Spring Break

By the time I write this (meaning after 9:46 a.m.), spring will have sprung. Always my favorite season. Despite the emergent ticks, despite the storms that pass through, despite the mud, the rain, the lateness of the growing season, despite it all, spring remains my special girl.  I love her colors, I love the changes that happen all in the course of three months. Spring moves things forward. You can see why that would appeal to me!

This afternoon marks the beginning of Spring Break for the kids, and the plan is for the parents to drive Snowdrop straight from school to the airport, where I will meet up with her and she and I will make our way to France. Her choice, and I'm glad. She and I have done a lot of exploring -- southern Europe and northern too. I am so in the mood for staying with the known (at least known to me) and not filling our week with curiosities and question marks. 

The morning would be busy for most people needing to pack, to prepare, but I've decided to take things slowly -- to keep Sadey in a good mood. And she is that. We walk, she barks only a couple of times, she eats, I eat. 

 

  

 

I've prepacked her food, her bag of toys (how she loves those toys!) so that she doesn't see me doing this weird stuff. My pillow girl! 

 

 

 

Switching to my own favorite couch, once I sit down there. 

 

 

 

Well you might ask -- but what's happening to Sadey? Well, for the next week or so she is going to camp. She has over-nighted there once already. I'm hoping she wont remember that that time she was with Henry. Now she is alone. Though with plenty of dogs around her!

She is easier to bring inside. She doesn't have Henry's stubborn sit-down-and-wont-budge approach. Trusting girl... Oh, I hope she has a good week there!

And what in the long run? Well, I had a great plan for her, but those involved did not agree to it, rejecting her outright for reasons that I definitely find objectionable. I have an alternate plan which will require some more talking and figuring out, but of course, if that too falls through, she remains with me and I will gather my energies to work through her issues on my own. There's a good chance of success after all. No guarantees, but a chance. True, I'd rather not take this on, but on the other hand, I know my girl well and perhaps I can work up the courage and strength once again. We will see.

In the meantime, I'm off. Madison to Detroit, Detroit to France. Ed will drive me and mind Sally's House. It's good weather for flying. Of course it is. It's spring!

with so much love...