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Day of the dead 2010

This year I made it a point to go buy some Day of the Dead bread.  Its a small sugar covered load of bread with a skull and cross bones on it. I usually ignore the holiday but this year I just needed to say thanks and remember those who came before me. Relatives and friends who are no longer with us. I sliced the bread and made some hot chocolate and shared it with the kids . I know that I'm a week late on the live post, but its a post.  - Someone told me that a person is not dead until every person that remembers him is dead....This tradition keeps people alive in our hearts for a long time. If I was in Mexico I would have gone to the grave site and cleaned it and put flowers out , but here I think that just sitting and remembering will be ok...

I give you Chaser the wonder dog. ..

 

This year has been a real hard year for us with dogs. In April I had to put Nixon down , he grew old and well had the problems of a very old dog. A little over a month ago I put my other dog Kona down - she had issues that the vets could not find or define. She had gone for 9 days with out eating anything solid. She was only five years old. Both were heart breaking losses.
   The house just seemed cold and empty with out a dog in the house. After some hard searching at the local shelters we found a new dog. His name is Chaser. Part Australian Cattle dog, part lab/pit bull/stegosaurus mix.  He's about a year and a half old and was in the shelter for 145 days before we took him home.     He had "black dog " syndrome... The shelter ladies say that black dogs and cats are teh last to be adopted . The boys have already taken to him and he had taken to the boys really well. We each put our name choice in a hat and drew from it ... I lost , but I'm still happy with the name.  He's quiet and loves bacon....