Dog Day memories

Every now and then God sends messages or messengers to remind me of what I already know. I was having a hard weekend recently, feeling down and alone and hurting. In my down state, I happened to come across some old photos of my dog Pepper during our vacation in Georgia when she was about three years old. I used to find it amusing that many pets and pet owners start to look and act alike after a certain amount of time. Pepper is gone now, but the picture from our Georgia vacation reminded me that Pepper and I shared some of the same personality quirks. On that vacation, I had placed a large watermelon in a cold stream to cool down. When we went to retrieve it the next day, the watermelon wa