OK, so quoting Lynard Skynard might be stretching things just a bit, but I have really enjoyed my time in rural Alabama, catching up with Kathy and reacquainting myself with all her animals. The current cast of critters is really quite impressive - 13 cats, 6 dogs, 5 horses and 3 mules. It is a fluid situation with numbers up for negotiation at any given time.One things is for certain, as long as Jack is in residence there will be no need for an alarm clock!
Jack is a donkey with delusions of being a rooster. His greeting, at around 6 o'clock each morning, has a different resonance to the call to prayer (to say the least) but, in the environment, has a charm all its own.It has also been great to meet some of Kathy's family and other friends t
hat have been supportive over the years. Whether it is the people who come to the farm from time to time to help out, or hanging out in the feedstore in Tallapoosa, meeting the locals (ok so some of them were a little hard to understand and I'm not really sure what dialect they were speaking), I have a new collection of memories to be treasured.
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