Attribution: Thomas Booker (CoderThomasB), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, observes, along with the keeper and Phyllis, that life is a continuous process of learning from the curious among us, such as Louie the hired man who once challenged the horse barn ghost to come out and account for itself.
But a better farm boy memory for the keeper was collaborating with Louie to measure the speed of electricity as it completed its half mile circuit around the night pasture. Louie’s inquiring mind needed to know how long it took the electric fence charge–designed to stop cows—to get from the fence charger to the end of the wire that he gripped as he signaled for the keeper to turn on the fencer.
The initial fencer charge was immediate and strong enough to set Louie back on his haunches with a shouted curse.
It is an image that the keeper treasures, along with the satisfaction of having helped to prove that electricity travels damn fast!
It is the kind of thing that occupies the keeper’s brain so he doesn’t have to think about Pete Hegseth.
