of gas has sharply curtailed my pre-season exercises this year.....at least the ones that require me to do any driving.
Fortunately, the pasture rabbit has been cooperating.
Since I had some family duties last Saturday, and Brag hadn't got with me, I figured if the girls (and Sammie) were going to get any exercise, I would have to just turn them out of the pen. Besides, I was tired of aerating the pasture anyway.

After all the bragging I've been doing about the pups, especially Sammie, it figures that they would act like pups and take the day off.
Samuel P Thumbsucker


was a thumbsucker from the word "getgo" with Sally


and Sissy quitting about 15 minutes later.


I was sitting on 2's new pontoon boat, named the "Why" watching the girls as they tried to find the rabbit they could smell along the edge of the thick undergrowth below the pond. I looked over and saw a set of ears in the grass rotating like radar dishes next to the fence line above the girls and parallel to me, only fifty yards from the pen. I started calling for the dogs and the rabbit took off. Kate spotted it as it hit the bushes and the chase was on.

Sammie got blocked by an exceptionally thick patch of briars and said the heck with it and came back to set at my feet. Sally and Sissy stayed with the "Girls" for a short period of time before coming back,
Lucy, Kate and Penny burned up that rabbit in a thicket just over my property line for a good hour and a half before losing the scent. Since it was lunch time and the heat of the day, they came back to the pen somewhat reluctantly, but come back they did