Life of Pol

For those of you who do not know, our Buster boy passed away. It happened very fast. One day we noticed he was walking strangely, and three weeks later, he is gone.  He had cerebral myopathy (that is probably spelled wrong), but his brain stopped telling his legs what to do. There were additional things going on with Buster that made it clear what the right thing to do would be. It was the most difficult thing we've ever had to do.  They say each day will get better, but that's not true. 

So, once again I wake up in a good mood, and within minutes of turning on the TV, I'm brought down to sadness by the news of another senseless shooting.  People are all pissing and moaning because they think their gun rights will be taken away. It's not so much about your right to have a gun, it's more about keeping the guns out of the hands of the fucking lunatics that carelessly take lives and leave so much heartache in their wake.

Well, at least we can now say that we've done it once.  To celebrate our 24th anniversary, Steve and I drove to the top of Pikes Peak. It took about an hour, and at times was pretty nerve racking. But there were some pretty spectacular views when it wasn't too scary to look down.  It was cool, too, because we were able to see our cabin from 14,000 feet!  And after we got back down and were home, it was the cherry on top to be able to look out our back door and see what we just drove up.

Thank you to all of those who gave their lives so that we may live a better life.

As the sun comes over the mountain on another beautiful morning, I am once again thankful for this new life. We still get snow showers every few days, but when the sun comes out, it melts away pretty quickly. It's just one of the things we deal with in order to live in this magical place.  I have been writing, writing, writing! I've finished the final installment of the Serpenteens  series. Steve read it and finished yesterday. He loved it!  It's going through two more edits and then will be published. We can't wait for everyone to experience it, too.