Wordless Wednesday: Ruby Rose.
Tag: Ruby
One Liner Wednesday on Thursday.
“I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.”― Bill Murray (actor)
Almost a year and we still miss her 💜💜
Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 30th, 2024
Hi sorry I am late, here is what LindaGHill’s email said yesterday. ”Well, this is it. Your thirtieth regular daily prompt for Just Jot it January 2024. I chose the word of the day myself. I’ll be back tomorrow with the final prompt of the month—the combination One-Liner Wednesday/JJJ24. And then, of course, we’ll have the wrap-up/we did it/where the heck did the time go post. So stay tuned!“
“Your prompt for JusJoJan January 30th, 2024 is “calendar.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
Today I looked at the calendar and I thought how busy last month has been ….but as from today and well into February I am going to be even busier! So I am taking the chance to apologise in advance for the fact that a lot of the February posts may be late, as is this post for JusJoJan, a day late, and also I maybe slow in commenting on your post and reading those comments on my posts.
Anyway why is the calendar so full? After the death of our beloved Ruby in April last year we have found our lives empty and a bit rudderless. So we grieved.
Well two months ago we took the plunge we decided to apply to become foster careers for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Our Ruby was a Guide Dog and we took her for her free run sessions as soon as she was working. She retired at 6 yes old and came to live with us for another seven years.
As it happened we had a big Red Letter day back in October we had our interview, we were accepted and vetted and were invited for training, which we passed.
Yesterday our first boarder arrived! Aya a beautiful black two year old Labrador. Aya is rather nervous and reactive to dogs when she is on the lead and noises and people passing windows can easily spook her. That said she is loving, and calm in the house and she has settled in very well .
Although Aya has past her training she is not going to be a guide dog. Her nervousness on the lead would make it impossible. She will be rehomed as a pet and she will make a perfect one of those. The day she is rehomed will be a red-letter day on her calendar!
As I said Aya is going back to her long term fosterer on 12th February in the Morning and out two gorgeous grandsons are coming here to stay for three days, then we are out with friends, then the whole are off to visit our eldest son in his new home ! Yes My Calendar is full.
Wordless Wednesday : Gone to the dogs . It would of been Ruby’s 14th Birthday on Wednesday 17th.
Tuesday Tanka. Early Cold Season Part 2.
Early Cold (January 5 – 20) Shokan 小寒
Welcome to the 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday!
The 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #Tanka Tuesday continues with the second week of the Early Cold season. This week’s writing invitation is to compose a haibun using the kigo words and phrases from the Early Cold Part I challenge post.
Walking at First Light
I still miss her, following at my heels. In the early morning. She wrapped in her double fur coat, me shivering. We’d traipse the fields, the birds looking for food on the hard cold earth. She never threatened them curious she’d check out where they pecked. Now I greet the winter dawn alone these days, the crows still forage.
cold light breaks
wrapping my coat close
crows forage
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Aug. 26, 2023
Its Saturday and time for Linda G Hill‘s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. The email prompt arrived yesterday and said: “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “tune.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!“
This week we are dancing to a different tune, yes indeed. We are looking after our friend’s guide dog Quala. They are away on a holiday with the children and Quala is with us. It is strange how quickly you can get get attuned to a different dog…and believe me they are all so different. Quala is similar in looks to Ruby though not as blond and it’s surprising how different her character is . Both dogs trained to the same ridged standard yet they all have their own quirks.
Quala has her own routine and has quickly retuned ours! We do still miss Ruby but having Quala here is lovely, they were great friends and Quala’s owner always says Ruby made Quala the excellent guide dog she is today. Our chance meeting with our dogs those years ago was very fortunate. A dog’s love is worth a fortune .
Wordless Wednesday , how to spend a summer’s day.
Ronovan Writes SIJO Wednesday Poetry Challenge #63. Use PET as your inspiration this week.
Yes honest and true and loyal were you always by my side.
You taught me so much , through thick and thin you respond to my touch.
I miss your brown eyes, the feel of your soft coat and wet nose so much.
#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 317, 4/25/23
WELCOME TO #TANKATUESDAY!
短歌 火曜日
This week for Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka prompt , after last week’s well deserved excesses for her Birthday Colleen said: “Let’s go back to our roots and write a tanka poem (or two, or three) this week. I want you to find your own inspiration. Choose a photo, take a photo, share a walk with us… or a moment in time that was important to you. Capture this moment in a tanka or two.”
Tanka are written in a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure, or s-l-s-l-l. Tanka consists of 5 lines written in the first-person point of view from the perspective of the poet. The third line is considered your “pivot,” but let it happen anywhere, or exclude it. It is not mandatory. If you use a pivot, the meaning should apply to the first two lines, as well as the last two lines of your tanka. Tanka is untitled and does not rhyme.
I saw the seasons change
in Spring we walked the woods then
watched the summer bloom
feet and paws plod happily
through Autumn and Winter trails.
They grew up with you
you taught them to be gentle
to love and be kind
grandchildren on life’s journey
nature’s taken you too soon
You were heaven sent
made of the stuff of stars
now you have returned
you are now cosmic stardust
you will live on in our hearts.
A visit to the Bar and a Chat with Dan and Co.
Good morning everyone I wanted to let you all know that I have been invited over to meet Dan Antion at No Facilities for a chat about the new book Poetry Treasures 3 and my small part in the Anthology.
We have a guest at the bar today, so I need to work out Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt in this brief, well brief for me, opening.
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