Less the boy, now see the man

This weekend, Jack found something he didn't know existed (get your minds out of the gutter, he knows that is there- he licks it every five minutes just to show off).  No, I mean he found himself a girlfriend.

Ah, country life.  Is it the closeness to nature, the clean air, or our basic genetic makeup which calls so strongly upon the libido when we finally escape the confines of asphalt, concrete, and steel?  Perhaps it is the freedom of being alone with our thoughts and feeling the blood stir at the seasonal changes.  Who could say?  Yet I will vouch for the effect, if not the affect: I took Jack to the country this last weekend, and he

 transformed.

I had my friend Gary come out to help 

me do a roof.  With this, he brought his wife Nico and two dogs to stay for a couple of days.  No big deal, and actually a good thing to have some company.  I know Jack likes these dogs since he sees them every drill weekend, and I know Gary and Nicole enjoy getting outside with the dogs.  Everybody wins.

Gary and I used all of Saturday to do a roof, but finished it to our pleasant surprise.  That left all of Sunday to fool around: four wheeling, trails, walks, beer, guns, archery... and so on.  The possibilities are limitless.  We took the dogs for a walk over to a near-by pond.  Aries (Gary's big dog) loves the water and was dying to swim.  His other smaller dog -who I will call Anna, since her real name is made up and impossible to spell- is a girl and was having fun wading and playing with Jack.  

I met some of the people from town who use the pond, and we talked briefly.  It was good, since I don't have much contact with the locals since I moved out.  It is good to make sure everybody knows who everybody is when you could run into them at an inconvenient time (read:

 hunters should be aware of other people in the area since we may cross paths with guns in the dusk).

Anyway, Jack enjoyed the swim.

So, we went back home and relaxed a bit on the porch before starting to make some new trails in the back acreage.  And then, well, Jack was overcome with his affection for Anna.  I am proud of him.  Granted, it could have gone better.

Both are fixed, but he didn't seem to care.  She's a bit bigger than him (twice his size, I would say), but attractive.  He didn't quite get it all figured out, but she didn't seem to mind.  In fact, the indifference with which she regarded his advances reminded me of many of my ex-girlfriends, and his indifference to all of this reminded me of me.  

He will see her again this weekend, so let's all wish him well.  I know I'm pulling for him.