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Kentucky Color: Smokey III, Pears and Yellowjackets By Billy Joe Fudge English Pointers are born with some higher quality tools in their tool box than are many other types of dogs. Great noses, great personalities, high IQs, highly refined ground-bird hunting DNA, and loyalty to their human families, to name just a few. Smokey was born in June, 1955. Since I was only 5 years old, there are many things about his early years that I learned from my family and others that interacted with him. However, concerning loyalty to their human families, the brother-to-brother bond we held for each other as we both grew up was firmly imprinted on my heart from the very first time Dad brought him home. Each time I see a picture of him, I remember things like us sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the front porch. Looking south across our pond and fruit orchard toward Rock Lick Creek, we would converse about a broad range of subjects. Oftentimes, it might be something we had covered the day before or maybe even something completely new would arise that we would want to cover. Sometimes, without uttering a word, we would wonder about things. We would wonder about things like, if Ma Fudge would want to pick up some pears off the ground today. I would tell Smokey how the best pear preserves had to be made from pears that had ripened on the tree and mellowed on the ground for a spell. I wasn't sure if he remembered, so I would remind him that as soon as the Yellowjackets would start gnawing on'm, they are perfect for the sweetest pear preserves. Well as soon as I mentioned Yellowjackets, Smokey reminded me of the time a Yellowjacket stung him on the tongue. He said he could hardly lap up water for a couple of days. We both agreed about how much we hated Yellowjackets! Back to pears, I asked Smokey if he had seen that long pole with a Maxwell House coffee can nailed on it. He didn't answer so I figured he hadn't seen it. I told him that I used it when I had to help Ma pick pears off the trees the other day to put in the cellar. Since it was obvious that he was confused, I explained. When you are goin' to store pears in the cellar, they can't be bruised. So Ma would lift that pole up in the tree and put that coffee can right up around a pear and gently shake the can. When the pear would come loose in the can, Ma would lean the pole over to me and I would take the pear out and place it, gently, mind you, in a bucket. Ma said, "No use goin' through all this trouble if you are gonna bruise'm by dropping them in the bucket"! I was gonna explain about wrapping pages of the Courier Journal around them but Ol' Brownie, Pa Fudge's little tree dog, came running across the porch, just cut'n a rusty after that danged old ground hog that had took up residence in the tile under the road! Needless to say, Smokey took off after him! In case you missed them: This story was posted on 2025-06-09 08:11:44
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