Another American Adventure: Jubilee's socks

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Jubilee's socks

Jubilee has an itching problem, especially in Florida, so Eric and Dawn bought her some "socks". They do seem to work. And unlike the snow boots that I tried on her last winter, she doesn't "freeze" (refusing to move) in these socks. In fact, she carries on, chasing squirrels et al, as if there is nothing at all on her paws. Somehow, thought, the skid doesn't stay on the bottom of her paw but works its way around to the top!

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BarbaraDecember 28, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Jube and I have similar taste in socks. I always tell people I am a heterosoxual because I enjoy colourful socks.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.