Hunting with Bucky

At last! I figured out how to scan a photo into my pictures folder...stop laughing, I know it's elementary stuff...I'm a little slow...

Last spring, my Dad took Belle out bird hunting. Now, Belle is an animal lover. She has been known to start sobbing during Benji movies when nothing sad is even happening--just because of the touching music and the presence of a dog. So, I wasn't sure how the whole day would work out.
It turns out that Belle loves Bucky as much or MORE than she loves animals. And the thought of going out and walking in a field shooting birds was a way-cool idea if she could be with "Bucky the Wonderful" (this is the title my Dad now goes by with my girls). Okay, so that's understandable...but did she really have to get into it so much? Not only did she pose with the corpses of these two chuckers, but she assisted in cutting them all up--and wanted to keep the heads and feet...if I remember rightly, she wanted to keep them under her bed! For weeks after this picture, she wore that orange hat everywhere. To the store, to friend's houses, and to bed. She had the toastiest head in town. NEVER was it uncovered and allowed freedom from the orange hat!
Now, when visiting Mimi & Bucky's, she doesn't ask to watch cartoons...she asks to watch channel 153, which Bucky has informed her is the hunting channel. What a weird kid.
Just in case anyone has any worries about Belle being too much of a tomboy, this morning she said that the next time she goes hunting with Bucky she was going to bring a camo purse! Is that a well-balanced sense of self, or what??? :)