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healthy,happy and peaceful new year to all. May we have many interesting topics to discuss this coming year
smitty195 Member # 5102
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Happy New Year to you, to, train lady. I hope everyone has a great (and SAFE) evening. Please don't drink and drive.
MDRR Member # 2992
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"CHEERS" everyone.
cubzo Member # 4700
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And cheers to all here. This a great evening to stay home and avoid those getting on the freeway going in the wrong direction.
It is too late for this tonight but it works on any night. Drunk drivers tend to be overly cautious. They tend to hang in the right lane. If they are going the wrong way on a freeway then their right lane is really the left lane. So if driving late at night avoid the left lane.
And cheers to all.
Henry Kisor Member # 4776
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Smitty, you would have been proud of me. I neither drank nor drove and was asleep by 8 p.m. Of course, I had some help -- still recovering from a total knee replacement.
Happy 2012 to all, and may we all ride the rails early and often.
smitty195 Member # 5102
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Ouch, Henry! I have heard that this is a fairly uncomfortable recovery. I hope you are back on your feet and healed quickly.
Happy New Year!
sbalax Member # 2801
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Henry--
Good wishes for a speedy recovery! Remember to do everything that the physical therapists tell you to do.
All--
Best for a Happy and Healthy 2012!
Frank in sunny and warm SBA
mr williams Member # 1928
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And all the very best for 2012 from all of us across the pond!
ehbowen Member # 4317
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I'm afraid that the new year did not start well for me. I don't want to hijack the thread, but it involves an old dog and the last visit to the vet.
Hope your start to the year was happier.
smitty195 Member # 5102
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I'm sorry to hear that, Eric. I have a friend who just had the same thing happen over the holidays. Our pets our are family, and when we lose one, it's pretty terrible. I hope you're doing okay. There is a good book about a guy who lost his dog. It's called, "Rescuing Sprite" by Mark Levin. He almost quit his job and went into seclusion over it, but he's doing better now. Time is a good healer.
Ocala Mike Member # 4657
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Sorry to hear of your loss, Eric. The upside of pets is the unconditional love and loyalty they show us, while the downside is the indisputable fact that we almost always outlive them.
Read John Grogan's "Marley and Me" if you haven't already or see the movie, now three years old already. Pay attention to the Theodore Shapiro score or, better yet, just get the soundtrack recording.
Here's the most emotional cut on it, "It All Runs Together," played during the most tearjerking scene in the film:
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My sympathies on your loss, Eric.--Sojourner
Henry Kisor Member # 4776
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My sympathies, Eric. Last summer I lost Hogan, the half-Lab who was my best friend for 11 years, and the hole in my heart is still deep and wide. It will mend, as will yours, but the process takes quite a while.
train lady Member # 3920
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I am so sorry Eric. We lost 2 of our beloved dogs and still miss them. they really are a member of the family.
Ira Slotkin Member # 81
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Just catching up on the past months posts and saw yours, Eric. The poem below is something I wrote for a friend some 10-12 years ago when he lost his long time companion. Hope this piece brings you some comfort.
Ira
Navigation Aide (for Vincent Harding in memory of Nayah)
I do not know just where we go when we leave this mortal realm, I’m not certain of the seas I’ll sail, or who’ll be at the helm; But I do believe that at my side, in calm or storm or fog, Will be this critter I have loved and for whom I now grieve: my dog.
I may spend eternal summers beside a babbling brook, I may get to be heaven’s librarian in a room with favorite books, Perhaps I’ll be with family settled on some distant, peaceful shore, But best of all - I’ll see my critter, and get to nuzzle her once more.
I’ll feel her beloved cold wet nose; I’ll hear that plaintiff bark And be glad that there were dogs among the animals on the ark; ‘Cause I would not have lived as well, nor heard one of life’s sweetest songs Had I not had the sounds of my dog around me for so long.
In days to come I’ll hear her pant, or sense her standing by my side, And though physically she’ll not be there, she’ll always be my trusted guide; Eventually I won’t hurt as much -- painful sorrow and mourning end -- Yet I’ll always cherish memories of my companion and my friend.
I do not know just where we go when we leave this mortal realm, I’m not certain of the seas I’ll sail, or who’ll be at the helm; But I do believe that at my side in calm, or storm, or fog, Will be this critter I have loved and for whom I now grieve: my dog.
Henry Kisor Member # 4776
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Beautiful, Ira. Just beautiful.
palmland Member # 4344
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Wow, I had to go give my dog, Tallulah, a hug after reading that poem.
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