Innocent!

The silence often of pure innocence

Persuades when speaking fails.

           William Shakespeare.

I am sitting here early this morning watching the sunrise bounce off the side of the barn and I smile. I love this window it provides me the beauty and serenity to keep me happy. I look over to the left and see the girls, they certainly look innocent now, slowing walking with their heads down, snatching up bits of grass in their cutting teeth. The other night in the dark was a very different story.

I was at my Mom’s for supper and I left later in the evening, it is getting dark earlier these days so the sun was gone and the darkness was starting to creep in. I pulled out of her driveway and headed home, My Hero close behind. He always pulls out after me which I love because if there are any problems on the road I know he will be there.

I was driving down our nice gravel road and admiring the line of shadows cast on the cedars. Since it had been a long day I was a little tired and all I was thinking of was putting my feet up and sitting with a nice cup of tea. I would get home just before My Hero (I may drive faster), I would put the kettle on and we could both relax and watch some TV unless one or both of us was to fall asleep, this seems to happen a lot, sometimes my tea is there when I wake up.

I was just starting to drive past my neighbour’s barnyard when I see shadows, at first I thought they were white-tailed deer as they are very busy this time of year and there is an apple tree in the barnyard. There sure did seem to be a lot of them so I turned my headlights to face those shadows. Darn this is not what I like to see.

It appears that the girls were not happy with the grass on the one side of the fence so they were now in the barnyard that I must say we were going to let them into this weekend. We were just a little worried about the wire fence being low on the road side and were going to fix it. They apparently did not care and pulled themselves up to the buffet table without an invitation from us. I then started to wonder how they got into the barnyard and worried they may be in the neighbours garden or heaven forbid behind their house peeking in the windows. Oh I wished I had a flashlight. My Dad had I always taught us to carry one for emergencies and this could possibly be one of those, drat. I should have listened.

Just as I started to try to climb the page wire fence (in I must say my nice clean pants), up pulls My Hero, I am so happy he drives slower than I. He hops the fence and disappears into the darkness while I go and check the low wire fence we had been worried about, by the light of my headlights. My Hero seemed to be gone a long time  but I kept myself busy by pulling grape vines away from the wire (they sure are hard to break, gloves would have been nice) and trying to pull this page wire up at least a few more inches to look threatening to those darn cows. I walked around on the roadside and did not see any shadows nor did I hear the neighbours screaming so I assumed all was good. My Hero had gone to open the gate they could not wait to be opened and was still not back. I thought this had to be bad. I continued to make this low wire fence look threatening while all the time talking to Sandy and Mandy and asking why? My Hero shows up and helps make the fence look even more threatening (that is where brute strength comes in to play). Since we were both tired, we finally just crossed our fingers at this point and hoped the long green grass would keep them happy for now then off we went to relax or sleep. I would get up very early in the morning and check again.

Morning comes quickly and I hike over to inspect the damage. They are grazing in the lush green grass with smug looks on their faces and I truly think I heard one giggle. In the day light I could see how they had snapped four cedar rails in half and just walked right through, two panels down from the gate we were going to open this weekend. The page wire fence I had tried to make look threatening seemed to be working and now that I see how long the grass was I will not worry for at least a bit. My Hero will put some wire up tonight after work.

 Darn cows. Yup; they sure do look innocent don’t they? Don’t let them fool you.

Later