sad sad daze

been an awful run of loss lately

Sammie - a little foster cat; Hank- Tom's heart - the best farm dog EVER ; Flopsy Mo- born in our house 14 years ago: Lukie-- the baby fibre bunny who stole my heart on first look .... Coco - the lovely himi lady: Sophie the grey bunny companion for Bebe...

none of the deaths expected or sensible - or related to the others - a hard time for us - we are shell shocked honestly

brought home this though on Friday night - 5.5 months old .. a total love bug - full of character ... we'll see how he fits in



our first dog was a golden named Rufus - he was a ding a ling but a wonderful dog - Sampson will have very big paws to fill between all of our great large dogs - Rufus, Laurice and Hank .. we have had alarge dog in the house for the past 19 years .. and Sally while fabulous in her own right is not a large dog!

a lovely lovely day

hard to believe that this time last March we couldn't see our fences for snow drifts - today we were out ALL DAY.

• pulling thatched grass
• poking garlic cloves back under the soil
• raking up old apples and tossing them into compost
• clearing the pond path some more
  
  
• sitting by the pond
• finding old bird nests
  
  
• throwing sticks for Sally and Hank
• cutting the last of the long logs from firewooding expeditions in the fall
• filling the indoor wood pile
• clipping Brody (very badly)
  

what a lovely way to spend the first day of a week of holidays...

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on an unrealted note- Brody still has his drain in ... Hank is watching him sadly and carefully - he's obviously worried about his little buddy and wants him well again - heart breaking eh?

Are there are days, weeks, months...

when you just wish you didn't have to get up?

I'm a pretty positive person but my family and I have been whacked with some heavy stuff of late ..

this weekend dealing with dogs..


Brody is my heart...

Hank is Big T 's heart ...

and it looks like they really can't live together

so so so sad ... so unsure as to what resolution is best for us as a family and as individuals ...

let sleeping dogs lie?

Dear Hank - after how long of leaping up every time I touched my camera or phone finally had to give in and try the bed. It must have been comfy as he actually slept through the photo shoot! Then he stretched out - right across both beds ... too cute. Apparently chewing the stick (see crumbs on bed) was much harder work than he anticipated!



The Queen of catching a nap - curled up on her coat here and wearing her tee shirt .. and I don't dress dogs I swear to it ... but Thea is currently wearing a tee when the weather is below zero - she didn't get much chance to grow a coat this fall and shivers wildly when nude!



Sally sleeping in the chihuahua bed :)



Dozing ... usually as restful as she gets



Brody sleeping in the bed he kicked Sally out of ...

I guess I'll let them lie with it being Sunday and all ... Lord knows I could sleep a month if I could turn my brain off for a bit...lucky dogs