Monday, January 14, 2008

Intervention for a country boy

My houseshoe wearin', box shootin', trash talkin', cute lookin' Cat Eliminator! Each of you must know of his new obsession- everyone we see or meet hears the same line- it goes a little something like this.....

"Guess what Santa brought me for Christmas?"
"What?" they always say.
"A REAL gun!" says Brazos, waiting for a jubilant response.

Some feign excitement, others offer safety tips, while one even looked at me with the slightest contempt as I ducked my head like a guilty schoolgirl- hey, he hasn't joined the NRA, yet, what's the big deal? Its just "life in the country". Every child should be taught how to handle a firearm by the age of 5........although, I had the slighest feeling of fear when he so boldly exclaimed, "Man, if my gun was a .22, I would blow that cat away and we could have cat for supper"- honest, he said it.

3 comments:

Pawpaw said...
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Pawpaw said...

I'm glad he got the safety glasses.

That way he won't "shoot his eye out"

Jenn said...

Just think, next time one of the prisoners gets out at Spur you have back-up! J/K my boys have shot everything that moves(including the cows thanks to Uncle Dayton). We don't have birds, rabbits, quail, turkey, etc...