walk in the park

So. Basil can swim. Maggie isn't afraid of water (or big ass snakes) and we had a great time meandering around at Cochran Mill park on Monday. Here are my obligatory child-photos. I warn you, I will be almost as annoying as a new parent for a while! Haha :) Love them!

Women may be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships ~James Shuber

Ahh. And just when I thought I couldn't quite pinpoint my sincere intolerace of some guys--a perfect quip just JUMPS out at me and I realize that if nothing less, someone else has gone through the same shit enough to have come up with a good line for it.

life is so rough

Saturday at the office with mom was very difficult. Evidently.

A quiet house is no place to live.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ~George Eliot

well.....

this sweet girl was the reason I went back to the pound today. After the loss of my puppy finally became a too much to bear anymore, a close friend shared that the only other solution was to get another. I went to www.petfinder.com and visited her last week, then over Easter weekend she was placed on the "urgent" list, and that was all it took. I had to have her. I named her Basil.

She is 100% good old black labrador. And definitly has been someones indoor pet. I have joked that she has stated on several occasions since her adoption, "ahem, I was told I'd get a fan and tevo. Could you please check my contract?"



And this little pumpkin (below) was also at the pound the first time I went. She was so sweet and docile. Marked as 1 year old, so a little young for my age-range, but I promised her then that if I came back I would get her. Today after going in to pick up the big girl, this little Shepard-mix sat perfectly still, looked at me dead in the eye and said to me, "I have been quiet. I have been sweet. I have not barked once. If you leave me now, I know you'll never be back."

And I started to cry. So I got both. Her name is Maggie.





I am terribly in love with them both. And I suppose the feeling is probably mutual.

all dogs go to heaven

so this is all I can muster. I'm not sure it's possible to fully grieve the loss of a pet you have loved and raised. I'm not sure I'll ever get over it.























Here's to you sweet Louise. You are so very missed.




Louise Lu-Lu Barnes
March 13 2008 - March 30, 2009





The dog is a gentleman--I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899