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Ricky's Ramblings

Joe Ed

When I wrote ya’ll last month I said I was going to tell you about Joe Ed’s Dawg. Now, I know that it is spelled dog, but Joe Ed pronounces it dawg. He ain’t nearly as refined as I am.

Joe Ed came by the house last fall and was just dying to go quail huntin’. He had a new dawg that he was sooooooo proud of and just knew that he had himself a bonafide bird dawg! Joe Ed told me that it was “pedigreed” on one side; its daddy is a neighbor’s registered retriever that got to a mongrel that had wandered onto his place last year and adopted his kids. Joe Ed said to never mind that his dawg takes after its mother and may possibly be the ugliest dawg anyone has ever laid eyes on because he was certain that since it got its mothers looks, then that means it must have inherited its father’s “huntin’ blood”.

Now, Joe Ed may be able to claim to have the ‘ugliest” huntin’ dawg alive, believe you me, thanks to Little Darlin’, I have the fattest!! About five years ago, our Mastiff, Ali, decided that he would not eat ‘dog’ food anymore, so Little Darlin’ commenced to cooking for the dogs every night (heart, kidney, liver). Result, my full-blooded, registered Lab, Tiny, looks and acts like a big black bear preparing to hibernate. But, don’t call him fat in front of Little Darlin’, she’ll politely correct you, he’s just “big boned”.

Anyway, back to the hunting story….after walking the field for about ten minutes several birds flew up, I shot, Tiny retrieved my bird, dropped it at my feet and headed for the truck, Joe Ed shot, but had to fetch his own bird, his dawg spooked and beat mine back to the truck, ending our short lived hunting trip.

Now, I am sure you are wondering what is behind this story. Well, I’ll explain. Last week Joe Ed and his dawg came by the house and said that he had found some sorghum sudan cheaper than our BMR 6. I asked him if it was a BMR 6. He said that the salesman told him that it was on one side. Now that brings us back to Joe Ed’s dawg, pedigreed on one side did not make it a hunter.

Therefore, the moral to this story is there may be cheaper products on the market but if you want the best look for the Advanta BMR 6 on the tag.

Well I best stop for now. Next month I will tell you about Precious, Little Darlin’s goat.

P.S. Joe Ed’s dawg showed that he may be interested in birds after all, unfortunately, it was one of Little Darlin’s chickens, Mr. Pudge, who gave him a lesson in where he should not stick his nose.

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