This One's for Bryan Wade

Well you may or may not be old enough to remember Sparkle Plenty. For those of you who do not, I will fill you in.

Dick Tracy appeared in 1931 (even before my time) written and drawn by Chester Gould.  Still runs today.  Different creator but still basically the same.   An iconic strip reflecting the social time and happenings of the day. Tracy was the police detective to end all police detectives. He got in trouble, he solved cases, he was accused of crimes. Just an all around interesting fellow with the squarest jaw  known to the art world.

He finally married Tess Trueheart after a courtship of 18 years. If you work crossword puzzles you have  come across a clue that reads  "Tracy's wife". The answer is  "Tess".  Its used a lot.  Tracy introduced the first two way wrist radio to keep in contact with headquarters. It is credited with being a precursor to the cell phone. (I get all this marvelous information from  Wikipedia ) Tess and Tracy had their first baby, Junior.   Junior grew up and married an alien who later died (by the way the alien period did not go over well and that's why she was killed off by Gould)  Then he married Sparkle Plenty daughter of Tracy's good friends "B.O.  and Gravel Plenty".    They had a daughter named Sparkle Plenty, Jr.    I know you are absolutely mesmerized with this information.

Now all I have to do is tie Sparkle Plenty in with Bryan Wade. For those of you who might not know Bryan. He is a veterinarian. A doctor to small animals.  I don't personally know if he is a Super Vet but my good friends and relatives who are owned by Mollie the Poodle say that he is. That's plenty good for me. Soon I will find this out for myself.

This is for all intents and purposes an ADOPTION ANNOUNCEMENT  (no gifts please). We are now the adoptive parents of Sparkle, a three year old rescued white miniature Schnauzer, who spent most of her three years tied to a tree.  We just returned from Abilene where we picked her up.  I finally learned how to put a picture in here.  The one below is the actual ad from PetFinder.  She doesn't look like this now.  She has been groomed for the summer which means she has been basically shaved except for her face which still looks like a schnauzer.   I just haven't learned how to do more than one picture at a time yet. you can click on the picture and see her better.

We thought long and hard about this move. We have been searching Pet Finder for weeks looking at rescue dogs. Many reasons not to do it. The main one is, we are too old. HOWEVER: Before adopting we cleared it with our Ohio Nephew and Niece and with our Tennessee Grand Niece. In the event something happens to us they will take Sparkle. That's what her foster family called her and we will not change it because she should not have to undergo another change in her life. Many others in our family would take good care of Sparkle, but we think she would be happy in Ohio or Tennessee.

My niece in Oklahoma is going to shake her head. She is the only one in our family who is opposed to any dog in the house. We just ignore her when it comes to pets. My sister, will say "Why in the world would you want to get a dog at this point in your lives". She would also point out all the reasons we should not have gotten one but would be okay with it in the long run, just never get attached .

In any event another reason we got this particular dog is so that I could tie Dick Tracy, Sparkle Plenty and Bryan Wade together. Its not every day you get to do that.