A True Story
To catch the Teddy, you have to be the neighbor who sets the traps.
Our son and family stopped for the stop sign only 1\4 mile from the house and noticed a turkey feather anchored upright in a gopher hill. They noted immediately that it had to have been hand planted to be used as a marker. So they took the effort to investigate and discovered gopher traps in that gopher hole. They went home and sorted through our grandchildren’s stuffed animal collection. The brown, furry teddy was select to be the one that would get caught in the neighbor’s gopher traps. Scarcely home from their mission, the neighbor drove into their yard with this story.
I could tell I had something in the traps. The chains pulled heavy and soon I could see brown fur. What in the whole wild kingdom could that animal be? I carefully kept taking up chain thinking, what if its still alive? Can you imagine my reaction when, in exact concert with my thoughts, Teddy’s short brown arms felt freedom and shot straight out to full wingspan? I think I did a double dribble before I came to my senses and realized you are the probable ones interested in the final chapter of this mission.