Yesterday morning I woke up to what sounded like machine gun fire in the house. It turned out to be Tom shelling some dried corn into an old coffee can so that he could put it out to lure the turkeys back. (This is what happens when you retire early...)Helen and Jay dropped off Buddy the Dog yesterday as planned. He will stay with us for the weekend, and they will pick him up on their way back to Minnesober. Tom noted that as soon as he got here, Buddy the Dog did what he does best -- sat down and began to shed.
This morning about a dozen turkeys came stalking through the backyard, lured by the corn or not, and eventually Buddy the Dog noticed them. He barked loudly at the deck door in his role as Protector of the Lodge, but they pretty much ignored him. What seems to get them going is noticing shadows or any movement. When I came over to see if he had scared them off, they poked their heads up and high-tail-feathered it for the woods.
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I don't know if Ted remembers Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog. It was a cartoon on the old Captain Kangaroo show on CBS. We didn't get the CBS channel (I think it was Channel 11 out of Houston), but Buddy and Florence did. So occasionally when we were over there in the morning, we got to see the cartoon. Amazingly dumb, but for some reason it appealed to me. (No need to say what you're thinking!)
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