Since the theme is posting images of those dear to us, I thought I'd post a picture of Jake.
We have two dogs now who are beloved pets. Buster a lab/chow mix that if human would be Jethro Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies movie
star handsome and in training to be a "Double-naught Spy", and Lucky, a lovely wirehair terrier/basset mix who if human would say:
"I don't eat meat cause I'm a vetrenarian" Yep. Beloved but really that dumb.
And then there was Jake. While he was alive the two above were
HIS pets.
Jake used to go flying with me often. He'd sit in the back seat as if it were a stationwagon look out for a while and then go to sleep. He could count-if it involved how many pieces of ham you'd put back in the refridgerator. He was a fixture at the local airport and would lie in the grass beside the taxiway while planes taxiing for takeoff
cast their shadows on him and snooze away. He would somtimes do
his "I want to go out" routine and when you got up to let him out, he'd jump into the place you occupied on "
his" sofa. He left us in 1999 but is here everyday in our hearts.
