Thought of the week: March 20, 2011
It still is really cold outside here in Minnesota, but if you think the high water and fast current at the dog park will scare Jebbie, you are wrong!
Jeb is a fearless little freak who has more lives than a cat! Thank goodness this big pooch is still around and I am glad my heart is in good condition!
I am going to share just a few random moments when Jebbie could have met our maker during his lifetime, there are many other occurrences, but these rank in the top 10:
1) When he ate some rat poison and had swollen eyes, he looked like Mike Tyson. This was one of his earliest emergency vet office visits.
2) The day he ran away from Kristy in North Mankato. She ran all over the neighborhood chasing after him as he ran near hwy 169. If you see her, do yourself a favor and DON'T ever ask her about it!
3) At about 3:00 a.m.one night when I let the doggies out to go potty. Two went out, one returned (of course, Clara). "Someone" had left the gate to the backyard open and so there was a "Jebbie" on the lose. I found him three blocks over and I had to drive to get him.
4) Another Jebbie allergic reaction moment, not sure what it was this time, another visit to the vet.
5) At Tub and KT's house on our way to pick wild blackberries. Jeb bounded through the field and landed on an old fencepost which went deep into his chest. This event prompted yet another emergency visit to the vet.
6) Oh, and I almost forgot about Jebbie's escapades on the roof of my North Mankato townhouse.
Quote from the little, sweet old lady across the street, "Did you know there is a little yellow dog crawling on your roof?" Yes, Jeb decided to jump from the outside deck onto the roof. He was lucky he didn't fall off!
Hmmm...I love those two dogs so much, but Clara is not as high-maintenance as Jeb.
Go figure, he is a boy. :)
Now to other happenings...
I am going to Arizona with Small. Yes, we are driving there and back, and yes, we hope to still be close friends when we return.
Just a quick movie memory:
Lloyd: You're it.
Harry: You're it.
Lloyd: You're it, quitsies!
Harry: Anti-quitsies, you're it, quitsies, no anti-quitsies, no startsies!
Lloyd: You can't do that!
Harry: Can too!
Lloyd: Cannot, stamp it!
Harry: Can too, double stamp it, no erasies!
Lloyd: Cannot, triple stamp, no erasies, Touch blue make it true.
Harry: No, you can't do that... you can't triple stamp a double stamp, you can't triple stamp a double stamp! Lloyd!
Lloyd: [hands over ears] LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Harry: LLOYD! LLOYD! LLOYD!
We hope to not recreate this movie moment...
Yes, we are putting all aside and venturing into a new stage of our friendship...traveling together on a long drive to Arizona. Why not fly, you ask? Flights are too expensive right now and as teachers, we do not make the "big bucks" despite what all of the Wisconsin folks think...
Our plans are not written in stone for our trip. There will be a lot of relaxing, sight-seeing, reading, talking,
and knitting, of course.
No matter what our travels may bring, sunshine is always great and life is very good.
Here are a few of my favorite friendship quotes:
Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.
Milan Kundera
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
RICHARD BACH
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
HENRI NOUWEN, Out of Solitude
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