Morning light at Badger Mountain Camp, Ephraim, Utah

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The aspens are aglow

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Wildflowers all over

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Cheery faces along our path

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Watch where you step!

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A forest road leads us onward

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Our first three nights on the mountain it rains, just enough to freshen.

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Coneflowers in abundance

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If any trees could fall in love, it would be the aspens

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Thank heaven for blue sky

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I love Badger Mountain!

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Okay, enough of this sappy stuff.

I have to tell you what happened this morning.

The three of us are inside the Best Little Trailer.  Bridget and Reggie are snoozing.  I’m online.

Suddenly there’s a bumping at the door!

What the heck is THAT?  As I jump up I see our visitors out the window.

“Cows!”

I open the screen door to shoo them away.  One is right by the door.  In fact the critter is slobbering all over it.  I don’t give Reggie a thought . . . .

And out the door he goes!

“Reggie!  Come baaaack!”

The herd of cows, about five or six of them, take off in a thunder of hooves with Reggie barking behind them.  I grab my camera, lean out the door, and take this photo.

Reggie is off to the right (in the above photo) in determined pursuit.  Cattle and Reggie disappear down the forest road.  Reggie’s bark grows fainter.

At least he’s familiar with the road.  We’ve been that way several times.  I’d like to chase after him but that will make him run all the more.  It’s best if I wait. 

I leave the door open and I wait and I wait. 

He’s still barking.  I wait some more.

Then Reggie flies into the BLT, pounces at my knees, makes a banked turn, and shoots out the door again.  I look out the window and there he is, running around with glee.  That little rascal.  He’s having a great ol’ time.  Bless his heart. . . .  Well, he can’t run forever.

When Reggie decides he’s had enough, in he comes, all excited, panting and wagging his tail.

“Hello, Reggie Man!  What a good boy you are!  You got rid of the monsters!”

He jumps into my lap and I pet his squirming body. 

“You know what?  You deserve a treat!”

I pull two treats out of the treat bag. Reggie’s tail continues on high speed.  Bridget perks up, wondering what all the excitement is about.

“You deserve one, too, honey, for never running off and giving me a fright!”

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NOTE:  Several comments with questions and answers came in under the previous post immediately prior to this post being published.  Do take a look.  The comments section was a-jumpin’!

CANINE CORNER:  “Do Clothes Make The Man?” by Bridget and Reggie

“Reggie!  My oh my, I do like that blue suit on you!”

“Oh.  Thanks, Miss B.”

“What’s the matter?  Don’t you like it?”

“It makes me look like a . . .  a girl.”

“No, it doesn’t.  You look like a cowboy with a red bandana.”

“I don’t wanna’  look like a cowboy with a red banana!”

 

“BanDANa.  Look, little guy.  What you wear doesn’t make you any more or any less than who you really are.”

“Well, who am I then, Miss B?  Really.  And don’t say I’m LITTLE!”

“You can be anything you want to be, Reg.  Today you were nine pounds of courage.  That was very brave of you to chase the herd of cattle down the forest road.”

 

“Yeah?  You think so?  I was protectin’ you and RVSue!  I made those ol’ poopy cows scram!  They’ll think twice before comin’ ’round our door again!  Hee-Yah!!!”

“See, Reggie?  You were a great cowboy and you weren’t even wearing your blue suit at the time . . . .”

 

“Then can I take it off now?  Pleeeeeze?”

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