The doctor will see you now....

It's been a long, rainy week, with a good storm thrown in...my goldfish pond in the front is flooded so it's just as well that the raccoons ate all the fish earlier this year. Otherwise, they would be flopping around in my grass just now. It's also been a hard few few weeks for Michael and I in dealing with this neighbourhood. It's got us down. I don't want to get into it all just now, though. So today, when the blue skies broke through for an hour, it was time to go for a walk, just Eemer and I, and to have a long talk with a good friend.
When the skies are blue, even the puddles are pretty, aren't they? Full of sky and colour. Just up here around the corner, Eem-er and I have a friend we like to talk to. Wanna meet him? He's heard us arrive and is coming to the door.

Eem-er looks forward to meeting and greeting this guy...and he is just as eager to meet her through the fence each time. They have some catching up to do. They haven't seen each other for a couple weeks now.

Smooches. Maybe it's a Beagle thing, cuz Maggie loved horses, too. I had a friend I used to visit with a horse out back of her property. We would get to talking and I would lose track of Maggie. I could always find her out in the pasture, nose to nose, with the old chestnut mare out there. I always wondered what they were talking about, just as I wonder what these two have to say to each other.

And then, he turns to me...hellooooooo there, Friend. I have missed you.
Where have you been?

And we talk...for a good long while. We have meaningful converstations about everything that bothers us, things we love, the weather, the view, the kind of day we've been having. Whatever pops into our minds.

He comforts me.

I can tell him anything...and feel my stress level decrease. I can feel it melting away. It is amazing. I want to take him home with me. I don't want to ride him, or have him pull me in a cart...I just want to talk to him.

He makes me smile.

He tells me things... things that speak to my soul....

...and then he smiles, too. It's hard to leave him when it's time to go. I wish I didn't have to go home without him.

Well, you all have a good weekend. I'll try to do the same.