After a quiet weekend we are beginning another week here. After Rocky’s family left on Friday evening we turned in early…….it began raining during the night and made for wonderful sleeping. It rained most of the day on Saturday and we took the day off……mostly reading, TV and knitting. I managed a few loads of clothes.

Our new little dog, Mandy, did not come house-broke as advertised. Either that or it was just too much of a week for her…….first coming to a new home, going to a new Vet and being run through her physical and grooming……then lots of company and different noises. Somewhere along the line she just didn’t get the idea of being taken outside on a leash……another thing that may have been new to her.

We cleaned up lots of her “gifts” to us and didn’t really have time to get into a schedule where she might become more inclined to our way of thinking. Of all the things a pet can do to be a problem, not being house-broke is the one that tops the list for me. We’ve had very good success already today and things are looking up. Rocky loves Mandy and she is a sweet, sweet little dog.

Yesterday was our fifth wedding anniversary and it hardly seemed possible. I don’t know where all of those days went …….we both feel like honeymooner’s yet. At this time of our life we are going through some things together that most people don’t….he often reminds me that when we married, he wasn’t taking any medication, didn’t have diabetes, a brain tumor, the one seizure, colon cancer or the liver cancer. Of course I jokingly tell him to quit complaining………

The card he gave me made my day. Somehow he always finds the special card that puts his feelings for me into words……..Rocky hasn’t kissed the Blarney Stone and isn’t artistic with words but he sure has a way of getting his feelings through to me. Of course we always relive our wedding day each year….which was memorable in many ways……no more no less than anyone else, but still a day that lives forever in our minds.

Our story goes like this……once upon a time a young boy and girl fell into “puppy love”……a wicked witch cast a spell and they were lost from each other. The boy became a man and raised lots of puppies, hoping it would make him happy, but alas! it didn’t. The girl grew up and always wondered when her prince would come for her…….little realizing the spell that had to be broken. One day the good witch came and told the man where the woman was that he had loved all his life……and when he found her, the spell could be broken if his heart was true.

He thanked the good witch and went in search of his true love and after many days he found her……she had been waiting and waiting to see his dear face one more time. He gave her a gold ring and told her it contained his love that would never end……just as a circle never has an end to it. His heart beat with true love for the woman. They kissed and they were both young again with their life before them….the terrible spell was broken….and..…they lived happily ever after.

Aw, come on…..you knew it was going to have a happy ending, didn’t you? What good are fairy tales if they don’t end the way you want them to? Oh yes, the “plot” was stolen from other writers….don’t call your lawyer….I admit it.

……happily ever after…….I kinda like the ring to that……..

Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther