AZ Day 9

A day with Pat and Eddie. First, I want to say how great Eddie looks. The first time I came down to visit with them, Eddie had been very ill and was recently hospitalized. I think the second time I came down, Eddie just had his knee operated on. Since then, he lost over 60 lbs and started walking every day. I am amazed and elated at how great he looks. And, because he is nearly back to his old self again, he is also king of the kitchen. As he called it, it’s his playground. If my pictures make me look fat, it’s because Eddie fed me too much good ol’ homemade southern cooking.


We were going to go to the park where Eddie takes his walks, but it poured all day. This made my walks with Hope about as quick as we could possibly make them, which also ended up being about once every two hours to keep her from pee’ing on Pat and Eddie’s carpeting. Sigh!

Pat’s neighborhood is overrun with stray dogs and/or owned dogs that roam. Some are quite menacing – especially the St. Bernard/GP monster. They roam the neighborhood in packs of three or more and, I noticed on nearly every one of our walks, BU made sure he was between us and them. He would chase them off barking at them, but never, ever left our side. He truly is an amazing little creature. Unfortunately, he was nowhere around when we were taking all of our goodbye pictures. I’ll have to ask Pat to take a picture of him for me.

Basically, the day consisted of eating, crashing in the living room shooting the breeze and watching TV, and taking Hope out for her many, many quick walks. Although we were stuck indoors because, at times it rained so hard it sounded like the roof was going to cave in, I had a good visit with Pat and Eddie. I brought Olly into the house during my stay. He stayed in the bedroom and ventured out into the hallway once or twice, especially when I went into the bathroom which was right next to the bedroom, but he wasn’t too keen on staying in the living room with us. He did OK, though, for a guy who is usually afraid of his own shadow.

Hope's usual spot sleeping on the sofa. Eddie is in the background:

 
Hope waiting for a snack -- the snack being a few day's old baby squirrel that Pat is rehabbing:
 

Two pictures of Pat and Hope: