We went into the backyard to build a barrier so Bud couldn’t dig his way out and go after his targets – mice, moles, chipmunks, same as Zip –  Zip always sticks his nose into anything going on in the farm, he finds a way to follow us and see what’s happening. Maria went back and forth to get some rocks in the pasture, and Zip, the donkeys, Zinnia, and Fate followed her every step.

He was pretty happy up on that pole. He tried one position after another.

He finally jumped off onto the top of the woodshed. He is quite a character, curious, adventurous, and fearless.

She rolled up some chicken wire, buried it in a shallow trench, and laid some old stones from the old, now cleared, barn. My Willa Cather woman.