Scruffy The Legend

Those of you who have read my book, may recall that I always lamented the fact that, because of a shared driveway on one side of the property, I could not fence my yard. This had always meant that Scruffy (and his predecessor, Major) had to always be on a tether of some sort. There is a whole subchapter in the book (Freedom Day) devoted to describing Scruffy’s first day of total free running in a large field at my daughter’s farm. I must have grown much more intelligent recently. After adopting Ruby, I realized that my whole yard did not have to be fenced. Why not just make a dog run by fencing one area of the yard? So we did this for Ruby. I think its maybe 30’ by 40’. I keep wondering why I never thought of this in the days of Major and of Scruffy. Ruby and Charlie love this yard and run around chasing each other in amazingly fast circles. The back house door exits into this yard, so the dogs can now be let out without having to take them out first on a leash. If you look at the previous post’s pictures, you will see the dogs playing in the yard. The young man in the picture is Jeremy. He is now 23 years old. He was about 13 in the picture in the book (seated with Scruffy and The Kitty in front of a Christmas tree). I know those of you who haven’t read the book (yet) assumed that the man in the yard was a picture of me. No, look at the old man with Scruffy on his lap on the back cover picture of the book, mentally add 10 years to it and that might be what I look like.

Some of you may notice that this is the first post to this blog that I am writing. All previous posts were written by Karen, writing in the third person to make it seem like it was me talking.

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