Rufus' Rants

I’ve been pretty doggone busy the past few months so please pardon my lack of blog posts.  Besides my usual duties of keeping things in order around the house, I’ve been helping Pop up at Rocky Creek.  He’s usually on the tractor moving dirt, rocks and such while I supervise and show him where to scoop and dump.

This has been a very interesting week.  On Tuesday Pop was doing his usual evening routine, plopped in his easy chair and watching the news, all the while tossing my ball and keeping me happy fetching which ever one I decided to drop … continue reading »

Me ‘n Pop, we’re teammates.  He’ll chunk a stick and I’ll go fetch it.  We both make sure that Lula Belle and the missus are protected and safe.  We do lotsa stuff together as a team.

Pop was talkin’ the other day about how he’s been on a bunch of teams – sports teams, work teams and even how our family is a team.  He said that although it’s only right that individuals get singled out from teams to be honored for doin’ something really good, that don’t change the fact that most of the time those individuals got that honor … continue reading »

Down here in the south, May is traditionally the month in which, “decoration day” is observed.  It all got started after the Civil War.  There were so many confederate soldiers buried that their families began meeting annually to maintain the grave sites and cemeteries.  Eventually, the commemoration evolved into to what we now recognize nationally as Memorial Day.

Pop said that when he was little, they would gather at Crane Hill where the men would trim around headstones and spruce up the plots while the women were busy spreading out food for “dinner (lunch for you non-southerners) on the grounds”.  After … continue reading »

Last Thursday was Valentine’s Day.  Pop bought cards for the missus from him, me and Lula Belle and she got one for him.  I understand the Christmas gift giving thing now but, seein’ as how this is my first one of these Valentimes, I ain’t quite figured out what’s up with this holiday.

Pop could tell I was kinda confused (must be the way I tilt my head to the side) when he was explainin’ it all to me.  He said that folks have kinda latched onto this time as an opportunity to show their significant other how much they mean … continue reading »

Okey dokey.  You read the title and figured, “What in the world is that pup talkin’ ’bout now?”  Well, I ain’t got a clue.  Every once in a while I figure I can learn more by keepin’ my eyes and ears open than flappin’ my yap or peckin’ on the keyboard.  So, ol’ Pop got to waxin’ eloquent (his words, not mine) the other day about gettin’ older and the inevitability of change.  Shoot, I’m still lookin’ forward to my first birthday this month so I don’t know a whole heckuva lot about change!  That bein’ the case, I’m lettin’ … continue reading »