Dog and Pod

No great subject to post about today so I'll tell you about my day yesterday.

Choco escaped again. Sigh. I don't know what I'm going to do about this dog. I don't know if I should praise her or scold her. I don't know if I should be happy or upset. Choco was still in the yard at 6:30 when one class of kids went home. (She was barking up a storm.) At 7:10 one of the little girls from the earlier class came into the house to get her pencil case that she had forgot. When she opened the front door to leave (her mother was waiting in the car) a very muddy Choco bounded into the house. Of course they met head on and it took me a second for it to register that Choco was not in the back yard where she was supposed to be. Of course Choco lunged at the girl and went all ferocious. I grabbed Choco and the girl ran out of the house unhurt. The mother didn't even get out of the car. It was scariest to me though that if the girl had met Choco in the yard and I hadn't been right there that she really could have gotten hurt. But again, Choco was just coming home from a happy jaunt around the fields. She didn't expect to meet the girl head on either.

I'm happy that Choco comes back after she runs away. I'm happy that she didn't get hit by a car. I'm happy that she didn't really bite the girl. I'm upset that she attacked and that I can't trust her. I'm upset that she is so smart to slip out of the numerous collars I have on her...

Do you remember this picture? I took it in July during the rainy season. This is a picture of the beautiful lotus flowers in the lotus field not far from me.

And THIS is the lotus pod now that the leaves and flowers have all dried up and are brown and sagging. I half waded into the flooded field and could just reach this one pod. Tetsu was hanging onto me so that I didn't fall completely in. He couldn't understand the fascination to a dirty old pod but I find the ridges and craters very interesting...

"Don't tell me you're going to put that on your blog!"

The pod itself is quite hard already and the seeds are rattling around inside and occasionally falling out. I have seen interesting dried flower arrangements using these pods (and fabric!) but I'm not sure I can figure it out.