I headed up to the kids farm with Dale this Saturday evening. I had Mabel, Ruby, acaged coon and a caged squirrel. I figured this would be an easy night. Wrong!
I let the squirrel go in the yard and let Ruby and Pearl go. They looked for it for a little while but soon they lost interest & started playing. We caught them up and started with the coon. I wanted to check & see what stage the pups were at so I did things a little differently. I let the coon go & didn't let the pups see. I let the pups go a little later and then put Mabel in behind them. OOPs, Mabel was all wound up and just raced into the swamp and took the pups with her. She finally lost them & they came back after 5 or 10 minutes. By the the coon was long gone & they are too inexperienced to work this out. We waited for a few minutes & then I told the kids they might as well go home. Dale and I drove around and I could hear Mabel treeing. I left for the tree at 9:30 and made it back to the truck at 11:30. One of worst times in that swamp I've had so far. I lost my bearings and ended up in some real mud. Ended up backtracking & swinging west to get out of the mud. I'm tired today. Adding insult to injury, I saw a whole family of coons on the drive home. They were right on the edge of the cornfield where I was going to drop after the caged coon. Darn! Oh well, they'll still be there next weekend.
Posted by bruceo at September 21, 2003 01:47 AM