A Fox!

Tom always says.........."when your in the woods, always be looking as you never know what you might see."

He reflects this statement on a daily basis, always looking out the window, and when he spots something cool he hollers for me and than says ............"always be looking because in the woods you never know what you might see."

WELL this morning when the three decided "I" needed to be up and awake because Tom wanted his coffee and the girls wanted to play, I seen the most beautiful Red Fox on the driveway close to the house.

The girls were outside doing their potty business and I was making coffee, when I noticed Maggie stop and point. Now when I went to look at what she was pointing at I expected to see a partridge but low and behold, it was the fox.

Now I was lucky LILLY was not in a "position" to see it or she would be history.......and Maggie is an over achiever, didn't feel a threat, and just let me know it was there. Maggie is a "SAINT" Lilly is just having a hard time living up to her big sisters achievements. She suffers from middle child syndrome.

A couple days ago Tom called me to the window and said..."do you see anything out there?" I said "the deer?" He said "no... something else." "Well where should I be looking" I asked? "Out there" is a lot of area if what he is looking at is small.

Then he gave me a clue....."on the ground by the edge of the woods" So as I look and strain to see what he sees I repeat the words...."on the ground by the edge of the woods"...........

Out of frustration he says, "CINDY! Don't you see the partridge, there is three or four of them"....... "Oh yeah I seen them!" I said, trying to cover the fact that even after he pointed them out I could barely make them out because it was dusk. "The way you were talking I thought you seen something unusual." I said. "Yah......I see the partridges."

He didn't buy my story and once again he recited his saying......"when your in the woods, always be looking as you never know what you might see."