Sheila's been gone for awhile now, but people still think
about her fondly. We got home from a show the other night and found a
package in our mailbox. This was inside.
It was from Ashley and her husband Dave and is about the
rainbow bridge that animals cross over when they die, waiting there to meet
us when it's finally our turn. It was such a thoughtful gift.
Ashley was the SPCA person who gave us Sheila in the first place and has
been her dog sitter and groomer for nearly 10 years.
And then yesterday I got this very special book from
Brianna:
It's about an adventure that a dog named Sheila takes into
the forest where she finds a banana tree, climbs it and eats a banana
because she is hungry. I cannot tell you how emotional this made me,
not because of Sheila but because Brianna had made it for me and mailed it
to me. It made me so happy that she had a chance to meet Sheila before
she died.
This morning I made a short video thanking her for the book.
I told her I liked the part about the banana because I like bananas and
asked if she did too. I sent it by text to Tom. This evening I
got a video from Bri telling me that, in truth, she does like
bananas.
I love this relationship that we are forming. She has
written me a couple of things and I can only assume that will increase as
she gets older, and I love writing to her every week. This week I told
her about our trip to Seattle and included a few pictures, especially of the
playground near the Space Needle which has the most amazing slide that I
almost wanted to go on it myself.
It is so clever. You have to climb the
spider-web looking thing to get up to a platform, and then follow that
around on a swinging walkway to the big silver tube, and that is the slide.
Bri is such an athletic thing, I could just see her climbing up and sliding
down over and over again!
I'd undoubtedly do great bodily harm to myself!
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