The usual Saturday started with breakfast whilst watching Tennis from Scotland and then it was time for me to go the the courts and preform miracles of my own…enough said….a great two hours again and like a broken record what a wonderful way to start a day!!!!
Home in time to make lunches for the kids and then off to pick them up…..they love the water park it is a huge well kept complex with about 15 different pools and lots of slides and activities for the kids…..
Andreas….
Love these next two shots!!!
We were there nearly four hours they had the lunches and the fruit and the drinks and of course on the way home an ice cream….as always they are so well behaved and I always enjoy them.
Tonight I took my Spanish teacher Marysol to a one woman play at the new theatre it was a fabulous performance how that woman remembered all her lines is beyond me and a bit of a joy for me accompany a lovely young woman a wonderful evening.
Now home and ending my evening with tea and watching a live hockey game!!!!!
A wise child!!!!
Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife, Lisa, and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle.
I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.
As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.
The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker’s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away.
The little boy seemed to accept Belker’s transition without any difficulty or confusion. We sat together for a while after Belker’s death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives.
Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, “I know why.”
Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next stunned me. I’d never heard a more comforting explanation. He said, “People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life – like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?”
The six-year-old continued, “Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don’t have to stay as long.”
Yashi Kochi!!!!!
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