Fritz and Buddy #1

We just had a noisy thunder shower. I don't want you to think I am a baby but when the thunder and lightening are booming and crashing out there I get in my Mom's lap. I know she can't do anything about it but I feel so much better when she holds me. It's like I really feel she would protect me.
The noise doesn't bother Skeeter but if I get in Mom's lap he wants to get in her lap too. It gets a little crowded. Mom just loves us both.
Yesterday she began writing about Buddy #1. This story is about Fritz and Buddy.

The time came when we were very tired of working such long hours at the Inn. Along came a gentleman who informed us we had the kind of place he had been looking for. One thing led to another and we sold it to him for three times what we paid for it.
We went on a trip to search for a sailboat that we could live on.Gas was hard to get so many people had switched to sailing instead of power boating. It was hard to find what we wanted.
Eventually we did find a nice sloop. We packed up what we needed plus two large dogs.It didn't take us long to learn that you cannot unhousebreak a dog. When they had to relieve themselves they jumped overboard and swam for shore. My husband tried to show them it was OK to pee on the bow of the boat. They just looked at him like he was going to catch it from Me.
After several days of taking them to shore and/or pulling them out of the water in the dead of night, we decided this would never work.
We took our dogs to our friend the dog warden. He promised to keep them himself if he could not find suitable homes.
The good news was that he found excellent homes for both dogs and he kept track of their well being for a while.
Fritz went to live with a gentleman who owned a truck and Buddy#1 went to live with a family that had two little girls. They fell in love with Buddy while they were on vacation near our friends cottage. Their father came down to see our friend and begged him to sell Buddy. Our friend told him Buddy was not for sale but was free to a good home. Two little girls were happy and so was Buddy.
We missed them both but we were relieved that they both had good homes.
We were dogless again.

Today's quote is by Gloria Steinem.

"The problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."