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| Heading to the west end of the dirt road. |
On Monday morning the dog and I walked to the west end of the dirt road. The temperature was comfortable at 50 degrees and the humidity was OK at 86 percent. The clouds were hanging low and dark to the southwest over the Gulf perhaps indicating bad weather later in the day. Our Thanksgiving day is approaching on this Thursday and the weather bureau is predicting sub freezing temperatures to start the day.
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| What was in there? |
As we walked along toward the west end I saw the dog showing some interest in a trio of holes in an embankment there. He has rarely wanted to look in these holes before so I assume there has been some small animal activity in them. The holes were likely made by field rats as they are too small and too inaccessible for most other animals. They probably don't make good burrows because they pour water during heavy rain storms.
We continued to amble along to the end of the road and turned to head home. On the way back a neighbor's pit bull that usually is in a fence came out and gave me and his owner quite a start. My dog is amenable to most dogs and will not fight unless provoked. The pit bull chased after my dog who only wanted to go home. The pit bull was escorting my dog out of his territory and his owner and I had a tough time getting the pit and my dog to return. When they returned and were near us it looked like the pit was going to attack my dog but his owner pulled his belt off to use as a leash and the pit ran back inside the fence.
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I walked past a thousand times without
noticing this was even here. |
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| The offending limb is dead now but the damage is done. |
Disaster averted we walked on back to the house and noticed one other item. It seems two trees have grown together in a strange way near my house and I have never noticed them. A limb from one tree rubbed against the trunk of another until it caused it's bark to grow over the limb. The limb has now died but the damage is done and will remain as long as the tree is alive. Very strange. Thanks for reading my blog today. Bye.
