TonTon saves the Baby Bobby Blanc

The only real herding that we have seen lately  on the farm is Kupa herding the guineas. Watch this sequence. This goes on for ages sometimes, He will walk around and around them keeping them in one place....or moving them across the field and then back. Kupa was disconcerted yesterday because one of the guineas is on the wrong side of the fence and he cannot get him back into the group.

Break away! And then he started all over again. You get the idea!  I am thinking of training him to work sheep! Or maybe cats. 

Usually that is all the herding we ever see. But I was digging potatoes for dinner yesterday when TonTon came barreling around the house at top speed and ran right past me. Just roared past. No ball in his mouth. No begging to play. Hmm, I thought that is weird, then went back to digging up a dinners worth of my pitiful harvest of potatoes.

Around he  came again, galloping at high speed, his tongue hanging out, this time he ran up, leapt past and appeared to pause in midair, catching my eye, feet peddling road runner style then hit the ground again  and kept on running around the house and back out of sight.

Weird, I thought again and taking the basket of potatoes, went over to the frog garden to pull some beets for a salad.

I gathered enough beetroot then cut some greens and wandered with my basket around the front of the house, the dog galloped  past me again and I watched him shoot at top speed from me straight to the open barn doors.

This time I had a clear view of the front of the barn.  As Ton ran towards the doors out popped the Baby Bobby. He must have opened his interior gate and was wandering in and out of barn on the House Side. Bobby danced on his long legs out into the yard, saw the dog running at him, turned and high tailed it back inside. Ton braked, raising a cloud of dust, turned and ran back to me, around me and then ran back WITH me, as the Baby Bobby popped out again like a giant jack ‘n’ a box, to startle again at the sight of the dog and run back in again.   I shut the Bobby into his side of the barn and double latched his gate. How long have you guys been doing that?, I asked Ton as he threw himself with relief onto the ground, his tongue in the dust. Good dog. TonTon may not be the best herder of sheep, but he does like everything to be in its proper place!

Good morning. Poor TonTon, he was desperately trying to get my attention, as well as stop the naughty calf from getting out onto the drive and into the bean fields! And I was ignoring him. Bad miss c.

The internet spat the dummy this morning so I had to call the nice man and he helped me reboot it.  However I am very late at posting.  I am so sorry.  Now wea re all at sixes and sevens. The upside is that while waiting for the internet office to open I got piles of yard work and mowing done. So here it is 9am and I am quite delightfully ahead of myself!!

Oh and yesterday there was only the briefest of showers, someone dragged my rain cloud away to their farm!!  But we did get some lovely puffy vacuous girly clouds! No strings on these baby clouds.

Have a lovely day.

celi

What happened on this day a year ago. Well nothing at all evidently! A nice quiet day here too. With some discussion about my plans for the blog.