silenthunterstudios
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Prayers, smoke and good thoughts requested. Last week, my 15 year old lab pup Beau passed away. He was a good pup and I miss him a lot. Yesterday, my great aunt passed away. We called my grandmother nana, and called my great aunt Aunt Nan. My grandmother was the oldest of about 7 sisters, and my aunt Nan was the most like my grandmother. I love all of my great aunts, but I am closest to my aunt Nan. A friend of mine from work is going into surgery today, a simple surgery but there are complications for her with her diabetes. It hits home with me because of my own struggles with diabetes.
It has been a tough week with the passing of my pup and my great aunt. Both had a good long run, and there are many family members in the hereafter celebrating with her. Boilo, blinis, polka etc. I'd like to think my pup escorted her. She gets to see her husband again, and my pup gets to see my grandmother, she was very close to him, and his buddy Gus, whom he idolized but Gus wanted to eat him. Gus was a golden retriever, and even though I know dogs are colorblind, Beau would go crazy every time he saw a golden. I'm probably anthropomorphisising (sic), but it seems like he thought every golden was Gus.
Everybody in my family tells me I'm so close to my great aunt because she made some kick butt Oreo balls. Yeah I like those, but while my grandmother was quiet and introspective, and my great aunt, while not boisterous like some of my great aunts, was much more gregarious, I still think she was quite like my grandmother. i have a few distant memories of old family parties, weddings, funerals. Our last family reunion was almost 20 years ago, in the small town of Shenandoah PA. It has been my dream to hold a big family reunion when I get a house. All the Lithuanians and Irish from both sides, with a bit of Czech Austrians, Blackfoot, Polish, Scottish tossed in for good measure.
It has been a tough week with the passing of my pup and my great aunt. Both had a good long run, and there are many family members in the hereafter celebrating with her. Boilo, blinis, polka etc. I'd like to think my pup escorted her. She gets to see her husband again, and my pup gets to see my grandmother, she was very close to him, and his buddy Gus, whom he idolized but Gus wanted to eat him. Gus was a golden retriever, and even though I know dogs are colorblind, Beau would go crazy every time he saw a golden. I'm probably anthropomorphisising (sic), but it seems like he thought every golden was Gus.
Everybody in my family tells me I'm so close to my great aunt because she made some kick butt Oreo balls. Yeah I like those, but while my grandmother was quiet and introspective, and my great aunt, while not boisterous like some of my great aunts, was much more gregarious, I still think she was quite like my grandmother. i have a few distant memories of old family parties, weddings, funerals. Our last family reunion was almost 20 years ago, in the small town of Shenandoah PA. It has been my dream to hold a big family reunion when I get a house. All the Lithuanians and Irish from both sides, with a bit of Czech Austrians, Blackfoot, Polish, Scottish tossed in for good measure.
