Piper’s Fun Day

We played ball today. It was fun. Sometimes Mom pretends she throws my ball. I run and run after it, but she’s still holding my ball. When she does that, I run back to her and scold her. No fair. She shouldn’t tease me like that.

Sometimes when she throws my ball it hits a tree and flies away. Sometimes Mom throws my ball just so. That’s when I jump really, really high and catch my ball while it’s still flying. I like that. It’s fun to catch a flying ball. Sometimes I don’t catch it until it lands. That’s fun too. When I catch my ball, I run back to Mom so she can throw it again so I can run after it again.

After we played ball, we went out to the meadow. There’s lots and lots to sniff in the meadow. That’s where the deer like to play. I can see them from the window in the house where I live. There are lots of squirrels too. And bunnies and raccoons and birds and animals I don’t even know the names of.

Mom started to walk into the woods. That was really scary. I pretended to be busy sniffing at the edge of the woods. That way I didn’t have to go into the woods.  There are really scary things in the woods. Like fairies. Sometimes I hear them whispering at night. And the moon. The moon is really scary. It’s really bright in the trees. And the trees. They like to dance with the moon at night. Who knows what else is in the woods.

Mom said okay. We didn’t have to walk in the woods. The paths needed clearing anyway. Winter storms made them dirty with those dancing trees that left branches all over the place.

We walked back to the house. I asked if we could play ball again. But we went inside. I ran to the treat bin. That’s what I do when we go inside. I always get a treat. Treats are almost as good as playing ball. Maybe they’re even better.