In only a few short hours Yale and I will begin our journey out of the safety net of The Seeing Eye. It’s a perfect example of “One door closes and another opens.” I walked my last route down South Street after having ice cream at The Creamerie with many of my classmates. It was a lovely way to celebrate the end of class, dogs lying quietly by our ( Read more... )

The time has flown since my last entry here. Between working with Yale, a bit of socializing and just being tired, I got behind. So it’ll take a bit of remembering to document everything and I might miss things…especially the food piece ( Read more... )

It’s the end of another cold day here at The Seeing Eye. It’s supposed to warm up a bit tomorrow which will be lovely as the past three days have been unpleasant ( Read more... )

I’m starting this entry on a very cold Saturday morning. I hear that there will be snow this morning. That will make working Yale a bit more challenging but I think we’re up for it ( Read more... )

I was just too tired last night to write a daily update. So I’ll do two days in one as I need to stay awake and dressed until the final time we take the dogs out for their last “park” time ( Read more... )

It’s the evening before “dog day”. The energy here in class is high. There are mixed emotions. New students here are apprehensive. People who recently had to retire a dog are nervous, excited and yes a bit sad as there have been many reasons why we are here ( Read more... )

It’s been forever since an update other than therealljidol entries. But it’s a new year and a new guide dog will be arriving soon. So I will be writing frequent updates to document my training experience here at The Seeing Eye. I will be training with my 8th guide dog, my 4th from Seeing Eye ( Read more... )