I am still waiting on Ruby's calf, so frequent checks and treks to the barn are becoming routine. This morning we (the dogs and I) checked on her, then went up to let the horses out to pasture. I walked back to the house (another check, still no calf) and only Decibel had come back with me. As I opened the door, Skeeter comes racing up behind me, so I got two out of four dogs. I wasn't too worried, as Maggie was likely just checking the wood pile for rabbits, and Ralph is a bit slow these days, and so I went into the house to look up Ruby's birthdate in my livestock book. I left the front door open for Maggie and Ralph to come in.
Naturally I spent a few extra minutes reminiscing about the calves I had raised (most were beef cattle) and suddenly Decibel went into full alert bark mode:
"Timmy fell down the well!"
Or as she says it:
WOOO-WOOO-wooo-WOOOO-WOO!
She charged out the door, barking, raced back in, (C'mon, Mom, someone is in trouble!), back out. I followed her and saw Maggie coming down the path, she was fine. That wasn't it, Decibel ignored her 'sister' and kept running out and back, ears up, barking, and wanting me to follow.
The trouble?
Ralph, who is no longer spry, had followed me out on the pasture when I turned the horses out, but he had not walked back through the gate, but rather had followed me through the paddocks, fallen behind, and was now 'trapped' in the bottom paddock. To get out he would have had to walk away from the corner closest to the house, through two paddocks and back out through the pasture gate which is high enough so dogs can easily go under it. But Ralph decided that he was trapped in the paddock and barked for help in the corner.
He was locked in!
I put Maggie in the house and told Decibel to show me and find Ralph.
Oh, she was ready for action!
She poked and pushed me, charged ahead, raced back to make sure I would come and did her best Lassie imitation, if Lassie ever poked people in the butt to get them moving . I 'rescued' Ralph, who then had to suffer the excited kisses and playful jumps and such from Decibel. She was right proud of herself.
What a good girl. She rescued Ralphie!
And she knew it too.
The above was so fun and amazing, that I had to brag about Decibel, and almost forgot all about the neutrinos exceeding 'c' that they supposedly observed at CERN.
I was going to blog about that; neutrinos being faster than light, something I had proposed way back in April 25 1985 (really, I got it all witnessed and signed and such).
My universe has neutrinos go faster than light, but since time flow reverses at such speeds, it APPEARS to an observer that neutrinos are slightly slower than the speed of light, with the energy that is needed to overcome the speed of light in a vacuum and distorting time observed as 'mass' of a neutrino, using good old E=mcc.
It all made sense to me back then, and while my understanding of particle and high energy physics is pretty rudimentary, I did independently come up with the notion of Planck time back then as well, and I am still proud of that. Only took me twenty years to find out it was Planck time I had 'invented' back then, but that is another story. Still, they named an institute after him...
As for the neutrinos... well, maybe they can go faster than light since they are not obligated to follow the curvature of space-time, whereas light has to, and maybe I was right in 1985, and either way, I was certainly A LOT cheaper than CERN, or maybe they just didn't measure it right and I am completely wrong, but still WAY cheaper than CERN. Time will tell.
In the meanwhile I am rooting for the neutrinos. I never did like speed limits anyhow.
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