A sad day, with a hard lesson.
So I haven’t posted in forever, I guess I’m too easily distracted or maybe I feel that nothing major worth reporting has occurred. Well, on August 3, 2018 I had to put my best friend for the last 12 years down. His name was Big Jim. Big Jim came into my life as a complete and total accident. He literally fell out of the sky and landed in my lap. Actually, I was outside looking for my parents’ beagle when a guy pulled up and asked if I was looking for a dog. He then threw a beagle at me out of his car window. So there I am, standing in the street with a broken, beaten beagle. I loaded him up and took him to a vet, I wasn’t sure why but I knew it was the right thing to do. It turns out Big Jim would be the most expensive, “free” dog I’ve ever owned. We had some good adventures over the next 12 years. We traveled, we explored, we became part of a family with a wife and kids. Big Jim through it all was with me, good times ...
