“CANCER (June 22 – July 23):
With the sun and Venus in your sign you are sure to achieve something worthwhile. You can also be sure that past efforts will be fully rewarded, if not immediately then certainly by the start of next week. Life is good and about to get even better. “ My kind of horroscope.
June 24, 2016
This time 11 years ago, I was in the car, the precursor to La Tomato, Grasshopper. Yes indeed, without a leash, but with all sorts of other dog accoutrements to return with Lucy. Returning home, from Augusta Maine, driving there and back in the same day. OFF I went, heart broken, as my Libby, the perfect dog, had died. Was going to get what would be come my “wild” child. Lucy has had a glint in her eye since the day she arrived. You can still see it, when she wants the cookie but not the task.
She has been a joy, a bundle of energy, even still. Her first walk in a rest area just outside Bangor with a borrowed orange leash. Her first collar being borrowed from her predecessor, her collar colour was to be orange after that. The customs agent asking if we were both Canadian. Introducing her to Murphy whom was not to pleased with the new addition. He too being orange. Many memories all catalogued here in the daily diatribe. Both come to think of starting the same year.
Yesterday we still sought after, briefer for both, after a full day of chores, the badgers, or groundhogs that have dug tunnels down by the river. Guests from France, on a tight schedule, being on holiday they left mid sentence to get on the road to go up the road to meet another bed and breakfast owner who dresses in period costume. (There are limits to my hospitality.) Thus and so, led to binge cleaning, Floors washed, beds made, laundry done, lawns mowed, recycling flung to the end of the driveway. Bottles recycled too~. The usual.
The street signs are up and out, the one driven over by an SUV on the front lawn to keep an eagle eye on the bent and twisted announcement of accommodations’ within. Torrential rain cleaned them up. Today we are blue skiing, warm temps, life as indicated above is a bout to get better. “”Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell, Moi and the magnificent Lucy P