I just came back from a trip to the other side of the big river. I traveled for hours to see my human grandparents and wish my grandpapa a happy birthday. It was such a long trip and the sun shone brightly on my seat and I tried to sit in my Person's shady lap and the only other shady place in the car had a birthday cake sitting in it. So it was a little bit of a hard trip for this little red dog, but getting there made it all worth while. (As did the french fries my Person shared with me on the road.)
My human grandparents have a flowery yard with lots of bees and wrens and hummingbirds and rabbits and I was happy to sit and watch all the activity of all those creatures. And I was much fussed over and my grandpapa bought ME a present, a wonderful and large chewy bone. I buried it swiftly under the lilac tree. And guess what? My Person dug it up! I will have to watch her like a hawk because this might be a clue as to what she does all day when I am in the backyard dozing and chasing squirrels. She says she's working but she probably is working on my chew toys.
On our way back home we stopped to see something fantastic and that is what you see in the picture. It is the rare and shy whooping crane! This bird is much taller than I am and lives an amazing life, flying from its summer home in the North Land all the way to Florida! The flock this bird belongs to was entirely wiped out by humans and a very small group of people have been working hard to bring these tall white birds back from the edge of extinction!! I was pretty happy to see this whooping crane and to wish it well.
Then I saw a deer and I forgot all about everything else, because I am a little red hunting dog at heart.
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