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Friday Apr 1, 2016 #
Event: OCIN Flying Pig XX
Note
Yesterday, our sweetest beloved boy, one day over 13, left us. On his birthday, he started coughing and two vet visits confirmed his poor little body was experiencing heart failure and extensive cancer. We let him go.
It seemed so sudden - just over Easter he scared off a goose at the in laws. We thought maybe he ate something funny over Easter. But the vets said he was probably getting worse but able to compensate for some time. In hindsight, this might explain his sluggish pace on recent walks - he was also a bit of a lazy pup so we had rationalized it as that.
We are vacillating between wondering if we did what was best and thinking of our many fond memories - a trip to Mackinac where he charmed everyone. A tiny tuxedo on a wedding trip. Seeing his little face in the window driving up to our last house, then watching him turn around and his tail pop up as he went down his stairs to meet us at the door. All the times he ran his treat machine scam, where he'd go outside just to get a treat for coming back inside.
He took so warmly to SuLe when she arrived, never treating her any differently than us. He even tolerated that funny little hyper brown dog when Bella joined our family, reluctantly snuggling on car rides.
I slept next to him on the floor by his crate for his last night for the few hours between the emergency visit and when he woke up. Kimberly and I were with him entirely his last day.
We were able to bury him on the farm next to his Auntie Honey, my mother-in-law's lab.
Here is Mr. Bartleby Bumble, variously Bartleby, Bartles, or my sweet boy, in his happy place, perched on the window seat:
It seemed so sudden - just over Easter he scared off a goose at the in laws. We thought maybe he ate something funny over Easter. But the vets said he was probably getting worse but able to compensate for some time. In hindsight, this might explain his sluggish pace on recent walks - he was also a bit of a lazy pup so we had rationalized it as that.
We are vacillating between wondering if we did what was best and thinking of our many fond memories - a trip to Mackinac where he charmed everyone. A tiny tuxedo on a wedding trip. Seeing his little face in the window driving up to our last house, then watching him turn around and his tail pop up as he went down his stairs to meet us at the door. All the times he ran his treat machine scam, where he'd go outside just to get a treat for coming back inside.
He took so warmly to SuLe when she arrived, never treating her any differently than us. He even tolerated that funny little hyper brown dog when Bella joined our family, reluctantly snuggling on car rides.
I slept next to him on the floor by his crate for his last night for the few hours between the emergency visit and when he woke up. Kimberly and I were with him entirely his last day.
We were able to bury him on the farm next to his Auntie Honey, my mother-in-law's lab.
Here is Mr. Bartleby Bumble, variously Bartleby, Bartles, or my sweet boy, in his happy place, perched on the window seat:
Monday Mar 28, 2016 #
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Ads found their legs, +23 this week, should be over 1000 before mid season. woo woo
Haven Hill's event specific target was fans+their friends, trying just fans for Winnewana.
Haven Hill's event specific target was fans+their friends, trying just fans for Winnewana.
3 PM
Orienteering 2:20:37 6.31 mi (22:17 / mi) +343m 19:04 / mi
ahr:121 max:166 spiked:18/18c
Peach Mountain Round #1.
Spoiler alert: If you have a favorite part of Peach Mountain, you'll probably get to go there! And it will be great, so much runnable woods. Walking was annoying, I need to be free.
Forgot it "closes" at 6 pm which I tried to respect so I left a few for next time.
Exited park a few hundred m from my car, so I remembered I wanted to ingrain pace counting into a sort of low level, continuously operating task, so I practiced that a bit. Now to add that into my in-woods navigation!
Some of the other Ford students ride bikes, so I should be sure to get something road-y in the next month or so for commuting and riding.
Spoiler alert: If you have a favorite part of Peach Mountain, you'll probably get to go there! And it will be great, so much runnable woods. Walking was annoying, I need to be free.
Forgot it "closes" at 6 pm which I tried to respect so I left a few for next time.
Exited park a few hundred m from my car, so I remembered I wanted to ingrain pace counting into a sort of low level, continuously operating task, so I practiced that a bit. Now to add that into my in-woods navigation!
Some of the other Ford students ride bikes, so I should be sure to get something road-y in the next month or so for commuting and riding.
Sunday Mar 27, 2016 #
6 PM
Orienteering 1:56:38 5.53 mi (21:05 / mi) +276m 18:15 / mi
ahr:137 max:197 13c rhr:54 shoes: Roclites 295 2
Preview/vet Waterloo Red. So much good stuff out there.
Got interesting at the end - 2c from the finish, the darkness crept in faster than I expected, also, distant thunder rumbles and rain drops - mind you, I have no bag on my phone or map, and no light, it's around 7:40 pm.
Get very close to last c and there is now lightning reasonably close - horizontal and bright. Rain is starting to pick up. I speed hike to my car, catch my breath, before I make the first turn it's raining heavily.
Got interesting at the end - 2c from the finish, the darkness crept in faster than I expected, also, distant thunder rumbles and rain drops - mind you, I have no bag on my phone or map, and no light, it's around 7:40 pm.
Get very close to last c and there is now lightning reasonably close - horizontal and bright. Rain is starting to pick up. I speed hike to my car, catch my breath, before I make the first turn it's raining heavily.