Category: Status

I want to thank everyone for their notes…

I want to thank everyone for their notes and emails about our dear friend Hugh who has been staying with us for the past 3 weeks. We are now preparing to send him home to his maker. Because of the season his family will not be able to FLY in for services. He will be remembered as an example of the ethical and moral treatment of life.
Keeper found a fly outside, in the snow, shivering – you know those things that bite us and we kill when they are in our house. Daddy found it amazing that the thing was living in the snow so they brought it inside thinking it was go…ing to die within minutes, put it in a bottle with some very small holes poked in it and they watched the fly. Then it grew! Then I had to feed it! That was about 3 weeks ago. Luckily flies only live about 15 to 25 days.
But it left our house in an ethical dilemma. Flies are our enemy, but we saved it’s life anyway (that was good). We couldn’t put it back outside because it would die, but it had to live in a small bottle. What kind of life is it to spend it in a small bottle? See our ethical dilemma? What do we teach our children? Is life only precious if you find the species precious? Is life not worth living if you can live it to its full potential? We don’t kill off our elderly or handicapped, we save the lives of 2 legged dogs and blind cats, what makes the flies life less valuable than our own?
It’s our life as a Star Trek / M*A*S*H parity. Which is where his name comes from “I Hugh”

OH then the woman in the smoke filled ca…

OH then the woman in the smoke filled car said to me “Yeah, she’s antsy to get out” REALLY!?!??! Do you think that may have something to do with the fact she’s gagging to death in your car!
It is illegal in Maine to smoke with a child in the car no matter how you have the windows, but with the windows open Treasure was getting sleet in her face as she was trying to climb out of the window because she couldn’t breathe. The car was filled with a smoky haze, it was so strong it wasn’t that someone had just smoked, it was that someone had smoked in the car for 5 years with the widows up – that is how strong the stench was.