If you are among my many friends who are sick to death of hearing JJ stories, you may want to move onto someone else's Thankful Thursday post. I can't help it, I am helplessly enamored with my little dog. He just cracks me up each and every day, and I can't get enough of him. Let me start this story by telling you that he is a chicken. He is afraid of his own shadow and finds even a plastic bag in the wrong place, to be a menacing enemy, that he must run behind me to bark at. He loves to tease the cat, but when she's had enough and chases him back, if I am sitting, he will jump straight into my lap! If I am standing, he will run behind me and start threatening her with his growling.
This morning, I was out on the deck enjoying a cup of tea and my Oprah magazine. I was reading a shocking story about teen girls and sex and may I digress long enough to be thankful that I have sons and not daughters? Into this quiet morning, JJ comes out and starts barking at the cooler that is still on my deck, filled with water and soda from the family party we had on Saturday. I am not really thankful that no one else will empty this and I will eventually have to do it myself, but that's another digression!
Shhh! JJ! Why are you barking at the cooler? "Growl... Ruff.... Growl... Ruff!!!"
He is not backing away from this enemy, and I assume he is barking at the cooler, because it shouldn't be there anymore! I know JJ, you'd think one of the able-bodied men that live here with me would have emptied that darn cooler already.
"Growl... Ruff.... Growl... Ruff!!!"
What is it little guy?
It's a toad!! You would have thought JJ was a Republican and Obama was trying to make his case about health care, the way this dog was carrying on! (Just kidding... no comments on politics on Thankful Thursdays, please!!).
I'm telling you, the dog is quite simply one of the great loves of my life and I am ever grateful to him for lighting up my days with his antics and his doggy face. He is the cutest thing I've ever seen and he makes me laugh out loud everyday!
I am also thankful today for the peace that came to my friend Evelyn Ward. Evelyn, aged 82, fought a dignified fight against bone cancer and is now at peace. She passed away the Sunday after I got back from vacation and is flying up in heaven with the angels and her beloved husband John, whom she met at aged 65, when she stopped in the local airport to take flying lessons. She got more than she bargained for, she got lessons and the love of her life. Evelyn was a fun loving and unique individual that hired me to deliver meals on wheels some time last year. We hit it off immediately and became wonderful friends. I will miss her, but I am at peace knowing that she is on her way to a new adventure in heaven. I am thankful to have met and befriended such a wonderful little lady!
I have much to be thankful for, My sons are healthy, my husband and I are both busy at work, my mom was just here for a visit, I have many friends that I adore. I am going to the beach with my best friend on Sunday for an overnight. Life is good. I am thankful.
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