Home at last!

    Since I don't know who knows and who doesn't let me start with the bitter. Driving home From the airport it became my son's duty to inform me that one of my best friends had passed on. One day before I got home the world's most loved and greatest dog Juneau Braue had to be put down.(details later, like they matter) Never forgotten and forever missed I didn't get the homecoming I was dreaming of, her house empty and her leash slack. After all the crap that happened to me on, as Keith so prophetically put it, my Indian adventure, (Details forthcoming) this some how doesn't compute doesn't fit, doesn't make since. So if I didn't take your call Sunday night or haven't e-mailed quick enough please understand! She was adored by every vet. (all of them would say you could tell she was deeply loved) and I think everyone who had the priviledge of meeting her.

    So since I'm always the first one up, when the kitchen light went on she was the second (her paws on the screendoor) and the first to receive my affection, a huge hug, general rub down, kiss on the muzzle which she always returned. She would wait, sometimes impatiently for me to make my coffee knowing when after I poured milk into my cup it would then pour into a stainless bowl for her. She quickly learned that if she got too sassy she would have to wait untill she laid down quietly to get her morning treat. She was rarely sassy. Alas, no more. We blessed each other's lives for almost nine years to the day, I have no regrets, just fond memories. I guess that I'm thankful it happened so quickly she only suffered for a day, and I was spared having to watch her health slowly decline to the same end. She was releived of her pain while still under anesthetic yet was able to respond to the families last touch. With all the accidents and things that I've endured none makes me look heavenward more questioningly than the timing of this, not looking for reasons, just trying to understand His purpose in it.

    So Juneau's life with our family ends, as my new life with the same begins, the sun sets and new one always rises, such is life. The Lord gives the Lord takes away, Blessed be the Name of the Lord!

Your fellow sojourner on this planet, still looking for that city who's architect and builder is God,