Unconditional Love, The life of Bonnie, The boxer

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While we tried our best, our non-human friends were not perfect all the time by any stretch of the imagination. After Bonnie had been with us for a year, It seemed that all the dogs suddenly regressed to the 'untrained' state, in regards to potty rules. This was during a time of constant daily continuous rains that lasted for several weeks with little to no break between the rains, only a changing in intensity. This was a miserable time. The dogs all ended up having to be "retrained", to break them of this regression.

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Accidents Will Happen.
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Thank you so much for sharing Bonnie's life with me, and with your family, friends, and acquaintances. Thank you for your loyalty in reading. It is comforting to know that others are sharing her life with me.

My apologies for the delay. The widow of the friend we had passed away called today. She is elderly and I think starting to suffer confusion and possible dementia. We spent a long time on the phone talking. I fear it won't be too long before she is done with her journey in this world herself. Everyone is failing and passing it seems.

During the 2nd summer (beginning of the 2nd year) we had Bonnie, there was a new arrival in the neighborhood, a new furry critter that seemed bent on enticing the doggies away from the safety of home.

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Foxy Roxy.
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Thank you for your patience with my posting delays. thank you for supporting Bonnie's Memories through your visits to the blog, reading about her life. Your support means so much to me. Thank you.

Today I revisited how Bonnie and the others became our taste testers when we were looking for a good source of good quality, locally raised milk. Properly researched, a cow share can be less expensive, and healthier, than store processed milk, and we wanted to both save money and improve our health. Bonnie and the others were all too eager to be our taste testers.

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Milk. It Does a Body Good.
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Thank you again for sharing Bonnie's life and for your support in this difficult time in transitioning to life without Bonnie.

During the Summer of 2009 (we had taken Bonnie into our home in 2008) we started taking walls out of the house, opening up areas to allow for better heat flow from the wood stoves, and to also allow for better lighting of the house. Initially Bonnie was a bit nervous over it all, but curiosity quickly over powered her anxiety and she busily examined and explored each and every scrap that came from the demolition.

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Destructo Daddy.
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Thank you for the comments and feedback, and the conversations provided in this thread. Thank you again for the encouragement, and your continued patronage of Bonnie's blog. It helps me to keep her memories flowing and her love living.

When we were taking the wall out from between the living room and the kitchen, Bonnie and Lacy would get into various competitions. Competing to take the boards out, believe it or not, and competing for affection and attention. But Bonnie was faithfully by my side, a little helper all the way through the project:

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Carpenter Bonnie.
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I hope this is not boring anyone and I am grateful for all who read it. Thank you for helping me to keep Bonnie's Memory Alive.

The night before last I dreamed of bonnie a full bonafide dream for the first time since her death. Last night I dreamed about some of the circumstances that brought us here where we are, and Bonnie visited my dreams again. Had any one thing gone differently, we never would have known Bonnie.

Had I taken that job in Denver, had my wife allowed her dad to put his house in her name before passing, instead of caring enough for her sisters to avoid that contention, Had I stood my ground with the previous home owner and not swallowed my pride when he became arrogant and angry after I offered less money than the asking price, had I backed out when we realized they lied about the well testing, had any one little thing gone differently, we never would have been where we are now. We never would have met the people that were responsible for us becoming aware of Bonnie's plight.

We are a poor family, having once been well off, now struggling day to day, but making it. AND through it all we have slowly been gaining an understanding of the important things in life. The one common thread that keeps us together is love.

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Bound Together . . . With Love.
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I hope this insight into some of the circumstances of our lives captures your interest and perhaps even provides hope to someone. Thank you again for sharing in Bonnie's life, and ours.

Today's blurb was a bit late getting started. The cv joint bolts broke on the passenger side cv joint on our vw jetta and I had to get the car home this morning. That's what I get for buying cheaper parts. Torqued to specs and still broke. I will be replacing the boots on the cv joint of the old axles and putting them back on this weekend.

Today I shared the completion of the wall removal projects that we had started, and Bonnie's antics, playing hide and seek under the piano when we had them draped with moving blankets. Bonnie did some silly things that were amazingly smart.

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Time to Take a Break.
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My apologies for the delay in getting todays' post out. Thanks again for your patronage of her story. If anyone has any comments at all that you feel would help improve the telling of Bonnie's story, please leave comments on her blog. Thank you so much for sharing in her life.

I will try to keep this quick in case the internet crashes again.

I was working on switching the passenger axle on our one car, until 3:10 a.m local time here. Needless to say, because of that I never rewrote yesterday's blurb for Bonnie's Blog that I had tried to write while on my old trusty android tablet I had gotten as a gift a few years back. Some how I lost the entire post and had to try to recreate it. Which bothers me because as tired as I am, I know I've left a lot of small details out that I thought of yesterday that I am too tired to remember today, but I got the main body recreated and now it's posted. I might modify it later if I do remember the minute details that I had included that are currently missing. I know I am missing something because it's not quite 2/3 of the size of yesterday's attempt.

