gone with the smoke

Very good advice Sven!

Sorry to hear your riding partner is gone, Sven.

Peter Pan - 11/21/2011 4:33 PM

... enjoy your friends with 2 and 4 legs as long and often you can. there will come days when you will be missing ... .. enjoy every moment you have got.

Sorry for the loss of your sidecar riding buddy. And good advice. Sidecar rigs are great tools for enhancing our relationships and enjoying life.

Thanks for your condolations;
Camilla had a good long life and she grew up all 4 the leged puppies in the farm including the cats.
Until recently she had the first health issues beside a tumor we preferred not to operate.

What I try to learn hard myself, is:" Get the dreams and ideas out of the head and get them realized."
That is easier done at the job then in private life, where routine and lack of free time are the worst enemies of inner peace.
It is needed to take the time and break out of routine.

Since the rig came into the family something has improved and after each finished job I continue first a private project several hours before working for clients again.
Earlier or later that way dreams will come true. And why not the big ride to Alaska too.....
Here we go
Sven

Sorry to hear that Sven. It's times like this that remind us nothing ever remains the same forever as we tend to think when caught up in a daily routine... Your thoughts and perspective are very good.

Sven, I'm sorry to hear it.

I believe that dogs really are, quite literally, our best friends.

In case you have not heard of the story of "Old Drum" I am posting a link for you. I have found that reading over that story has helped me a bit when I've lost one of my dogs. Perhaps you'll like it as well:

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hunting/2010/01/case-old-drum-inspiring-story-every-dog-owner-should-know

Here's my favorite quote from the Drum story:

"If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death".

That's a great story Bill. After reading it I passed it far and wide among my friends. Thank you.

Sven - I'm so sorry for your loss.

Tom, I'm a sucker for dogs, that's all.

I have had to say farewell to too many of my four-legged friends over the years, and it never gets any easier. On one such occasion, a good friend passed the Old Drum story on to me. Since then, I've felt that those words from George Vest said in that courtroom always seem to help me during the sadder times, and so I try to pass that story along when I see a fellow dog owner is hurting.

Here's a few of my buddies:

As somebody, who grew up on in a village on farms, I am someone who allways had dogs, cats and what ever with 4 legs and glibbery fins arround. 6 1/2 years national service, university and town living were nasty without a companion. Since we got the farm dogs and cats came and went continously. Now 18 or 19 dogs in 21 years lived here with us. Sadly 5 were killed by nasty unrevieled neighbours. but there are always few you got as your favorate. Camila was one of the 3 beloved ones perhaps simmular to Archie for Tom. Even the neighbour gave a few flowers to plant on her grave. (Funny when you talk about someone,... she just called in this moment)

Nothing stays stable everything moves, or in the words of a Vietnam vet I met in Nevada once: " Remember, you live now!"
Its important to live the moment und not to become too sad about things that happened to you .... or will never happen....
As my Norton Commando sadle boxes said:
"Don't take life so seriously, its only temporary!"

Keep them alive in memory, but don't forget to live on.