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I’m also linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly @Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

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Some chit chat.

Well, it’s not been much fun for me recently. Firstly a hand injury has kept me from doing much of anything on my computer. I can at least work while wearing a brace to keep movement restricted but it is very painful. And then I had to put my dog, Quigley to sleep. I’d had him for 15 years. He was dumped inside the fence of my back yard as a pup and was the best sweetest boy. I feel his absence all of the time. When I reach over to rub his ears. When I come in the door and look for him to peer up at me from his favorite spot on the couch. For him to look in at me through the window when he wants let back inside. And when he comes over and lays his head on my knee to have his cheeks rubbed. I was there when he took his last breath, and as hard as that was, I’m glad I was with him.  I recall something I’d read once in an Ann Lander’s column and thought I’d share it with you.

A DOG`S PLEA

Treat me kindly, my beloved friend, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for kindness than the loving heart of me.

Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I might lick your hand between blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me learn.

Speak to me often, for your voice is the world`s sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when the sound of your footstep falls upon my waiting ear.

Please take me inside when it is cold and wet, for I am a domesticated animal, no longer accustomed to bitter elements. I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth.

Keep my pan filled with fresh water, for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst.

Feed me clean food that I may stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life, should your life be in danger.

And, my friend, when I am very old and I no longer enjoy good health, hearing and sight, do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having any fun. Please see to it that my life is taken gently. I shall leave this Earth knowing with the last breath I draw that my fate was always safest in your hands.

Stay safe and take care!

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Other posts on my blog this week.

The Spectacle Of Souls by Jessica Julien ~ Excerpt and Giveaway

The Magdalene Deception by Gary McAvoy ~ Excerpt and Giveaway

Death At High Tide ~ An Island Sisters Mystery by Hannah Dennison

Peachy Scream ~ A Georgia B&B Mystery by Anna Gerard

The Other Side Of The Looking Glass by Kathleen Harryman

Books From The Back Log #50 ~ Dark Rising

The Friday 56 #227 ~ In The Blue Hour

All Done With It ~ A Dreamwalker Mystery by Maggie Toussaint

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