Last year's New Year's Eve, we celebrated a year without pet tragedy, after a very rough 2006 in which we saw the deaths of two of the "dingoes" (Beth's dachshunds, Ziggy and Agi), our cat Moon, Beth's rescue cat Belle, and several "bappies," or baby cockatiels. Unfortunately, this year saw the loss of Geronimo, the last of the dingoes and my favorite of our dachshunds.
Too, we bade our home in Vienna, VA, behind as the owners and landlords returned from a three-year sojourn in Europe; we'd expected to buy a home in plenty of time to move, but first I encountered an awful time selling my townhome due to a bad buyer, then we discovered just how long a "short sale" can take. And even when everything seemed lined up to reach the finish line, we had our share of last-minute hurdles.
Then we got the Christmas Eve "present" of finding that Beth would be losing her job. (Couple this with the premature end of my primary contract at work--due to the politics of a new director at the government agency funding us--and though I still have good job security, it's a stressful time of transition!)
I think you can see why we're anxious to be putting the bookend onto this year!
But not everything has been so bad. I did get to do a fair amount of birding and have enjoyed the wilds of nature; we did eventually purchase Chateau Papillon and are slowly unpacking and completing some of our renovations. And, of course, we have our health, our love of each other, and our families.
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