[Dailydrool] The quiet is really quiet

[Mary Wilson via Dailydrool]

Marlene wrote, "...it's the quietness and the emptiness   that gets
to you,you catch yourself trying not to step on them, but wait they  are not
there anymore."

With the departure of Vernon Q Basset, peaceful and in his own time as it
was, that's what we really notice. We're hardly alone -- we've got Paddi B
Basset, of course, and Simba the hopelessly-failed foster Formosan Mountain
Dog, and Tiger and Clio, the cats... but as it turns out, it was Vern who
made the most noise.

He was a real old-man-type basset... there was much snorting and snuffling,
a certain amount of ear-flapping (and he had really heavy, big ears), and
more snorting and snuffling whenever he moved around. Since he followed me
everywhere, except during designated basset sleeping times, this was a lot
of snorting and snuffling. And then there was the familiar  skritch --
silence -- swoosh-- thud of a heavy basset counter cruising... and the loud
trumpeting bark of "breakfast time!" "lunch time" "dinner time!"...

Vernon Q's brains never did actually arrive (or perhaps they were sent to
his former address and not delivered?) but his passing has definitely left
a large and quiet hole.

-- 
​mary.gabriola at gmail.com
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