JP :>    Last Sunday (the 15th of June) was the 1 year
JP :>anniversary of "Baby" passing away.  I was a basket case
JP :>most of the day ...... but, I remember the good times we
JP :>had together and it made me feel a little bit better.
Oh, dear.  I hate those anniversaries!  May 1 is a bad day for me too...but 
the time seems to fly by for some reason.....I still have days when I miss 
Thistle so much I could cry (actually, I do).  There's a spot near the trails 
we used to ride on that I pass every time I go to the grain store, and I 
think of her every time.  I really miss that "together" feeling we always had 
on the trail...not so much in the show ring, though (g).  Just as for you, 
there'll never be another "Baby", for me, there'll never be another Thistle.  
Guess we get one in a lifetime, Jean.  Doesn't mean I don't love Fiddle and 
Shiloh, it's just not the same.
But I do love the memories, and the pictures sure do help.  My favorite of 
her is with other family photos on a table in my living room.  I love to look 
at it whenever I go by it.  It's of her standing in the field the day we 
brought her here.  She's in a patch of black-=eyed Susans and is walking away 
from the camera with her head turned back to look.  I kinda think of it as 
the way she left us...walking through flowers looking back to say "bye". 
Wierd, huh?
Meg  
 
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