Funny sight today…took 3 horses to get them shod by the son-on-law of a vet. Very good shoer. He has a youngster that’s in 2nd grade (I think). School bus drops him off at the clinic. He goes in to see na-ma. Na-ma comes out to let Bart know that Gus wants to go play with the rest of the family up at the house and that ‘playing with the flu cousins’ is out of the question. Dad (Bart) tells Gus, you go put your jeans and boots on and go look for eggs. Gus looks around for awhile and finds 8 eggs in 4 locations.
Next sighting of Gus is he’s trailing a chicken that is going through the alley at high speed and Gus is trying to rope the chicken. Next sighting of Gus is he’s in the rafters of the barn crawling with his rope to sneak up on the cat who is on the 3rd or top row of a big round bale stack. The cat is watching all this and knows exactly what is up. So as Gus gets to the bale the cat is on, the cat hops to the next bale and looks over the edge so that Gus can see that he is getting close to the cat…he’s just at the next bale over. The cat lays down to clean his paws, legs and takes a peek to see if Gus is near. Not near yet, so the cat lays down again and flicks his tail…just waiting on Gus. Gus is now at the bale the cat is on. The cat hears Gus and gets up to look over the edge of the bale. Cat is looking at Gus. Gus is lengthening his loop and tosses it up over the bale. It’s on the cat, the cat hops out of the loop and takes his paw and flips the loop back at Gus. Gus is trying really hard to ‘rope’ the cat. The cat is trying real hard to not ‘laugh’. This goes on for about 10 minutes and finally the cat looks at Gus and then leaps back to the bale where the game started. Gus is done with the cat playing him and doesn’t even satisfy the cat by going after him. The cat looks over the bale and sees that Gus is leaving. Looking kinda satisfied, the cat scratches the bale and curls up to take a nap.
The other funny part to this story were the faces of the young horses that were tied in the stalls below all the rafter action. You should have seen their faces while they watched the roping action. (Now I know that many people can read this and think OMG they let that boy do what. Well, be assured watching this little guy go gather his hens eggs, then try to rope his chickens and then practice roping his cat is a lot more rewarding of a life than sitting in front of a screen and playing some odd, unfulfilling game.)
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