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Buddy Learns About the Water Faucet

It has been really hot around here. No rain to speak of. Mama, Granddaddy and Gran spend a lot of time watering plants and sweating. Little Guy and Sunshine spend as much time as they can in the house under the air conditioner vents.

Mama went out to water her strawberry plants. She has a little patch by the pasture gate. She babies them something fierce. Little Guy thinks she's still holding a grudge from when Granddaddy killed some of them a few weeks ago. He sprayed them with weed poison. About half of Mama's strawberry plants died. Granddaddy didn't do that to his strawberry plants.

Well, Buddy the bull was standing out at the gate waiting for a snack. Mama couldn't water the strawberries with him looking at her with those pitiful brown eyes. So she got him some feed and poured it over the fence and into his snack bowl.

Then Blackie the cow showed up. So Mama went back and got her some feed for her snack bowl. Little Guy could see the sweat starting to gather on Mama. He figured if another cow showed up for a snack, Mama was probably going to get a little upset. Thankfully, no one else stopped by.

Mama went on about her business of watering the strawberry plants. She went through the gate, turned on the faucet and started spraying the plants. Mama stays inside the pasture and walks up and down the fence line, making sure she gives all the plants on the other side of the fence plenty of water.

In the meantime, Buddy and Blackie finished their snacks. Blackie went on up to the cow watering trough to get a drink. Buddy walked over to Mama to see what she was doing. Little Guy knew Buddy just wanted to see if Mama would give him something else to eat.

Mama told Buddy she didn't have any more food. He didn't believe her. He tried to sniff the water nozzle. Mama sprayed cold water on his nose. Buddy shook his head. Some of the water went up his nose. Little Guy thought it was funny.

But Buddy liked the cold water. He came back for more. Mama sprayed the water and Buddy slurped it in with his tongue. So Mama would water the bull, then water her strawberries. Back and forth she went. Except when she finished watering the strawberries, the bull wasn't quite done. Mama wasn't having any of that.

She turned the water off and put the hose up. Then she started toward the gate. Buddy's butt was near about where she needed to shove the gate open. Mama looked at Buddy. Buddy looked at Mama.

"I don't think so," Mama said as she started for another gate. Buddy just looked all innocent but Little Guy saw what Mama saw. The minute Mama started out that gate, Buddy was going to pay her back for shutting off the water. He was going to lift his tale and crap all over Mama's shoes.

Little Guy smiled proudly as Mama joined him on the other side of the gate. His Mama wasn't anybody's fool -- especially when it comes to that big ol' bull!
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