Nellie planted herself at my side and leaned. “I don’t like it," she
said. “No way is this a good idea.” I agreed
with her.
"Whoa! Look at you swing on that rope! Can I be next?" Bess asked.
Eventually we humans saw the wisdom of Nellie's advice and the idea of placing a cache in that tree was abandoned. KW
3 comments:
Whew! Glad no one has to climb the tree to get the cache! Or, maybe some people would *like* to do that?! Glad Nellie was there to be the voice of wisdom.
I'm quite surprised that you considered a geocache that would attract strangers to venture so close to your home. I guess maybe you're looking to make new friends?
The plan was really a special adventure for old friends. But, strangers venturing in was one of Nellie's concerns.
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