December 3, 2009

Today was a sad day for Emily.  Her calico cat, Patches, was killed in the early morning hours by a stray dog in the neighborhood. 

This morning, Emily woke early to get ready for a doctor appointment.  She said that she wondered to herself why Patches wasn't sitting in the window to greet her as she did nearly every morning.  She had a call from the doctor's office telling her that her appointment needed to be rescheduled and so she didn't go out quite as early as she had planned.  When she did venture out to get the paper a little after 8, the bench that sits under the kitchen window up on the front porch had been knocked off and was down partly on the steps and partly on the grass.  Her first thought was that someone had tried to break in or was trying to vandalize the house.  Her neighbor told her that a big brown dog had been on the loose in the neighborhood.  She had heard some noise on her front porch about 1:00 in the morning and when she went to the door to investigate and opened her door, the dog ran inside and tried to get to her little tiny dogs.  She was able to get it out of her house, and this morning found Patches in the side yard between her house and Emily's.  Late this afternoon Valdis and his friend Geoff, went by and buried Patches for her.  She's awfully sad about this and very concerned about Plato.  Plato often goes down to "work" at the lawyers office on the corner and often stays gone for a couple of days, but with this dog on the prowl, it's a big concern that he's not been home. 

At lunch today, Emily went out with some women from the church.  It doesn't seem to be a formal thing, but a few of the ladies who like to hang out together go to lunch sometimes.  She is also going to begin attending a Hospice group on grieving at her church next week.  There are several women in the church who have recently become widows, so it will be a group who already know one another and it will be in the comfortable surroundings of her church home. 

This evening Emily and Lynn went to Elmcroft for a Holiday Dinner with Mommy Anne.  Alan was planning to go as well, but he was running a fever this morning and decided it would be best not to go and take the chance of bringing germs in.   It was a lovely buffet dinner with entertainers to provide music.  The couple called themselves "That man and Robin"  They were very entertaining. All in all it was a lovely evening.