I intended to put these memory pages in chronological order but in attempting to build the past, I am missing out on the present. Well, here's today's story.
Sweet Sam, my dog, is now 2 1/2 years old and we have yet to have him tutored. Well, needless to say a little female daschund mix on our complex was in her monthly way and was driving Sam, as well as us crazy. He whimpered and whimpered to go outside.
Katherine picked Sam up this morning and took him to the vet. He was not happy to be there. He weighed 29 pounds, had to swallow a pill, and got a shot in his butt. They put him in a kennel, which he hates, and he immediately began barking. I will worry about him all day.
Walter is planning to pick him up between 4:30pm and 5:00pm this afternoon. I can't wait to see my Sam.
The title of this story is an old Far Side comic about a dog excited that he gets to go to the vet and get tutored. Here is a copy for you to enjoy.
Good-bye Brothers and Sisters
country. She was a pretty Little House and she was strong and well built." So begins Virginia Lee Burton's classic The Little House, winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1943. The rosy-pink Little House, on a hill surrounded by apple trees, watches the days go, by from the first apple blossoms in the spring through the winter snows. Always faintly aware of the city's distant lights, she starts to notice the city encroaching on her bucolic existence. First a road appears, which brings horseless carriages and then trucks and steamrollers. Before long, more roads, bigger homes, apartment buildings, stores, and garages surround the Little House. Her family moves out and she finds herself alone in the middle of the city, where the artificial lights are so bright that the Little House can no longer see the sun or the moon. She often dreams of "the field of daisies and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight." Children will be saddened to see the lonely, claustrophobic, dilapidated house, but when a woman 
recognizes her and whisks her back to the country where she belongs, they will rejoice. Young readers are more likely to be drawn in by the whimsical, detailed drawings and the happy ending than by anything Burton might have been implying about the troubling effects of urbanization. 
