but I digress.....

     I haven't blogged in a while, and I know that is bad form. I try to always "write funny."  Life is tough enough - I like to laugh when I write, and I hope you like to laugh when you read. Sometimes, though, the laughs just aren't there, so I'll just tell you and move on.
     For the last eight or nine years, as long as as I have been writing on a daily basis, I have had two faithful office dogs who wedged their furry bodies into my tiny office  and stayed with me through every word. They were old dogs, grumpy old men, best friends united against the puppies, and recently health problems and age took an inevitable toll on their combined thirty-some years.
     As they declined, my daughter cooked them special food and carried them to the backyard so they could peek from beneath the magnolias once again.  Carrying was no small feat, since they were each fifty pounds, more or less.  She took them on their beloved car trips to the drive-through for chicken nuggets, and, toward the end, slept on the floor of the den with them in case of a crisis in the night.
     They departed within a few weeks of one another, and this office is mighty lonely. Our  youthful black Lab girl has taken up office duty and is asleep at my feet right now. They were dear friends, full of quirks and behaviors, some charming, some not so much.  But it all added up to two lives well-lived, lots of love given and received, and who among us can hope for more than that.