As the amazing title indicates, this fantastic article may be, “surprising, or not!”
I plan to have a couple photos and they should tell the entire story, but as usual, for that one reader, I will elaborate. In the first photo we are harkening back a few days (6/12/2017) to my article, “Skinny dipping”. In the photo below we see the hero of this story in the Grand kid’s swimming pool. His dutiful spouse of 48 years is the photographer. As you can see she is well accomplished in composing a photo for this Blog Posting. I am sure you will want to click on the photo in an effort to reveal more of this subject.
We see in the back ground pink and yellow floaters, which were used later. Our hero is smiling at the camera and you the viewing public can make of the photo as you see fit. I think the main question would be, what the photographer was wearing at the time of the photo.
Now we will change the subject. “Who said thank goodness?”
The Ford Homestead has a new tenant, his name may be, “Tres”, which is Spanish for three. He is the third German Shepheard to have occupied the Ford Homestead. The first was Texas, then Tejas, and since we did not have a third name for the Great State, we have kind of settled on Tres.
As with many new family members, the present members were concerned that the new member might be noisy and messy. So far so good. He has not yet relieved himself on any surface in the Homestead as we frequently take him outside for some grass time (not the type you smoke).
He has a tendency to follow his humans anywhere they go.
We were concerned that another member of the Ford Homestead, “Charlie”, might not accept the new fellow. We were wrong. So far you would think the Tres was a little brother to Charlie. Tres has followed Charlie around in the yard just like little brothers do.
Molly on the other hand is a different story. She has been staying out of sight and has not yet said hello to the new fellow. Molly was a kitten when she came to us and she would attack Tejas relentlessly. He was a full grown shepherd and he put up with her childish ways.
We have a neighbor who was a drug enforcement officer and he came over to see Tres. He picked Tres up and was petting him. We thought we were going to have to fight him for Tres. This same person a few years ago, stopped in front of our house and opened his door and Tejas got in the car with him. He took Tejas home but later brought him back.
We have noticed that our new family member, enjoys chewing on everything. In the above photo he has a toy in his mouth. Yes I know the photo isn’t very good, I will try to do better in the future.
This new member of the Ford Homestead was originally slated to stay in the office area his first night. We later decided to have him stay in the bathroom. We put a screen across the door so he could not get out and we placed a couple articles of our clothing on the floor with a pair of shoes. To our surprise, he did not make any sounds all night, and he did not deposit any foreign matter on the floor. He did his business Sunday morning like a good resident, outside near the back of the yard!
We do have one concern and that is, Tres is continually under foot. We have to watch were we walk as he is often in the way.
Before we get the question, he is not a Father’s day gift. He is just a new member of the family!
We welcome Tres, the third, at the Ford Homestead!
Don Ford
FYI, the hero had his swimming suit on, that was an extra pair of shorts hanging on the pool!
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