In Loving Memory

Tic-Toc Tic-Toc. So much to do!!!

We had a great visit with my brother Mike. He treated us to lots of golf, lots of laughs (mostly related to the golf), and we had some tears too.

After we got back from visiting both families, we found our beloved Nutmeg was not eating. We took both dogs to the vet for travel certificates and dental work. Nutmeg’s liver, kidney, and thyroid labs were way out of whack. We hoped it was due to not eating because of her bad teeth but she did not start eating after removing the teeth. We tried force feeding her to get food and medicine in her, but discovered she was just throwing it back up, and that she had blood in her stools. She was also spending all her time alone behind the shed, like she had given up and wanted to pass alone. We decided Saturday to stop force feeding her except to get pain medication in her, and see if she would start eating on her own, and that we would put her down Tuesday after Mike left if she didn’t get better. We returned from golf Monday to find her behind the shed. Nutmeg always loved digging holes in our back yard, now she’s digging holes in God’s garden…and not getting yelled at. I have felt for years that God would take our dogs from us before we move to Haiti, and He has taken 2 of the 3. I never felt sure that Lexy (our Huskey that died 4 years ago), nor Nutmeg would do very well in Haiti with the heat and lots and lots of people and noise.

We have plans every day and every night until we leave next Thursday, all of them good. Now that neither of us are working we seem to have soo much more to do.

We have been laughing about ourselves a lot the last couple weeks. We always have to tell new people that join our short term mission that they have to be “rubber bands” to deal with the changes that come with mission work (If you want to make God laugh, make plans of your own). Our rubber bands are being stretched every which way. The only thing we know for sure is that we are leaving for Florida next Thursday.