FINALLY! An image of a rabbit in flight is captured. It’s very tough to get a decent one, even with a camera at the ready; you can’t predict when the race will begin or where it will go. The cottontail is on the run after Ernie flushed him out from his hutch under a tangle of vines. And generally, the
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After fifteen months of living together Ernie was bound to exhibit a dark side. This morning he snarled and took a stand that gave every indication he would bite me. Ernie: the world’s most appreciative and happy pooch? Since occasionally he startles and puts a rabbit to run I’ve often wondered what would happen if he actually caught one. Now I know.
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Beautiful spring-like weather has finally arrived in Fayetteville! Three days of sun and temperatures in the seventies have banished my cold weather procrastination and replaced it with sowing vegetable seeds. Looking at the tray in the image above isn’t very inspiring, I agree. But that is one of the great things about agriculture: a quiet sense of accomplishment. For example,
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Ernie the intrepid and I went out for the nightly walk. Bog-like conditions from leftover rain don’t faze him; visibility near zero, no problem. And throw in the scent of a rabbit, swoosh………. his twenty pounds stretch the leash as taut as a mooring line in a hurricane. If they put a rabbit in front of a railcar I think
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