Remembering Patrick

I wrote the following soon after my heart was broken and I lost my faithful friend of 15 years. It has been almost a year now, and I still miss my little dog.

“Hi. I’m Patrick.”

Silence.

“Hello? Can you hear me?”

Silence.

“Oh. That’s right. I forgot, again,” Patrick said.

Patrick shook his whole body and with a wildly wagging tail transformed himself from a white and gold cocker spaniel into a majestic angel in the midst of thousands of barking dogs, the sound thundering on the heavenly meadow. At exactly 3:00, the pack of dogs quieted and sat at attention before the Pearly Gates waiting for today’s arrivals.

Saint Peter stood at the Pearly Gates holding the Book of Life. He watched the pack of dogs patiently waiting and spotted Patrick in their midst. Shaking his head at the young angel he beckoned Patrick to join him at the Gates.

Patrick vanished from the pack and appeared next to Saint Peter, solemnly bowing his head.

“Playing with the dogs again Patrick?” Saint Peter teased, an amused smile on his face.

“Yes sir. I enjoy running with the dogs. They are so joyful and at peace.

Word Fascination

Peradventure - possibly or perhaps; uncertainty or doubt as to whether something is true.

Billy’s claim that he witnessed the Great Fresno Train Robbery was surely peradventure.

Word Fascination

I had to look this one up. Dilatory - slow, tardy, remiss, behindhand, or slack. As opposed to Diligent - hardworking, industrious, assiduous, meticulous, conscientious and thorough.

Jason hid out in the barn with Moo and the goats. He sat in the goats' feeder with Moo butting his shoulder on the left and a couple of goats chewing on the pull strings of his hoodie on the right. Report cards were sent home today. Jason was ashamed to admit he was once again dilatory with his homework and it showed on his report card. Uncle Mike was not happy.

Word Fascination and Spelling Lesson

The dog's hiney wagged furiously. Is it "hiney" or "hinny?"

A "hiney" is the two rounded buttocks (one is buttock) on the posterior of the pelvic region.

Although a "hinny" is the offspring of a female donkey and male horse.

You learn something new every day. Happy reading and writing!

Word Fascination

Hung or hanged? Do you know the difference?

Hung is the regular past tense version of hang.

Hanged on the other hand, is only used when indicating a person is to be put to death by hanging. An act of execution is always hanged. Things are hung, but people are hanged.

Mork hung his head out of the car window. Dogs will do that.

Mario was sentence to be hanged by the neck until dead after he was found guilty for the murder of his brother; he cheated the hangman when he hanged himself in his cell.

Word Fascination

Chicanery -  deception, trickery, verbiage, talk, flimflam, waffle, nonsense, underhandedness, double-dealing, smoke and mirrors.

The student body was in shock. Over the long weekend someone had painted a mural across the lockers depicting the Thanksgiving Day turkey on the chopping block along with its hooded executioner.

"That took a lot of work," Jason said, stooping to get a closer look at the mural.

"Maybe, but it is destruction of public property," Eric mumbled, shaking his head. "Someone is going to get in trouble for this."

"Yeah. It'll probably be us; my logo is in the corner," Jon said, pointing to the corner of the mural.

Once again, the Bandit's chicanery found the Angels in the principal's office.

Word Fascination

Todays word is NONSENSICAL which means being ridiculous, absurd, illogical or silly.

Jason tends to be NONSENSICAL; he talks to cows.