How come...
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originally uploaded by Koratcats.It's a year, today. I've been thinking about it all week. Time flies, I guess. I was shocked to realize it. It feels like yesterday, I guess, because even after all this time it feel so sudden. I still half expect to see him meet me at the door. I still expect to walk in the woods with the dogs and have him loping along with a pack of Corgis darting to and fro underneath him.
I still miss him.
I miss his smile, his trick of shaking hands and having me go, "No, the other one" and handing me the other paw every time I said it. I miss his big old soft ears, his big feet, his head like a bear. I miss that he was such a softy that everyone loved him.
I even miss buckling him into his harness and setting out and him screaming like a banshee when he tracked. I didn't miss it when he did it, but I miss it now. I miss the fact that he could find a ball any place any time, even in places you were like -- wow, where did you find that?
Simon still misses him too. Shepherds make him smile - there was a big old one when we went to wash the car today wandering around, and of course he came up and realized the car drags around pet goodies in it. He poked his head in, and Simon realized he was there and started wagging and got up on the seat - no barking. He seems to look at every Shepherd with an eagerness... almost expectant.
Some folks think dogs don't remember -- but they do, they remember. :) Like today, it makes me smile that he does, and I know we always will.