Moving

Well, mommy and I are about to head out on our adventure, it feels like just yesterday she brought me home and showered me with lots of love and attention.  We have been through a lot together, from daddy leaving to other personal losses, but the whole time I have been her support and best friend.  We are packing the house right now, well, she is and I am supervising.  Occasionally getting under foot but she just pats me on the head and gives my ears their rub and sends me on my way.

Now the car trip is going to be rather interesting, my sister does not like to ride in the kennel so she needs a little help IE, medication.  Uh huh, hope it helps her as we really do not want to spend hours upon hours listening to her meow at the top of her little lungs, it sounds like she is dying.  And there is no way to hold her or comfort her so we hope this works out well.  We saw my favorite Vet Brooke and she gave mom a prescription for her and we tested her out and she seemed pretty mellow to say the least.  She kind of looked like a stoned kitty.

Anyway, the house is an utter mess, mommy had a moving sale this weekend, she did very well, and now we are just finishing up all the little tid bits here and there and packing and doing errands and going to the dump and blah, blah, blah I am already tired just writing it and I am not the one doing it.

OH mommy was so funny yesterday, she is so sweet, we went to do errands together as that is our thing, and we stopped at Dunkin Donuts for mommy to get a large iced coffee as she needed caffeine and she bought me a kid portion ice cream, and then pulled over and fed me.  She said she wished she had a camera because I had all this love in my eyes while eating the ice cream.

It is  a rare treat so I was in heaven and digging it!  Well, mommy is about to disconnect the computer and pack it away so I just wanted to get on here and tell all my friends and Brooke that I will miss you guys so much and hope mommy and I are as blessed in our new place as we were here in making friends and finding a good vet!!!!  Oh well look at that, I have to go lick mommy's face and wake her up so she can finish packing us up so can get out of dodge!!!!!!!!  So glad mommy got me and not daddy :-)  He proved to not be too good at being there when things get tough and with mommy no matter what I know she will always be here for me and sis, and us her.

I almost got killed today!!

Whew!! I had a close call with death today and it left me a little shaken for at least an hour today.  Mommy has been trying to get the house ready for the Realtor and for the public to come and look at the house.  The Realtor told mommy to move some furniture around and remove some from certain rooms to make rooms look bigger.  Well today mommy was having a difficult time moving this handmade wooden chest up the stairs and finally reached the top, I was at the bottom of the steps supervising, and she let go to move something that was in her way and then it happened!!  I heard mommy scream, "NO, NO, NO!!!"  Two times and I was frozen and mesmerized by this wooden chest doing flip flops back down the stairs and heading right for me!! I moved in the absolute last minute and mommy cried.

She was so worried the wooden chest was going to seriously hurt me and I seriously had only seconds to move before it landed at the base of the stairs.  The funny thing is, that handmade wooden chest survived the tumble down the steps and it did not crash into any of the walls nor did it scrape or damage anything on it's way down.  I was amazed, which goes to show you that if you are going to buy anything of good quality, you probably want to purchase something hand made.  Those can take a licken and keep on ticken, or better yet, they can take a tumble and live on to rumble.  OK, OK, so I can not find anything that will rhyme with tumble but my point is the wooden handmade chest was so well made it survived a fall down the steps and lets face it, if you had purchased something store bought, assembled via assembly line, I doubt it would have survived. 

That was my only adventure today if you do not count getting the chance to sniff the AC man's crotch twice, LOL, mommy was so embarrassed as usual but I just could not resist getting a sniff in as it was right there, right at nose level, so I smelled.  It is not like I buried my nose in his crotch, but hey, given the chance.  What is really funny is how these repairmen that I do it too try and act like nothing is going on, which makes me wonder if they actually like it you know??!!!

I mean, mommy will raise her voice firmly and say no!!  And they just say "Oh it is OK" and keep on talking to her, as if nothing was going on but something was going on, my nose was in their crotch, but like I said, not a one tried to stop me or move, not a single one and I am 10 1/2 years old and I have been doing this since I was a puppy so over the years I think I have accosted at least 12 repairmen, and not a one flinched.  Go figure ;-))))

Well, it has been a long day today, mommy stained the deck yesterday and then it rained today and it was not calling for rain, and she has been packing and cleaning and fixing and just watching her today as exhausted me, at one point she actually looked at me and said, "do you think you can grab this end for me" then she laughed.  You know you would think that my daddy, the dead beat ex, would help mommy out with getting this house ready for market, but hey, he wont even help her in the sharing of repair work that needs to be done to this house like he is supposed to per the court agreement, but that is another entry, do not feel like thinking about him right now but another funny thing is this, he actually asked the Realtor is mommy was being cooperative and what is funny is that this is coming from a  man who is supposed to help with repair costs and wont fork over a penny, so really, which one is being cooperative and uncooperative?? ;0(

I have this saying in canine world, "If you leave shit to be stepped in you too will step in shit", you really need to learn how to treat others like you would want to be treated, it is sooooo simple

Love is in the air!!

Now,  I have to say I love spring!!!  All the birds and flowers and tons of time I spend outside with mommy just make my heart leap for joy.  Plus the warm weather is a blessing, I love to lay on the deck and sun myself while listening to the birds sing in the trees.

You can just see the joy in my face as I gaze up with such love and merriment.  It is during this time, spring time, that I find myself loving all things around me.  Even the air is filled with a myriad of aroma's that wet my mouth and make me want to drool puddles and puddles on the deck.

I am not speaking about romantic love, my love is Jake, I am speaking about the love which equals the depths of being re-born, like loving a new you, spring brings forth new beginnings, life to the dead, it awakens the spirit which has been shut in by the cold and dark winter.  I love life, and I love spring because it is a reminder that those things that are in the past and gone, are gone, a new beginning is right around the corner.  

Now you may wonder what kind of new beginning can a canine be talking about, well you see, a new beginning means a new city to live in, a new home, being closer to family, helping mommy start her life again, in a new direction, living the adventure, it is fitting that she is planning to move us to another state, to a new home, to be closer to her family, our family, and it is poetic and more meaningful to me that we are about to embark on this new adventure in the spring time.  Spring is a metaphor as new bulbs, buds, petals all push their way through the thorns and thickets and dead leaves and dried twigs to reach the sunlight and bloom and blossom.

My mommy and I have been doing this for a very long time, since daddy left, and then since her mommy died, we have endured years and years of long cold winters, but now spring is here, literally here, and mommy has been pushing and fighting her way through all the dead leaves, dried grass, thickets and thorns and twisted and knotted debris that only winter has, to begin to bloom and blossom, she is almost at the point to where all flowers reach the sun and open up and drink in it's warmth.

She is so close right now, and the move and enrolling full time in school will be her breaking through the dark, cold bitter season of heart ache and loss.  Through it all, she had me and I have her and together we will set out on this journey and together we will make a happy new home and enjoy all the sunshine life has to offer us.  This is why I love spring because not only is it really here but metaphorically is has been a long time coming and I welcome it with open arms.