(Theo is the canine companion of Silke, who is a minister.)
Dear Bos,
I
have to admit that I am occasionally surprised by the lady I take care
of - once in a while, she will look at the big square of
paper on the cold food storage locker - you know the one I mean - the
one covered by little squares and numbers and scribbles of what she was
supposed to do but forgot. She looks at it and then looks at me and
shakes her head and says something about big numbers - she says I will
be 86 years old this week - whatever THAT means! She also says something
about me being little HA! When I get up on my hind legs and look one of
those bruisers in the eye: guess who backs down first? Age? Size? don't mean a thing to us 4-legged creatures, do they!
You
know, I overheard one of those humans in the big hall next to my home
saying something about not being able to teach an old dog new tricks -
(??) As IF! I gave my lady such a surprise a few sleeps ago.
She
took me along with her to this big house with lots of rooms because we
were stopping off "to do a service" on our way to visit my girl a bunch
of rumbles further down the road. It
was cool. She took me around the room and I got to meet a whole bunch
of people who never got out of their chairs. They came in on wheels and
made lots of happy noises when I said hello to them.
She
told me to get up on the chair while she was "doing the service." It
was interesting because I had never watched her "do" a service before. I
just put my chin on my paws and watched and then I got to come down off
the chair and say goodbye to all these nice people with the funny
smells. I don't think they paid nearly as much attention to her as they did to me.
One
of them smelled really wrong and I kept going back to her - I knew she
was really really sad because she was going to be leaving this world
very soon. I kept going back and rubbing my head against her knees.
She did leave before I got back from my holidays. I hope she stopped being sad before she went. I know she was going to a very good place.
You
and I are going to that good place too - I know you're going to get
there before I do, so can you save me a couple of those biscuits please.
Looking
forward to seeing you here first though - my lady keeps telling me
you're s'posed to come for a visit to my new home. Tell your lady to
hurry up, would you?
Blessings
Theo.
1 comment:
thank you!
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