Trip trap -- trip trap

For the last several days, one of our dogs, Bart a brown standard poodle, runs like a bat out of hell toward the north corner of our fenced yard—a distance of about 150 feet from our back door in his reckless pursuit of his nemesis...in point of fact - he's barking as I type.

A few days ago, a button buck appeared in our backyard. Bart began to bark at him which caused the button buck to charge Bart....unfortunately or fortunately -- our chain link fence separated the two foes. The button buck's actions completely, to say the least, surprised Bart; he promptly sat down in a state of confusion. Meanwhile, the button buck was unable to deal with the notion of a chain link fence…so he began to withdraw – which caused Bart to begin aggressively barking. The button buck then shook his head at Bartie and charged the fence only to be foiled once again by the fence. This cycle of barking/charging happened two more times….at which point the two legs in the house moved from barely comprehending this interaction into complete and total hysterical side-splitting laughter.

I kept thinking this is emblematic of our time…. Brownie you’re doing a heck of a job in New Orleans, Iraq, Afghanistan, in education.....etc. etc. etc. everyone these days seems to have slipped into a dee dee dee state.........