Ruby Tuesday ~ She Has Spring Fever ~
Even though it is the beginning of April and flowers are trying to come up from the earth, tree branches are showing their buds, frogs are chanting around our pond and birds are busy doing what birds do, it doesn't look like Spring all that much. Grass is a drab brown, smushed down from being covered in snow for these past six months. Trees are barren, lifeless. My horses look like a pen of pigs, caked in mud. Around here, it is a sad sight to see.
Last Friday we had torrential rains that lasted throughout much of the day. Our ponds were filled to the brim. Ditches along our road became rapid rivers. So when Saturday brought bright blue skies and a warming sun, we felt a relief.
So did Ruby.
After being pent up most of Friday in her kennel, due to her driving rage to chase the horses through their muddy paddock, she was shunned into her cage. Because a short legged dog running through deep, wet mud can only create one thing. A very muddy, short legged dog. But also Friday's weather was no match for a thick furred, stout little Corgi. She was quite content to nap all day, snuggled on her fleece doggy blankets.
Saturday was a good day to be a dog. No, great. It was a great to day to be any type of animal and just be.
I sat on our asphalt driveway, watching my kids ride their bikes around me and noticing Ruby chasing and carrying her various chew toys that had disappeared under the snow all winter. Now she was finding them all. From her squeaky, fuzzy toy bone, to a half chewed rawhide bone, to her numerous mostly deflated balls.
She would spot one and charge off, running full speed then tackle it.
It's her favorite game. She reminds me of the Golden Retriever who starred as a great soccer player in several movies. A soccer playing dog. Its true! Ruby is one as well. Kick a ball to her and you are her hero for the day. 
Ruby has Spring fever. She has a bit more height in her bounce. She has more speed with her jumps. She's a bit louder, sassier when she barks orders to the horses. She can run faster now that the snow has disappeared. 
