Walking With Daisy # 2

 Here I am home another day with Daisy and Mate. What an exciting time we have had since we last wrote. Horrible fires in our community and we are praying for rain. During the heaviest of the fires we had friends call who were being evacuated from their home. They asked if they could come to our house with their dogs. Of course we said yes.





One of the dogs is an Irish Wolfhound, named Fen.  To say the least, this was the most dog that Daisy (and Mate and I) ever saw.  Daisy was  fascinated and wanted so badly to play.  Fen would have none of it.  Daisy as you can see is about as big as Fen's head.  When he came in the house I heard her bark an octave higher than ever before.  Luckily they got an all clear and did not lose anything.  But it was an adventure for all of us.


Then on Monday, April the 18th, my office mates took me to lunch at Pasqualls (which has the most wonderful soups in the world)I think it may have been a combination of birthday and retirement.  Brad gave me a gift card from Amazon so that I could buy books for the Kindle.  I got it loaded in and all I have to do is chose a book.  There are several I want to buy but I am having a hard time using the card.  I figure when I use it up it will be gone (which if you think about it makes perfect sense)   Never had a gift card before except to eat.  I have learned it is much harder to buy something with a  card than it is with cash.  This is exciting for me.  ......  Took me a few days but I purchased a book recommended in our Sunday paper.  Don't know the author, but it sounded like a good read.  Emily and Einstein.  I have  now  almost finished the book.  It is about a young woman in New York City who is married and her husband is killed in an accident.  He is then reincarnated into a scruffy dog who of course winds up with her.  She thinks it is just a dog. Versions of this story line have shown up in books for years and this one has some unusual twists.  Fun read.  I recommend it.  Wonder if Daisy is reincarnated?   I think not.

My daughter sent me a flower arrangement.  I am not usually a fan of cut flowers but how can a dog lover not love a flower that looks amazing like Daisy.

All in all a grand birthday.  Being 75 is another road to travel toward 76.  Occurs to me that I have been on the journey toward 76 years all of my life.  I just didn't know it would happen this quickly.