Our dear Chewy has been gone for almost exactly 5 months now. I am over the tears, however still think of her every day, wishing she didn’t have to go so soon… Murphy misses her, I miss her, the kids miss her. In fact, they had a little visit to her ‘grave’ during the nice spring weather yesterday.
I mean, seriously look at that face… awwww such a sweet sweet girl she was…
Our youngest daughter talks a lot about Chewy being ‘dead’ now.. and how she’s in Heaven with God and Jesus, and that she looks forward to seeing her again. She has asked a few times if she could go to Heaven now.. and for a three year old this sure is a difficult to explain topic. She understands now, after MUCH communication that you can’t just GO to Heaven.. because you can’t come back when you do.
I’m not sure why, but, Little Girl has this idea that Heaven is this Brick Retirement Home that is near our house. The building is large and in my opinion, while it is quite pretty, it is fairly creepy looking. It’s a long three story dark brick building set up on a large hill…
Every single time we have driven by that place, since the day Chewy died, she has said that Chewy is in Heaven, and then over time, she pointed out that THAT Brick building is Heaven, and that Chewy is there… She has asked to visit this building because she thinks Chewy is there.. We cannot drive by this place without a discussion on Heaven, Death, Chewy etc. On days when I don’t want to ‘deal’ so to speak I find myself driving a different way so we don’t have to pass ‘Heaven’… but today when we went by… I noticed some green in the grass, some flowers peeking up from the ground and started thinking Heaven didn’t look so creepy afterall… I hope Chewy likes it there…
Categories: Chewy · Dogs on Thursday
The winter is officially past us… and typically I take my Christmas cactus into a ‘rest period’ where it’s not watered and just left on the windowsill for a period of time to ‘rest’ before the spring growth period.. I say usually because this is our first time in a colder climate.. I say our meaning, me and my three cactus plants… 
The window sill I use for my plants is basically the only location that gets good sun in the winter since the leaves are not yet on the trees… but I also use this windowsill as a dumping ground (along with my kitchen counter and the kitchen table, and the laundry machine… well… you get the idea).. I’m a piles person.. and the piles had stacked up on the window sill until last week when I finally cleaned them off to get ‘ready’ for Easter Since I’d been ignoring the plants on the sill, I hadn’t really ‘looked’ closely at them… but wouldn’t you know it… the silly things think it’s time to bloom again!
One of my plants is a pretty pastely pink… and the other a bright fuscia… and both bloomed at Christmas this year.. I know I posted picks of them at some point.. I’ll go back and look for them…
The fuscia one didn’t bloom as well as usual, but now she’s loaded with blooms… yet another bright spot in what started out as a rather bleak week!
And yesterday… wow… the temps were so nice… I spent 3 hours in the afternoon working in the yard.. I raked, and clipped and trimmed and raked and raked and raked… and then I thought about Cass as I loaded the rakings and clippings into our plastic bin and then lugged it deep into our woods and dumped it… oh the fun. The hilarious part is… there’s only one small corner of our backyard that is now ‘leaf’ free… ONE SMALL CORNER…
Thank goodness I like yardwork!
You’ll start to see my knitting productions dropping off quick now.. In Spring and Summer, I still love to knit, but I like to get my fingers dirty in the soil… and dirt and yarn just don’t mix well together
Categories: Garden
