Remembering Bo Today

Today was the first time since we lost Bo that I walked the same route we used when I would visit my fiance.  About 5 years at this location. I wondered if people that used to come out of their houses or working in their yards would say something to me like "where's your dog" or "how's Bo".  But instead I walked in the sun after a very snowy weekend remembering all the pee stops he did along the way.  Actually it was too cold and too much snow on the ground for people to be outside.

The one thing I noticed about my walk today was that I walked fast.  Something I hadn't done in a very long time.  It reminded me of when Bo was young.  Bo walked slow.  He deserved to.  He walked with me almost everyday for most of his life at a fast pace.  The last 2-3 years he walked slower;  sniffing, keeping close by me and always panting. But if someone talked to me or made a comment about him during our walk, he would perk up and prance over to them.  He thought everyone loved big black Rottweilers!  I knew he was kind and loveable, but not everyone else thought that.

Even though he had bone cancer, I still did all the things he liked and was used to.  We still continued to walk every day.  Why not?  He wasn't sick . . . at least that's what he thought:).

Every day I look outside the picture window, where I live now, overlooking the park where he used to play.  Today I thought I would take a walk in honor of Bo.  There was sun and tons of snow . . . he loved eating the snow.  Running by piles of it scooping it up like a little bulldozer.  Almost 2 1/2 months after sending Bo to Heaven, I did the walk without crying.  Instead, thinking of him the entire time.  Wishing he could be by my side.  I know he smiled down on me.

I know what would have happened if he was still with us.  He would have run in the door, greeted his daddy sitting in his Lazeboy, breathe all over him, slobber and then back his butt up to him.  He'd then go the kitchen, drink his water and probably look at his food bowl as if to say "hellooooo, feed me!" 

That  W * A * L * K was for you, Bo!!