The Friendly Farmer and the Lil’ Terror

Just a simple story from my daily walks out and about my village.

A while back in an earlier blog (Getting the Shot and Meeting the Locals), I told you a story about meeting people while out on my wanders.  In that story I mentioned a farmer who found my sun hood for my wide angle lens.  I mentioned in passing I had lost it out in the endless fields that surround my town.  Then, months later I ran into the man and his dog in the fields and he told me he had found the piece to my camera.

Well, this tale isn’t so much about this man…as his Lil’ Terror Jack Russell Terrier.  This little bugger seems to have radar for Clover and I.  True to the breed he seems to ALWAYS  be up to something on the farm.  If you hear the geese angrily squawking….you can bet that dog is chasing them around their pen.  He is adorable and friendly but on more than one occasion I have seen it take up to 4 farmers to get him to return to the farm.
One day last winter, now that I think of it, this was actually my introduction to the farmer, I was passing by the farm snapping away with my camera.  Like lighting this little white Terrier raced up to Clover and before I had a chance to get him back on his leash….they were off.  Round and round they went, through the barn and up the stairs into the open front door of the farm house.  You can imagine my shock!  How the heck was I going to get my dog back. I stood there mouth open when my cries for his return when unanswered.
Sauntering up to me came the farmer.  I giggled in embarrassment and gestured at the house.  He said…where did they go?  I answered laughing….”if I know my dog, I would check your bed or the kitchen”.  At that moment there was a holler inside the house and with the swoosh of a broom out came the 2 little invaders.

This morning’s walk was no different.  I was quicker when I recognized his little streak of white coming across the fields with the poor farm peddling his bike in tow, and I got Clover secured.   I also got up the courage to ask if I might capture a photo of the two who have now become a part of our daily life here.