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Today

Today, March 28…it is Karl’s birth day. It was some 7 weeks from his birth day that he came to be with me and his cat brother, Gus, but we always celebrated the day he was born as well as the day he came home.

It is also 16 weeks exactly since Bear’s first TPLO – his right leg surgery.

So today we celebrate Karl’s birth and Bear’s 16 week post op – right leg – a GOOD day!

AND…FedEx brought a gift to help in all…

Last week, I ordered 2 prints “on wood” from Simply Color Lab. Simply Color Lab is my go to lab for prints, gallery canvas prints and now prints on wood.

I am so very pleased with the prints on wood.

They made me cry, but with joy and with pleasure.

I’m not sure this is the best place for these…I think they need a space that allows a little more space…

I’ve found, that for me, sometimes I need to live with things for a bit before I know where they belong.

For now, these dear reminders of my dear Karl – they are in a good place.

Sixteen weeks for the right leg and Two and a half weeks for the left leg.

We had a good day of walks.

And time outside with Bob.

Today.

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Karl

“What the heart has once known, it never forgets” author unknown

Dear Karl. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of this good dog. I am grateful for every moment we shared together. I feel his presence often and am sure that he whispers in Bear’s ear now and again. Always in my heart and mind, until we meet again dear Karl.

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Beardog Point: aka Beardog sweet spot v1.2

Mid-October, Bear found the Beardog sweet spot.

Lately, as the weather has turned warmer, I’ve been letting him be and find who he is in this place with me.

Bear has found the Beardog sweet spot… the overlook to the game trail and the road. It is the spot that was Karl’s favorite to keep watch.

Today, after a busy morning in town which included a favorite walk behind Costco, we came home to a sunny and warm afternoon. Bear secured the property perimeter and then enjoyed an hour keeping watch…

…from Beardog Point.

**I have decided that I will scatter Karl’s ashes just below Beardog Point. When, I don’t know. There will be a day and time that is right for that. Bear will be part of it as Karl was part of the scattering of Zack’s ashes on the overlook on Big Mountain Road.

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All the colors of the rainbow

Yesterday (Thursday) morning…looking down the driveway…beautiful, colorful sky.

I turned around to see the gold larch against a sky turning blue.

It made me think: rainbow! The colors of a rainbow all around me.

From the frost on the ground, to the green and gold of the pines…to the blue and white of the snow covered mountains.

As I wrote last night, the day was quintessential Fall: crisp, cool, clear air, the low light from the southern moving sun that casts a gold light over everything. Everything about the day bespoke Fall.

Last night was the full moon. The moon was to rise just after sunset. Bear and I went out to the loop overlook to wait…to wait for the full moon rise.

There was quite a show of color…

…all the colors of the rainbow spread across the valley between the foothill we live on and the steps of the Swan Range.

Venus showed first, giving a clue to where the moon would rise.

Dusk fell. It got darker.

The moon lit a small cloud just over the mountain top.

It was getting too dark to be where we were. Bear was such company. He usually wants to be on the property more than where I was waiting, but he stayed and watched with me. It made me cry as it brought up a memory of Karl waiting with me in the snow the first Winter in this place. But it also made me smile and laugh in joy with how far Bear and I have come and what a good life I’ve had with my good dogs.

All the colors of the rainbow… shared…in the love and company of my good dog.

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Beardog sweet spot

There are times when Bear does things that are so like Karl that I just stop breathing, literally losing my breath.

It is an odd reaction so sudden and overpowering.

It has just been in the last two weeks that Bear has taken to lying down in the yard after we’ve walked or played.

Just relaxing, watching, sniffing without needing to be always on the move in the woods.

And today, he found Karl’s favorite overlook: the spot behind and to the south of the house – the spot that looks over the game trail and to the road. My chair is not far away. In the house, from the sunroom where my office is, or the kitchen, I could see Karl and now Bear.

Beardog sweet spot.