Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along word that the keeper is declaring war on the rabbit that is invading Phyllis’s raised garden and eating the tomatoes that the keeper had plans for.
The keeper remembers asking his aged father on one of dad’s later birthdays what he had learned over his many years of life, and dad’s response was that he had learned what a pleasure it was to sit in a chair in the middle of his garden.
There had been no discussion about dad sharing his garden with a rabbit, the unspoken verity being that no such thing would ever be tolerated.
In being true to his genes, the keeper will be sitting in a chair down by Phyllis’s garden and if the tomato-eating rabbit shows up it will receive a stern lecture about just who has the rights to Phyllis’s tomatoes.
Photo by Bill Stokes