Today I share with you kasha's belief that she is queen of the castle, and how Her and Bonnie were at odds with that.

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Queen of the Castle.
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Again my apologies. and I hope I get this posted before the internet goes out again (freezing rains probably causing something.) Thanks for sharing and your patience with my occasional spasticity when posting during excitement.

I apologize for the appearance of a delay in posting. I decided to switch the times of Day that I posted as everyone's hectic schedules here are demanding a lot of morning time, local time for me. So I decided to switch to evenings. This puts it at early morning for UK and Europe, and morning to early afternoon for Asia. This appears to comprise the majority of my reading audience.

Today I revisited the time that Bonnie appeared to want to make amends between CLW and me when we were having a verbal joust about finances. Bonnie seemed to know exactly when to interject and how.

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The Tempest Shall Pass.
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Thank you for your patience with me, and your continued sharing of Bonnie's life and memories with me.

Tonight's installment is up. I have been working on it in between helping my wife with a power point project she has due in 12 hours for school.

When we first moved here I couldn't get regular customers for all the previously employed people who are all now self employed and all fighting for the same few scarce customers that won't try to fix things themselves. I couldn't even get a call from wal-mart or even a local fast food restaraunt, as there are literally thousands of people applying for a single position in this area. My wife managed to find me some part time contract work, learning to embroider, and also to digitize for embroidery. The pay was meager, and the work physically demanding, often causing me to be bedridden for extended periods and forcing me to be utilize every medication prescribed to me just to get back to the ability to return to the training the following week. During this period Bonnie would faithfully see me off in the morning, greet me upon returning, and baby sit me as I fell asleep to escape the pain each night.

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Just a Little Sweetness.
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I am trying to make sure that I write this in an interesting fashion so if you have any comments, please please submit them to the blog so that I may know what to change in my writing style, and what to develop further. Thank you so much for your participation and your patience.

Today I shared how Bonnie would stay by my side as I struggled to adjust to a contract job I managed to get the 2nd summer that Bonnie was with us (still just 1 year with us at the time). Bonnie was faithful to be there as I was hurting and she was quick to comfort me when I grimaced or showed pain.

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Sometimes it Takes a Hug.
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It's a simple memory, but one I love. Thank you for sharing with me.

switching the posting to midnight gmt -5 seems to have stalled the readership. I'm going to have to find a way to improve my writing for her.

Every time I tried to write this latest excerpt of Bonnie's life, I broke down and cried. I was going to include a lot more detail but I am missing her terribly. I don't want to let the sadness into the writing so I wrote slowly and cut back on the amount of details in an effort to avoid breaking down to the point that I could not keep it happy.

Bonnie used to encourage us as we exercised, as amazing as that sounds. Berfing at the right times, participating in her own, happy go lucky ways. She was a regular little cheerleader.

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Coach Bonnie.
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My apologies for having to take so long to get this blurb finished. I just miss her so much.

Bonnie had a best buddy, Peterman. Peterman was a cat that CLW's cousin had asked her to take, as they were gone all the time and did not have time for pets. The cat was basically being left alone and they were tired of feeding him, cleaning his litter box, and never interacting with him. They didn't feel it was fair to him nor them to keep him, so we accepted Peterman into our home before we moved to our current home.

When Bonnie came into the house, Peterman was very confident with her, never hissing at her, but never backing down from her. They came to love each other and loved playing together.

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Bestest Buddies.
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I hope you enjoy this part of Bonnie's personality and life. I am happy to be able to share it with you. It gives me joy.

Bonnie developed a habbit of giving everyone "baths". She would jump up into a person's lap and slobber his or her entire face, neck, etc. any skin she could reach with her slobbery tongue.

This was collective recollection of the first day she started this practice, and the events leading up to her first episode of "giving a bath". I had to write this in increments to keep from crying too much so my apologies for the delay.

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Bath Time.
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Thank you for sharing in Bonnie's life.

My own stupidity caused this latest delay. I deleted the master boot record off my computer when I noticed an "unallocated" space on my hard drive while doing routine maintenance. I didn't realize it was the primary linux partition since it didn't simply say "unknown" as usual so I tried to allocate it and format it, and had to spend a fair amount of time recovering things.

Today's post simply covers one of the more routine Day's in Bonnie's life, where she and others had a simple yet funny time with queen kasha, as Kasha spazzed out upon waking, to find that she was surrounded by other animals.

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Just Another Day.
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Thank you for your continued interest in helping me to keep Bonnie's Memories alive.