Hiatus

After a few weeks of non-blogging, I am back. And, today my toenails are not green, like in my profile, but blue. Literally. Because last Friday our Wheaten Terrier, Guinness, died in a tragic drowning accident. And I felt blue, so had the toes painted to match.

We will never know what happened. All we do know is that Guinness was very old, getting deaf and blind and had a seizure disorder. After being let out at 4AM to go to the bathroom since he couldn't make it through the night anymore, he did not return. Most likely, he had a seizure and stumbled and fell down onto the dock and into the water of the canal. He never went near the canal in normal circumstances, but after a seizure he was temporarily blind and half conscious. And, so debilitated by age that he wouldn't have been able to swim very far, if at all. A neighbor spotted him far from our home in the main canal leading to the open ocean. Harry and some wonderful people in a boat rescued his body. Although we knew his "days were numbered, it was a very painful way to lose him.