A couple of days ago Buddy Baer was barking while looking out the window, which is not that unusual, but I will usually take a look and see what it is. There was nobody out there. But the wind was blowing pretty hard and it is peak pollen season, so there were these clumps of flower stuff that had fallen from oak trees. Those were blowing around and as they moved in the wind, kind of looked like squirrels or some kind of animal rolling around. There was definitely a correlation between movement of these tumbleweeds and Buddy’s barking. It got me wondering what that stuff is called and whether they were really from oaks or not. They are male flowers (pollen producers) from oaks called “catkins.” I don’t think I’d ever heard that word before, which is surprising since they come out every year. But Buddy must have known that it was something that sounded like “cat” since he definitely does not like cats.
Ha ha, that’s a cute story. I learned something new!