4/13/22

Ahhhhh…..a nice relaxing day off. I accomplished many things. I called Medicaid, to get some answers. I got the run around with that, which I expected, but I also got answers.

I did some yard work. Finished packing. 

The day turned stressful when I was outside gardening. Jiminy was following Penny around…with his one eye. I saw Penny head around the back of the house. I saw Jiminy follow her. He stays close. 

I saw Penny come back around the house……..waiting…..waiting….. no Jiminy. I get up to see where he went…..no Jiminy. I start to walk around the house, scanning the yard for him. Nothing. 

Jiminy is a dog that follows close and barely gets 5 feet away, unless he follows Penny. He’s close to me, or close to Penny. 

I knew a hawk didn’t get him because I had scanned for hawks when we were coming outside. Also, there was no noise. No scream, no bark…..no noise.

I then began jogging around the house calling him. I looked in our pond, I looked in the neighbors pond. I looked in the road, the ditch. Could I have accidentally let him in the house? I checked the house, the garage, under the deck, in the woods. 

What do I do? My heart was breaking and it was hard to breathe. Tears just came pouring out of my eyes. I called some friends to have them help. They stopped what they were doing and rushed to my side. Great people! All of them.

Finally, as I was skimming the woods, a man pulled up and asked if I was missing a dog. “YES!”.

Jiminy had wandered down several houses and one of our neighbors, whom I had never met, was trying to catch him. He was panicked! I was panicked! At first he ran away from me. Then I grabbed him. Ugh!  I hated all the moments I experienced. Every last one. He was gone about 40 minutes.

I was nauseous for a good hour after that. Thinking about all the things that could have gone wrong. Little Jim slept really well after that. 

What a beautiful peak at summer today. Mother Nature really did some good work.