I miss her in the morning when she would either wake us with "face sugars" or with the sound of her toenails clicking happily on the wood floors as she moved through her merry breakfast dance.
Labradors live to eat and Katy was no exception to this endearing characteristic. "Breakfast", "dinner" and "treat" were her favorite words! Her tummy always knew the time to the minute. At 5:00 p.m., she would sit and stare at you as if to say - "Hello, don't you have a watch? It's time for my dinner." If she were ignored while trying to get your attention as to the time, she would become quite vocal in her demands that you remember the well rehearsed meal routine.
Since I'm able to work from my home office, everyday is bring your dog to work day. I miss Katy reminding me to get up from my desk and take a little break. "Come on Mom, let's go for a short walk and stretch our legs." Since she's been gone, I've forgotten to get up for long stretches and then suffered through back pain as a result.
She always took good care of me.
When Sara went off to college and left us with an empty nest, Bruce was required to travel extensively, leaving me home alone. But, I was never entirely alone. Though devoid of human companionship for long stretches, I always had my loving and cheerful Katy May along with my sweet boy kitty Frodo. She kept loneliness at bay with her never ending love, her cheerful nature, her beautiful smile and her sweet hugs and kisses. More than once her thick yellow fur absorbed the tears falling from my face and she turned my sadness into smiles as she licked the salty moistness from my countenance. Oh, how you loved me.
I don't know how I will enjoy our boat rides this spring without our First Mate, Katy. She was the Queen of the Boat! Next to all her food related words, "boat ride" was her favorite. She was born to live on the lake where she could boat and swim at her pleasure! I'll never forget the hundreds of times we would let her outside only to find her at the door a few minutes later soaking wet, with a huge smile on her face, waiting to come back into the house. Of course, she knew that we would have to towel her off before she could come inside and that was nearly as wonderful as the swim itself. "And, what happens when I go for a swim Mom? That's right, a milk bone treat!"
Good Girl!
I miss her when we walk to the mailbox and come back through the gate. I want to turn around and watch her promptly sit her rear down in the grass as soon as she was inside the gate, waiting for us to "go her way". She stubbornly sat until we turned right off the paved driveway and headed toward the meadow and woods, the path she preferred to take on the way back to the house. We hardly ever refused her insistent request.
I miss my friend when I'm sitting on the closet floor putting on socks and shoes. Katy made it a real challenge to get my shoes on because she strongly viewed sitting on the closet floor as an open invitation for a large yellow Labrador to roll all over my legs and keep me from being able to put on my shoes! And, I always accommodated her by letting her roll on my lap, rubbing her belly and kissing her face. "Good Girl Boo."
We nicknamed her "Boo Boo". I couldn't remember how that got started so I asked Bruce the other day. He reminded me that when she was a puppy she would clumsily run into things and it always looked like it hurt, so we called her "Boo Boo".
I said before that Katy was full of courage and never complained. She had bad hips at an early age, but she never let her pain get in the way of living a full life. She was my brave warrior.
Katy had a heart of gold and lived to please us and make us happy. And, in that she was magnificently successful. I'm thankful we made her happy too - and were blessed to be able to spoil her rotten every day. I thank God for our precious, furry, sometime smelly, itchy, lovable, ridiculously smart, happy, joyful, kind, courageous, beautiful, always shedding, funny, miraculous FRIEND - KATY.
I miss you everyday. You will keep a piece of my heart with you in heaven until we are reunited. I'll always love you Katy.
Be love and be blessed,
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