#TBT

Nov 2005

Abby asleep in this basket I found for her.

I still have this basket.

None of the cats like it to this day.

#TBT

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Angel Abby is joining Pepi Smart Dog for this
week's
THANKFUL THURSDAY blog hop.

Friday Flashback

These photos are all from May of 2013.

Abby finding an easy way to grab a few Temptations.

Yes, I caught you!

My pretty girl in the clean laundry.

Jinx was up on the side laundry hamper.

Gracie jumped up and SURPRISE found him there!

Jinx content no matter what.

#TBT

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Abby nestled in the pillows on my bed

2006

(almost ten years ago...so hard to believe

how quickly times fades away)

#TBT

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Last night on Facebook I found out that Robin 

from Kitten Associates lost her beloved

Gracie to a rare form of cancer.

If you have the chance to stop by 

her BLOG or Facebook if you have an 

account, I know she would appreciate your 

warm thoughts.

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We're late but we're joining PepiSmartDog
for this week's
THANKFUL THURSDAY blog hop.

#TBT with Abby and Gracie

#TBT with Abby and Gracie (in background)

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We're joining PepiSmartDog for this week's

Thankful Thursday blog hop!

#TBT

Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

Today Zee and Zoey have created a special day to honor and remember

"those cherished pets we have lost but not forgotten"

My beautiful Abby.

Who I shall always remember.

With the remainder of my life.

She will always be the one I long 

the most for.

You are somewhere over the Rainbow Abby.

My sweet Gracie.

Lost 6 months after Abby in 2014.

Gracie of the softest fur and kindest face.

I miss you Grace.

But your sister taught me how to let you go.

I know I will see you both again one day.

But I will miss you until I can hold you again.

Please add your post to the Facebook Remembrance page

and also to Zee & Zoey blog hop.

Memories Unhidden -- Thankful Thursday

I've been going back through many of my photo files lately.

Looking at things I haven't been able to see in a long long while.

I came across these photos.

I was using my P&S camera recreating the scene inside

the photo.

There is a website called DEAR PHOTOGRAPH

which is where people submit photos of the past 

into the present.

I chose Abby.

But I didn't realize that Gracie was photobombing me.

Not until today.

I don't have any recollection at all of her doing this.

Usually when I see a photo I remember it happening,

but I don't remember these at all.

It was a bittersweet 'find'.

The photograph above is the one I chose to 

submit to DEAR PHOTOGRAPH

and my blog post about it is HERE.

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We're joining PepiSmartDog for
this week's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.

Carrying You Home

What do you see on the Horizon?

Why do the white gulls call?

Across the sea

A pale moon rises

The ships have come to carry you home.

It's been two years.

24 long months.

 The deep pain of your loss has been replaced by

an even deeper longing 
of the absence of your presence.

I do not know how long this phase of my Grief 

for you will last.

or if...

it will only grow.

I miss you.

It's so simple.

Yet so complex.

I miss you.

More than can be expressed.

I just miss you.

I look for answers and a path

to acceptance of this emotion.

I sit with it

and feel it 

wash over me.

I have forgotten so much.
Too much.

Time does that to our memories.

It tempers them with a hazy fog

maybe to protect us.

But, I long to see your face 

looking into mine

knowing the unconditional love

in your eyes.

I long to sweep you into my arms

and hold you.

One more time.

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INTO THE WEST

Lay down 

your sweet and weary head

Night is falling

You're journey has come to an end

Sleep now

They are calling

From across the distant shores

Why do you weep

What are those tears upon your face

Soon you will see

All your fears will pass away

Safe in my arms 

You're only sleeping

What can you see on the horizon

Why do the white gulls call

Across the sea a pale moon rises

The ships have come to carry you home.

Hope fades

Into a world of night

Through shadows falling

Our of memory and time

Don't say : we have come now to the end

White shores are calling

You and I will meet again

And you'll be here in my arms

Just sleeping

And all will turn

To silver glass

A light on the water

Grey ships pass

Into the west.

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"Still round the corner there may wait

A new road or a secret Gate

And though I oft have passed them by

A will come at last when I

Shall take the hidden paths that run

West of the Moon

East of the Sun"

J.R.R Tolkien

#Throwback Thursday

It's funny how photographs make you remember

something so clearly and cleanly.

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I was sitting in the chair (you can see the fabric folds

of the leg on the edge of the photo) and

Abby came up to me and she is getting ready to 

JUMP

into my lap.

The next photo is of her in my lap.

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Abby was my lapcat.

No question about that.

I miss that about her.

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Nevertheless this is a good memory and

one I am thankful for.

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We're joining Pepi Smart Dog

for this week's Thankful Thursday blog hop.

Beginning of the End

2 years ago,

midday,

you began your

descent.

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I miss you.

Only from the
heart
Can you touch
the sky.
~Rumi

#Throwback Thursday

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We're joining PepiSmartDog for this weeks

THANKFUL THURSDAY.

Find joy in your life today

the moments fly by faster 

than we can count them.

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#tbt The Shoe

From August 2011

It's funny how memories occur.

I can remember this from nearly 4 years ago so clearly.

I thought how adorable she looked

using my outdoor clogs to rest on

She still does.

I still have these shoes.

How I so wish I still had my girl.

Precious memories.

Always.