Early Spring Flowers

We have some flowers coming up out here on the farm. They are not the kind I like to eat. some of them have a very strong smell to them. I have told my horse he needs to make sure he doesn't bump up against them when he is grazing on the beautiful green grass. That is not a smell you want to get on your nose if you don't know how to stick your nose in the water and shake it around. Heard the humans talking about them the other day. One of them said they are called Paper White's and the other one said some fancy name that didn't sound like anything I have ever heard before. But it doesn't matter what they are called as long as you know those pretty little white flowers are to be given a wide berth. I was telling my horse the other day that sometimes those flowers will even poke their heads up out of snow. Not that we get a lot of snow out here East Texas. Told him also that the next flowers that come up will be the daffodils. We don't eat those either they are just for looking at. Sometimes there are a lot of them that come up but this winter has been pretty dry from the looks of my pond so there may not be that many come up this year.

Oh yes my pond is nearing the mud puddle stage of rolling in it readiness. I might not be doing that though if what I heard is true that it is going to be winter time again later this week. I think it is supposed to be real cold again in three moons. That's how I tell time. Sun, moon, sun, moon. When the sun comes up it's time to eat. When the sun goes down we, me and my horse, are on our own out here. We have a lot of fun sometimes at night when no one is around. Right before dawn and right after the sun goes down there are sometimes fairy's that come out and dance for us. They are quite beautiful with their yellow tiara's.

Our human girl played a trick on us today. I went to the front of the house and banged on the thing that makes noise to tell her that I wanted her to come out and give me something to eat. I made noise two different times. The second time she came out telling me 'backup back up back up'. I thought she meant it since she said it three times so I did back up. She started towards the barn telling me and my horse to just mind our p's and q's that that was no way to be acting. She said that there must be something wrong with our clocks because it was only a few minutes after four o'clock not four thirty. She told us to go out there in that pasture. The way she was pointing we decided it would be a good idea for us to do just that. She went around the barn so my horse thought she was going to come out that side door with him some food. That boy still has a lot to learn. She came out, but she came out with a brush and other stuff. We did not get feed. We got brushed and toes painted and then she went back in the house leaving us standing in our pasture to 'Think About IT'. That's what she said she said 'Think About IT'. I'm not completely sure what we were supposed to think about but I didn't go back over to the house and bang on that thing I'll tell you that. A few minutes later, which must have been four thirty whatever that means, she came back out and gave us our cup of feed.